D "Op-Ed: Ivy League schools are the Kardashians of higher ed. Don't fixate on their admission rates" by Brian Rosenberg, published @ latimes.com (4/19/21) Brian Rosenberg is an American academic administrator and a scholar on Charles Dickens. He is president in residence of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and president emeritus of Macalester College. (1) Annual coverage of the college admissions process is in full swing. Headlines call attention to booming applications and plummeting admit rates, especially among Ivy League universities and their peers. One headline in particular stayed with me: "A Great Admissions Year, for Some." (2) I keep asking myself the same question over and over: Great for whom? (3) Certainly, it is not great for the 96.6% of applicants who were rejected by Harvard, or the 96.3% rejected by Columbia, or the 96% rejected by MIT, Princeton and Yale. It is also not great for the 92% rejected by Williams, Swarthmore and Colby. (4) It is not great for the cause of college access