{"id":74884,"date":"2021-04-13T10:21:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T14:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=74884"},"modified":"2021-04-13T14:02:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:02:39","slug":"harvard-and-its-peers-should-be-embarrassed-about-how-few-students-they-educate-selingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/04\/13\/harvard-and-its-peers-should-be-embarrassed-about-how-few-students-they-educate-selingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard and its peers should be embarrassed about how few students they educate [Selingo]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harvard and its peers should be embarrassed about how few students they educate<\/strong><\/a> — from washingtonpost.com by Jeff Selingo
\nTheir minuscule admissions rates are a sign of failure, not success.<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

Harvard\u2019s\u00a0announcement this past week<\/a>\u00a0that its acceptance rate fell to an all-time low of just 3.4 percent will be viewed by some alumni as a triumph \u2014 a sign of their alma mater\u2019s popularity and prestige among high school grads. And some alumni of elite institutions like\u00a0Yale<\/a>\u00a0(4.6 percent),\u00a0Brown<\/a>\u00a0(5.4 percent) and\u00a0Princeton<\/a>\u00a0(4 percent) may feel the same glow of pride. In actuality, these numbers are signs of institutional failure.<\/p>\n

That some 55,000\u00a0applicants were denied the chance to attend Harvard \u2014 which, with its\u00a0$42 billion endowment<\/a>, is fully capable of serving more than\u00a01,640 students in an incoming class<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 is no cause for celebration. Instead, the ever-declining proportion of applicants accepted at such top-ranked universities should spur them to consider making their freshman classes substantially larger.\u00a0Such a move would be especially appropriate \u2014 and, perhaps, more imaginable \u2014 after a pandemic year when universities across the country have had to reconceive education in a multitude of ways.<\/p>\n

From DSC:<\/span><\/em>
\nI couldn’t agree more. These types of schools should pursue a much more noble goal and seek to educate the masses. Make far larger contributions in order to make the world a better place to live in. Open up the doors. Stop recreating the caste system we have in the U.S.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Also see:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The Endless Sensation of Application Inflation<\/strong><\/a> — from chronicle.com by Eric Hoover<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

The numbers get bigger each year. Now they\u2019ve reached a mesospheric level of madness.<\/p>\n

Yes, we\u2019re talking about application totals at highly selective colleges, a fixation for a jittery subset of the planet. In the 2020-21 admissions cycle, many of the final tallies broke records \u2014 and, surely, record numbers of hearts. The more applicants that apply to a hyper-competitive college, the more rejections it must deliver.<\/p>\n

But what do such metrics really tell us? What, if anything, does the annual OMG-ing over these statistics add to up to? Let\u2019s pause here and remember that\u00a0application inflation\u00a0isn\u2019t new: Acceptance rates at many institutions have been plummeting for years. Also, a 35-percent increase like the one Tufts University\u00a0just saw\u00a0didn\u2019t mean there was a 35-percent increase in highly qualified applicants with a prayer of getting in, or a 35-percent increase in applicants who meet each of the institution\u2019s many needs.<\/p>\n

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Harvard and its peers should be embarrassed about how few students they educate — from washingtonpost.com by Jeff Selingo Their minuscule admissions rates are a sign of failure, not success. Excerpt: Harvard\u2019s\u00a0announcement this past week\u00a0that its acceptance rate fell to an all-time low of just 3.4 percent will be viewed by some alumni as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[306,3,560,480,206,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-higher-education","category-parents-guardians","category-society","category-trends","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74884"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74893,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74884\/revisions\/74893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}