IHEs Asking If It Is Time To Expand Enrollment

That reluctance to grow has been true of many selective colleges that want to sustain their genteel scale. But with ever more students pressing at their gates, admissions officers find themselves having to reject what Anthony W. Marx, Amherst’s president, calls “astonishing applicants.”  The most elite institutions are accepting historic lows of 10 percent of applicants, and next year the sieve should become excruciatingly finer with applications from baby boomers’ offspring expected to crest. Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/education/26education.html?ex=1356325200&en=a36e94659c9bf2a4&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss