Early adopters of direct admissions expect record class sizes

Letting everyone into your for-profit school almost always results in articles like these being written, usually by a ghost writer, to justify the greedy act. The fact is, open admissions is a great idea if the school is cheap or free. Thats the idea behind community colleges. Nothing new there. When a for profit school charges significant tuition, a great barrier is there that qualifies as an admission hurdle anyway. If publicly funded student loans are part of the equation as well, then the obvious question becomes who pays for all the defaults when you let anyone in who can breathe on glass? This article simplifies and boils down an issue that is far more complex than presented. Its about capacity, regulation of loans programs, and affordability…Not just a simplified concept of “equality.” All people paying to go is not in reality equality as some grew up with wealth, parents who owned yachts etc. others will be broken by just keeping up with payments. That in itself is not a great opportunity but a burden and tragic result of predatory schools hardselling large swathes of unprepared students on ROI that is not there.