{"id":208,"date":"2010-11-07T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cms\/?p=208"},"modified":"2014-11-19T17:07:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T22:07:59","slug":"application-inflation-when-is-enough-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/application-inflation-when-is-enough-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Application Inflation: When is Enough Enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The New York Times<\/strong> by Eric Hoover &mdash; The numbers keep rising, the superlatives keep glowing. Each year, selective colleges promote their application totals, along with the virtues of their applicants.<\/p>\n<p>For this fall&#8217;s freshman class, the statistics reached remarkable levels. Stanford received a record 32,022 applications from students it called &#8220;simply amazing,&#8221; and accepted 7 percent of them. Brown saw an unprecedented 30,135 applicants, who left the admissions staff &#8220;deeply impressed and at times awed.&#8221; Nine percent were admitted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/07\/education\/edlife\/07HOOVER-t.html?_r=1&#038;scp=1&#038;sq=eric%20hoover&#038;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\">Read the complete article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times by Eric Hoover &mdash; The numbers keep rising, the superlatives keep glowing. Each year, selective colleges promote their application totals, along with the virtues of their applicants. For this fall&#8217;s freshman class, the statistics reached remarkable levels. Stanford received a record 32,022 applications from students it called &#8220;simply amazing,&#8221; and accepted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}