shaping up to be an insane admissions year?
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Anonymous
The purple bar graph only goes up to fall 2021 admissions, so that’s not true for DC’s school. |
Anonymous
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Last year saw an increase in applications due to test optional policies. With colleges still test optional, the number of applications to top schools will probably be similar.
Last year, many top colleges accepted too many students - lots of overenrollment. It would make sense if they adjusted their acceptances downward a smitch this year. The one positive difference for this year's seniors is that there may not be that chunk of COVID deferrals. |
Anonymous
| My kid is a senior in FCPS. It seems like half the senior class is applying ED to UVA and the other half is applying ED to VT |
Anonymous
Which hopefully helps my ED to WM kid. |
Anonymous
which hs OP and which college? |
Anonymous
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Let's resist the urge to get riled up here. Admissions is tough every year. I've been in this forum for a while and have seen the words "blood bath" every single year.
If you only look at the top 20/30/50 schools, you'd think no one gets into college. If you look at the rest (where deadlines are being extended because colleges didn't hit their goals), you'll know that everything is going to be fine. |
Anonymous
True true! |
Anonymous
| Admission is tough every year. And maybe some people don't notice an acceptance rate that goes from, say, 7 to 3%. But people do notice when rates at good-but-not-top-10 schools go from, say, the mid 20s into the teens, and so forth. It isn't just the narrow group of top 10 schools that saw application increases under test optional policies, it was most schools in the top 100. That's just the nature of test optional policies, more apps, lower rates. |
Anonymous
Indeed! GL to your W&M hopeful! |
Anonymous
It’s been like that for a long time. UMD fills 97% of the class with EA. They are also strict about all of the supporting materials being in by Nov 1. |
Anonymous
Right. If you have been reading this forum for years, each year's parents say it is especially hard for their kid/this year's class. I know COVID was unusual, but I have never really seen anyone post that their year was typical of most years. Yet, when you see the pattern of posts each year, the same themes repeat. |
Anonymous
| How can anyone say last year wasn’t different when, because of test optional, many if not most schools received a lot more applications for the same number of spots? |
Anonymous
You want the counselors to say "No you can't apply there Bobby already called it"? No you don't. |
Anonymous
No, I meant that my DC is at a large public (not that they applied ED to a large public- they applied to a SLAC). |
Anonymous
It's true that apps have been rising for years. But, if I recall, birthrate high mark was 2000, steady but flat since, and should be falling in a few more years. Test optional did cause a significant jump for high school class of 2021. The largest example I'm aware of is >60% increase at MIT. Most top-50s saw something like a 20-30% increase. With the same policies in place this year, it would make sense for app numbers to be similar. One wrinkle, the uncertainty last admission season seemed (anecdotally) to cause a lot of last-minute RD apps, and it's possible that applicants will have adjusted somehow, though I'm not sure how other than to apply early where possible. |