EDITORIAL Strength in numbers

Let the flood gates open.

Since the college has enlisted the services of a marketing firm and restructured the admissions office and the way it operates, the total number of applicants has more than doubled.

In a market as rich and competitive as the northeast, a school having as much to offer as Cabrini was simply in need of some guidance to help manifest its true potential.

There are several prospective advantages to such a dramatic increase in applicants. First, it should be understood that the college does not plan on using this tactic to dramatically increase the size of the student body. On the contrary, they plan on accepting just about the same number of students, both transfer and first-year students, as last year.

The fruits of the more aggressive and personal methods being employed by the admissions office should be plentiful. One of their objectives is to diversify the student body from a regional point of view. Rather than concentrating completely on students from the traditional feeder schools like Monsignor Bonner, Cardinal O'Hara or Archbishop Prendergast, the need to dip into markets like Ohio, Maryland and New Jersey has been recogniz.ed.

Another payoff, in the long run, will be a more prestigious academic institution. With so many more students to choose from, those with more impressive academic credentials will be the ones who are accepted. This will eventually lead to a more academically competitive student body.

As the institution reaches this point, it will be responsible for making sure the difficulty of the course work increases in accordance with the aptitude of those attending.

The end result should be a more superior atmosphere for learning and experiencing life.