Yale Daily News

In other news, YDN reporter remains willfully ignorant of harvard and princeton's complete lack of early admissions

I think it is time for Yale and other first rank schools to do what Yale did for the first group of female applicants in 1968-69: Yale sent a screening application first, then selected applicants were sent a full application. I remember being honored just to have made the cut, to receive the application.

US News & World Report has so skewed the application and admissions procedures that the situation is totally out of hand. It should not be standard practice that high school seniors apply to so many colleges, and it is absurd that there are over 20,000 applicants for a school with fewer than 2000 in a class.

It is hard to believe that college admissions officers - presumably all smart people - have permitted this situation to develop as a result of the way US News ranks colleges. It is not good for the top rank colleges, and it is worse for the hundreds of good colleges all over the country.

@#2: Right on! It would benefit high school seniors to know if they even have a chance before they fill out lengthy apps. And the extent of the whole "college ranking" thing is kind of ridiculous...

Of course we all think this ranking system is ridiculous. That is once we were admitted to the top school on the list. Us at the top certainly feel sorry for the chaps at the public schools. If we weren't so hungry for the ratings to prove our intellectual gifts in being accepted, there would be no ranking system.