Top colleges' admissions rates at all-time low

Top colleges are proudly announcing record low admissions rates for freshman applying for the Fall of 2012, the Washington Post reported.
This number comes from the number of students who apply vs. the number of students each college accepts and is increasingly more important as rankings of each colleges do the same, according to the Washington Post.
A long time top-ranked college, Harvard's ranks dropped for the seventh consecutive year in a row, reaching an all-time low of 5.9 percent, the Fiscal Times reported.
Along with tough competitions at home, students are increasingly having to worry about international students, the Fiscal Times reported.