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[tbontob]

Originally posted by capnq:

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Generally, only the top percentile of high school students go to college which makes the competition for marks much more fierce.

How many do you mean by "top percentile"?

In the US, 61.7% of the graduating class of 2001 entered college the following fall. (The Web search I did to dig this up produced an URL too long to repost.)

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capnq, I do not have a percentage in mind, in part because the standards are different for each type of institution. Like compare universities where there are admittance standards and junior college where if Fyron is right they admit anyone.

I never attended college, but I did attend three universities to obtain three degrees. With faculties like Arts and Science, the standards are not too stringent. Faculties like Commerce, Law, and Medicine the standards are very high.

There is a strong (but not exact) correlation between good marks and the confidence the student has to enter university.

Students in the bottom 50 percentile are much less likely to apply to go to university than the students in the top 50 percentile. And of the applicants, the ones in the top 50 percentile are much more likely to be accepted than the ones in the bottom 50 percentile.

Of course, I am asuuming that all things are equal with the student in the top percentile and the student in the bottom percentile. Things like being a mature student or having course credits can shift the odds more in favour of the bottom percentile student being accepted.