Ontario university applications rose an additional 5% above the projected 14,000 additional applicants, and several universities are now voicing their strategies on how they will handle the numbers without additional funding. Wilfrid Laurier says the increase will certainly hurt the quality of education. Half the schools, such as UWO and UGuelph, cannot possibly accommodate additional students and will have to be more stringent when chosing their 2007 freshmen.  |