Soothing Stats
For anyone requiring hard facts and tables full of reassuring data to quell their fears concerning college admissions and the probability of not getting in anywhere, I have the goods. Actually, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has the goods. I heart data; I find cold, hard facts to be extremely soothing.
According to the most recent data:
In 2007-08, there were 6,706 Title IV postsecondary institutions in the United States and other jurisdictions. Among these, 2,754 were classified as 4-year institutions, 2,191 were 2-year institutions, and the remaining 1,761 were less-than-2-year institutions (table1).
See? Plenty of schools to go around. As I’ve said before, there are only eight Ivy League schools, so not every high school student applying to college is going to get into one of those. But, odds are, everyone will get in somewhere.
Posted by Alexa Harrington
