For those that actually thought college applications would be down this year...

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Anonymous wrote:More applications does not mean more unique applicants. At the end of the day no student can attend more than one school.

+1

Kids apply to twenty schools since it's easy to do.

It is easy when they have private counselors and parents doing all the work for them.

And paying. It’s just a waste of money.

Bitter, much? Not that many applicants have that edge. get a grip.

Not bitter, just practical. Application fees were not a financial concern for us at all. My point was that parents should set limits on the kids. Saying the huge number of apps is “coming from the kids” absolves parents of the responsibility they have in the process. DD did 4 apps in the early round including an ED (and I thought three was plenty.) She will do 4-5 more (max) if ED is not successful.

Oh, well that’s humorous.
Someone doing ED is complaining about students who are applying to too many schools.

I encouraged my child to apply to as many as she wanted.

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I haven’t read this thread, but EA is up because it’s now the accepted line that you have to apply EA to any competitive flagship especially if OOS.

At least among my kid’s group, none are applying RD to places like UMD or UVA.

RD is now entirely private colleges…to the extent the kid wants to keep applying after the ED/EA results.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven’t read this thread, but EA is up because it’s now the accepted line that you have to apply EA to any competitive flagship especially if OOS.

At least among my kid’s group, none are applying RD to places like UMD or UVA.

RD is now entirely private colleges…to the extent the kid wants to keep applying after the ED/EA results.

This. The only schools where DC is applying RD are schools that don’t have EA.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven’t read this thread, but EA is up because it’s now the accepted line that you have to apply EA to any competitive flagship especially if OOS.

At least among my kid’s group, none are applying RD to places like UMD or UVA.

RD is now entirely private colleges…to the extent the kid wants to keep applying after the ED/EA results.

This. The only schools where DC is applying RD are schools that don’t have EA.

Same

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Anonymous wrote:Reading this article, I am shocked that only 14k of the 20k OOS applicants have above a 1310 SAT when the average GPA was a 3.92 by their calculation.

My kid has a 1410 and I was told they were basically cooked at Georgia (but loved the school and wanted to try).

I mean less than 1/4 OOS applicants get in, why are you surprised that they in fact do not have the credentials to be sure they'll get in, given that we expect that pool of applicants mostly to, in fact, not get in?

Bc I was told that having credentials would not lead to admissions so I assumed a much larger share of denied applicants had equal credentials.

And by equal credentials, assume you mean:

- excellent violin / cello or piano
- science olympiad
- 4.0
- high SAT
- spelling bee.


Tons of these cookie-cutter kids out there.

Those Indian American kids whose last name is as long as many of the words they spell?

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Anonymous wrote:lol at the people responding in this thread that actually think apps aren't going to be up across the board. I also think the southern school trend in increased applications will just continue.

+1 The Southern schools have been experiencing soaring popularity. Many Southern publics are reasonably priced even OOS, and you can get a great education in a fun environment.

Plus lots of parents don't want their kids to turn into Greta Thunberg.