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insidehighered.com - 19 days ago
Inside Higher Ed
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Everybody knows that college is harder to get into today than ever before, right? That's why students flock to test-prep courses, and spend countless hours trying to transform themselves into what they imagine admissions deans want. Admissions deans have tried to play down the hype, and just ...

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Marginal Revolution:  Why it's harder than before to get into your favorite college

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Why it's harder than before to get into your favorite college
Marginal Revolution — ... has had profound implications on the peers whom college students experience, the resources invested in their education, the tuition they pay, and the subsidies they enjoy. An important finding is that, even though tuition has been rising rapidly at the most selective schools, the deal students get there has arguably improved greatly. The result is that the "stakes" associated with admission to these colleges are much higher now than in the past. Here is one summary of the paper.  The ungated version is here.  Note that the ...

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EconLog: Library of Economics and Liberty — Inside Higher Ed reports , A small number of colleges have become much more competitive over recent decades, according to Caroline M. Hoxby, an economist at Stanford University. But her study -- published by the National Bureau of Economic Research -- finds that as many as half of colleges have become substantially less competitive over time. ...

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