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Baum, Sandy; McPherson, Michael S. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2011
The world of higher education is a world of sorting, selecting, and ranking--on both sides of the market. Colleges select students to recruit and then to admit; students choose where to apply and which offer to accept. The sorting process that gets the most attention is in the higher reaches of the market, where it is not too much to say that…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Admission, Access to Education, Scaling