“This success, however, carries a cost. As the number of applicants has soared in recent years, premier schools admit as few as one in 10 students, a far more selective rate compared with a generation ago. To make room for an academically borderline development case, a top college typically rejects nine other applicants, many of whom might have greater intellectual potential.”
The first sentence is a correct statement. The second sentence is erroneous (one other student doesn’t get an offer, not nine). It’s not a wonder Lereah and his cronies get to manipulate how statistiucs are presented all of the time. In general, folks in the media appear to have pathetic analytical skills.
