Colleges are businesses, period, and once you see it this way, you will not only completely understand our models, but most of what you will encounter in the college admissions process will also make much more sense (not total sense…, just more sense). For example, IBM’s culture is vastly different from Cisco Systems, and in such, they seek similar, but quite different employees when hiring. If smart, the job applicant, or in this case the student, is aware of this as well. Applying to college, and being accepted by the college, is the exact same process.
