How Much Should you Worry about College Admission?

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Are you worried that you, a friend, or a family member may not get into a good college?

That’s not a surprise when you think of the scare tactics educators (and parents) sometimes use to motivate students, or all the newspaper and magazine articles about the rapidly growing number of applications some colleges are now receiving.

It’s true that applications are up, particularly at the most selective colleges. But that fact, taken alone, can be misleading. More important is the reality that only a small percentage of colleges and universities are highly selective.

Stanford, NYU, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and schools like them are denying more students than ever before.

Although such institutions typically receive applications from top students, their acceptance rates are extremely low. Recently, some top tier colleges and universities have admitted just eleven or twelve percent of their applicants.

Furthermore, it is not uncommon for first tier colleges to turn away valedictorians.

Students with perfect ACT or SAT results are also frequently denied admission to top schools. The truth is that no student, however strong, is assured admission to a Yale, a Harvard, a Princeton or a similarly competitive college or university.

That’s the bad news. The good news is that only students applying to the very most selective colleges have to worry about ten or twenty percent acceptance rates. And only they have to worry that SAT or ACT scores in the top five percent may not be good enough.

No magic or superhuman achievements are required to get into a good college or university. Although Harvard may admit just nine or ten percent of its applicants, at most colleges the percentage is closer to seventy.

So, don’t let high anxiety ruin your college search. If you apply to at least five colleges, including two safety schools; colleges where average freshman test scores and high school grade point averages are below yours, you have nothing to fear.

Daniel Z. Kane is a veteran professional educator. He authored and maintains one website on online degrees another on online colleges and scholarships, and more than a half dozen additional education sites.

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