Can you remind me why my DC will not get into the same schools I did?

[Anonymous]

(HYPSM)

Even if they are as intelligent and hard-working as I was?

Acceptancd rates are halved from 10% when I applied to 5% now. Can you remind me why that is?

Sorry, I’ve been out of college for 15 years and now have ES kids and don’t understand why it is so much more competitive all of a sudden.

[Anonymous]

It’s a sad statement that a HYPSM grad can’t puzzle out the math on this.

[Anonymous]

Bigger pool of applicants?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a sad statement that a HYPSM grad can’t puzzle out the math on this.

+1

OP: Why are you focused on just these 5 schools. Times have changed. There are dozens of outstanding schools and about 2 or 3 hundred great schools.

Your kids are not you; let them develop their own interests and their own likes and dislikes.

[Anonymous]

More people are going to college now but schools are the same size

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a sad statement that a HYPSM grad can’t puzzle out the math on this.

+2 Awkward post, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a sad statement that a HYPSM grad can’t puzzle out the math on this.

ALDC with an easy major

[Anonymous]

The first page of this essay explains it pretty well.

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/

[Anonymous]

Deep in the last century, I got into Carnegie Mellon engineering after getting decent (not great) grades at a good (not great) public high school in Pittsburgh. My teens are technically minded but I recognize that they have little chance of getting into the same school. Getting decent grades at a decent public high school in our area simply isn't going to get them in.

The stakes are higher, the competition is much much tougher and Carnegie Mellon, like a lot schools, is drawing from a much larger pool of applicants. The US has a large share of the most desirable schools on the planet. Yes, more Americans are applying to American colleges than a generation ago. That probably goes triple for the rest of the world. And all of these kids are smarter than I was.

And then there's the cost of going to Carnegie Mellon in 2023.....yeah, that's not going to happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Deep in the last century, I got into Carnegie Mellon engineering after getting decent (not great) grades at a good (not great) public high school in Pittsburgh. My teens are technically minded but I recognize that they have little chance of getting into the same school. Getting decent grades at a decent public high school in our area simply isn't going to get them in.

The stakes are higher, the competition is much much tougher and Carnegie Mellon, like a lot schools, is drawing from a much larger pool of applicants. The US has a large share of the most desirable schools on the planet. Yes, more Americans are applying to American colleges than a generation ago. That probably goes triple for the rest of the world. And all of these kids are smarter than I was.

And then there's the cost of going to Carnegie Mellon in 2023.....yeah, that's not going to happen.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:(HYPSM)

Even if they are as intelligent and hard-working as I was?

Acceptancd rates are halved from 10% when I applied to 5% now. Can you remind me why that is?

Sorry, I’ve been out of college for 15 years and now have ES kids and don’t understand why it is so much more competitive all of a sudden.

1) general population growth, there are simply more applicants from the US
2) more international applicants
3) the number of seats/beds at the schools have remained the same

add to it

4) common app - easier to apply
5) more diverse applicants, with priority on diversity and first generation applicants
6) grade inflation - more "A" students who think they are viable applicants
7) test optional/numbers inflation...what was a 1500 in 1085 or 1995 is not the same as it is now, many more test takers are scoring higher, and that is if they even submit scores

[Anonymous]

There’s more competition and more kids matriculating in college. It’s a numbers game.

[Anonymous]

you are not the same person

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:(HYPSM)

Even if they are as intelligent and hard-working as I was?

Acceptancd rates are halved from 10% when I applied to 5% now. Can you remind me why that is?

Sorry, I’ve been out of college for 15 years and now have ES kids and don’t understand why it is so much more competitive all of a sudden.

Not all of a sudden. It has been gradual all along, since well before you were in HS. There are roughly the same number of slots at each of the elite schools and the population has risen or risen faster than the growth. Plus, more of the population is applying.

[Anonymous]

Thank the boomers for destroying the USA standard of living