Greenes' Guides to Educational Planning: Inside the Top Colleges: Realities of Life and Learning in America's Elite Colleges
Greenes' Guides to Educational Planning: Inside the Top Colleges: Realities of Life and Learning in America's Elite Colleges Greenes' Guides to Educational Planning: Inside the Top Colleges: Realities of Life and Learning in America's Elite Colleges OTHER ARTICLES The competition for admission to the best colleges keeps getting tougher.There are 12.5 million college undergraduates. Fewer than 90,000 attend the top twenty-five colleges.Ten prominent institutions -- eight Ivy League schools, Standford, and MIT -- enrolled 1 percent of all entering freshmen, representing one-third of the highest academic achievers and test-takers in the nation.There has been a substantial rise in applications to elite colleges and universities. In 1999Harvard received 19,000 applications -- including 2,900 from high school valedictorians -- for the 1,600 spaces for the class of 2003Stanford received more than 17,000 applications for 1,550 places and Princeton received 14,875 applications...