[NuclearFart]

It's a good thing thing to have higher admission standards. Letting in alot people who are more likely to fail in the first year or later, having poor quality students and so forth, cheapens the degree of those who came before them. Higher end institutions should strive to maintain some quality selection process, and having a limited supply of spots allows this. There's always DeVry for those who don't like it.

This article only talks about the hypothetical kid having 80% to get in, but then leaves it open to the reader to assume that all those who were rejected were of the same caliber. How many had 65% and applied?

Think admission standards are unreasonable here? Go over to China or Japan to see what real academic competition is like.