Difficulty getting into College, part II

Here's another great article that chronicles the increasing difficulty of getting into selective colleges. "Admissions Anxiety Reaches New Regions" (Washington Post/AP) describes how college admissions stress is expanding beyond the traditional locations of California, the Northeast and MidAtlantic into the South and Mid-west. It cites lots of statistics and anecdotes to vividly paint this picture. For example the Kaplan's college test prep business in the South has grown 7x the national average, and the number of private college counselors (a proxy for admissions anxiety) in Minnesota has grown from one to eleven in the past 5 years. It concludes by citing a statistic that at the same time reflects the basic underlying trend cited in my earlier post -- and is less than encouraging news for families with pre-high schoolers: "Every state in the South except Louisiana will have more high school seniors graduating in 10 years than today."

If you live you live somewhere far from Boston or Palo Alto and have felt extra stressed lately, this article may help explain why.

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