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The Other Side of Admissions Angst: For Students, Getting into Their First-Choice College Isn't So Hard After All
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Hoover, Eric – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Debating annual front-page articles that focus almost exclusively on Ivy League colleges and other highly competitive institutions that reject the vast majority of their applicants, the author reports that, in 2007, 80 percent of current first-year students were admitted to their top-choice college, according to an annual survey of more than…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Selective Admission, College Admission, Administrators
Colleges Face Tough Sell to Freshmen, Survey Finds
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Hoover, Eric – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Freshmen are more concerned about academic quality and affordability than they have been in decades, according to an annual survey conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles. Sixty-three percent of students said academic reputation was a very-important factor in selecting a college, an…
Descriptors: Reputation, College Choice, College Freshmen, Educational Quality