College admissions will be easier next year

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not this year. Not a very perceptible difference in number of students applying to college. Birth rate isn’t that difference with the 2007/2008 birth cohort of class of 2026.

Each passing year it will get a bit easier. Today’s high school freshmen will have a much easier time.

Yes. Our FCPS public has a senior class of 800 kids! That is not going to make things easier

+1000000

This is the peak HS class for many schools around the nation.

Yes. Many 2007s are current high school seniors.

Most seniors are 2008. Did you redshirt your kid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not this year. Not a very perceptible difference in number of students applying to college. Birth rate isn’t that difference with the 2007/2008 birth cohort of class of 2026.

Each passing year it will get a bit easier. Today’s high school freshmen will have a much easier time.

Yes. Our FCPS public has a senior class of 800 kids! That is not going to make things easier

+1000000

This is the peak HS class for many schools around the nation.

Wrong, last year, the last of 2025 was the peak one.

+2 2025 was peak.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the thread about this that we had in June: There is no cliff. It's a slow decline.

By this graph, 2026 looks to be the peak (not 2025). So no reduction this year unfortunately.

Can you not read a graph?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not this year. Not a very perceptible difference in number of students applying to college. Birth rate isn’t that difference with the 2007/2008 birth cohort of class of 2026.

Each passing year it will get a bit easier. Today’s high school freshmen will have a much easier time.

Yes. Our FCPS public has a senior class of 800 kids! That is not going to make things easier

+1000000

This is the peak HS class for many schools around the nation.

Yes. Many 2007s are current high school seniors.

Most seniors are 2008. Did you redshirt your kid?

No - different states have different age cut-offs. In my state, fall 2007 babies are seniors right now. Not redshirting, just following the school age policy.

[Anonymous]

Even college counselors are saying the number of students seems to be down quite a bit from last year.

So 2026 admissions should be lot easier and T20 easier to get into compared to last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even college counselors are saying the number of students seems to be down quite a bit from last year.

So 2026 admissions should be lot easier and T20 easier to get into compared to last year.

I think it will be easier for entry into normal colleges - outside the top 30-40 usual suspects that everyone focuses on.

People just need to make better matched lists and not overly focus on reaches.

More US students are interested in non-US college because of the Trump effect. There is the beginning of a brain drain to international English-speaking colleges (Ireland, Scotland, Canada, UK). Those colleges will be harder to get into for Americans next year due to the higher demand.

[Anonymous]

Fewer kids are applying to college as well, so fewer competing applications for that reason as well - 64%, if I remember correctly compared to around 72% pre COVID

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even college counselors are saying the number of students seems to be down quite a bit from last year.

So 2026 admissions should be lot easier and T20 easier to get into compared to last year.

Idk where you live but my 2023 grad had 709 in the graduating class. My 2026 kid has almost 100 more kids in his graduating class.

[Anonymous]

2025 parents want an excuse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the thread about this that we had in June: There is no cliff. It's a slow decline.

By this graph, 2026 looks to be the peak (not 2025). So no reduction this year unfortunately.

It is because of all the 2007s/early 08s and the internationals that deferred will be back. Buckle up it’s going to be rough

Buckling

[Anonymous]

2026 will be the easiest year in a while for T20 admissions.

[Anonymous]

For Fall of 2026, it will be easier.