Why It’s Tougher to Get into College
July 13th, 2007While I know this blog is primarily about online high schools, I read this short article in Parade Magazine last weekend and the title was, wait for it, Why It’s Tougher to Get into College.
Because of those darn baby boomers, there are 800,000 more high school graduates this year than there was just ten years ago. Oh yeah, and that 4.0 may not cut it. There was a time that should have enabled you admittance to almost anywhere.
Princeton University this spring rejected 4,200 students. Actually, truth be known, they rejected significantly more than that. The 4,200 are just those who had a 4.0 GPA. This is not uncommon for big name schools. Regardless of GPA, UCLA turned down 38,000 applicants.
So, this tells me that you need more than a good GPA. What does it tell you?
