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The current situation is that colleges have become less predictable in whom they accept, in part due to test-optional admissions. It's not so much that college admission is more selective across the board, although it has certainly become so at the top universities and colleges, but that students are forced to widen their search and apply to more schools to ensure admission at one of them. And tuition increases every year, faster than salaries can keep up.

And that's a very bad thing. It puts the burden on the student and their family to navigate an extremely complex, non-transparent, process. Colleges and universities profit from the murkier admissions criteria ("holistic" and "equitable" my foot) to cherry-pick the class that suits them that year, to sculpt their brand and image. Profit, in the form of reputation and money, is the end goal, at the expense of individual students.

[b]No other wealthy nation does this to its young people.[/b]

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This is an odd thing to say. Very few state schools act like this toward their instate students. What you describe is mostly the practice of private schools. [/quote]

DP, but the mere existence of ED/EA1/EA2 puts all the pressure on the applicant and none on the university.  It helps one side of the equation only: the university.  And last I checked, most of the sought after state flagships participate in ED/EA.

I hear the argument that ED/EA allow student to signal to colleges it is their top choice, but the same thing could be accomplished by ranked preference choice in admissions, and would alleviate the pressure on 17 year olds.[/quote]

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