January 18, 2008
Policy Makers Must Recognize Higher Education's 2-Tiered System
The news media have extensively documented how many college applicants receive rejection letters from the country's most-elite higher-education institutions. The coverage has focused on the effort and expense that students and their parents put forth, only to be turned away.
While many private colleges and universities have always been highly selective, what has changed is the degree of selectivity — at the Ivy Leagues and their ilk as well as at lesser-known institutions.
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