College counselors (and regular readers of this blog) won’t be surprised by this news. But for everyone else, here’s a little something from this week’s Inside Higher Ed:

“Every spring, the articles appear about how the admission rates to Harvard University or Stanford University have hit record lows and how it’s just impossible to get into college these days. Meanwhile, other articles say there are so many more applications to college that it must be impossible for anyone not destined to win a Nobel Prize or an Olympic medal to find a space…For those scared by the hype, the National Association for College Admission Counseling offers a corrective: a survey of colleges that shows that, in fact, most colleges admit most applicants, and the rarified world of Ivy League admissions is almost completely irrelevant to what goes on in most of higher education — even when the survey focuses on four-year colleges and not the open-access world of community colleges.”

You can read the article, and the rest of the good news, here.