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[quote=Anonymous]It's not due to the Common App.  It's due to the number of schools that students can safely earmark as being "safeties".  Whereas once upon a time a student could earmark 4 or 5 universities and have a good shot at getting into them, now it is much more difficult to pick reaches, and safeties with assurance.  Students used to pick 8; many are now going for 12-15.  Selectivity ratings keep dropping for all schools every year just because the volume of applications rises every year.  More than one million international students entered the U.S. to study here last year taking up slots that used to go to American students.  Compound that with an environment in which everyone thinks he or she must attend a four year college and you get hysteria.  Now toss in the fact that the privates are going for upwards of $75K a year and you have a lot more families going for the value of in-state or OOS schools.  There was a surprise surge in applications at Virginia Tech last year, leaving many unhappy families and students who had the requisite scores and thought it was a safety.  The same is happening at all in-state schools across the nation.  The demand for quality in-state schools is surging.[/quote]

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