Elite Colleges Letting in Fewer Students

In a New York Times Article titled, Elite Colleges Reporting Record Lows in Admission, Ivy league colleges state they have let in far less students than ever before. They blame this on the increased competition between students, larger number of students(which is supposedly going to peak this year), the ease of online applications, expanded financial aid packages, aggressive recruiting of a broader range of young people, and ambitious students’ applying to ever more colleges.
America goes on and on about how awful the state of education in this country is and then i hear that Harvard only let in 7.1% of the 27,000 plus students that applied,93 of every 100 applicants, refusing some with perfect SAT test scores. Americans have wanted their students to achieve this kind of success and now that they are ready for higher education, with good transcripts, they cant go to their schools because there are too many students applying. College's should be expanding just like everything else in our growing society and it disgusts me that schools would turn someone devoted to learning down. I know its hard to get into these schools, and the students rejected know how hard it is to get into these schools, because instead of partying and having fun through school they were studying, and what do they have to show for it? The same state college as the guy who drank beer all through high school. I know im over generalizing but this is wrong, students should be able to be challenged by higher education not tossed aside because there are too many of them.

Columbia accepted 8.7%
Brown and Dartmouth 13%

“We love the people we admitted, but we also love a very large number of the people who we were not able to admit,” said William R. Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid at Harvard College. (Im sure that makes the rejected feel better!)
"Ten years ago, slightly fewer than 12,000 students applied to Yale, compared with the 22,813 who applied this year, Mr. Brenzel said. Yale’s admittance rate — the proportion of applicants offered admission — was nearly 18 percent in 1998, more than double the rate this year."
So when less kids applied more got in, the same amount should be getting in no matter how many actually apply...
And where is the pat on the back for a job well done for the kid with the perfect SAT but no Ivy league school....MAKE YOUR COLLEGES BIGGER TO FIT THE DEMANDS OF THE POPULATION!