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Discuss “Enrollment up, preparation down”

The number of students enrolling at four-year universities in the United States has risen 18 percent over the past 10 years, and will continue to rise, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education?s 2005 almanac.

That?s bad news for current and future high school students who will face higher admissions standards as colleges are flooded with applications.

According to Michael Steidel, the director of admissions at Carnegie Mellon, ?most students are submitting seven to nine applications now, compared to the past four to six.?

This comes at a time when the ACT, formerly the American College Testing Program, stated in an August press release that ?too many students are not taking the right kind

of courses in high school that prepare them...

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