The academic and social expectations of the individuals who are applying are at the highest standard in the province and across the country. The young people we are attracting to RMC, have high academic averages, are active in sports, are volunteering in their community, and have good social awareness. The recruits we get are quite extraordinary and it's always been like this for RMC.
As I was telling the Auditor General earlier, I remember when I was entering university, women were not allowed to go to RMC. Two years later, they were. The standards for the people who were applying then, Ontario scholars as an example, are the same today. We attract the best of the best. It's not people who just want a free ride.
The program is too difficult. Between the academic, athletic, leadership expectations, and just the rigour of military life, nobody is going to come to the college for a free education when you have to get up every morning to do PT, get dressed, go to class, put on a uniform and march around the campus, and expect you have required sports every afternoon and required study time. That structure doesn't attract people who are just looking for easy and free.