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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see that at many, many (most?) schools, application numbers are up -- over the past few years. At the same time, most schools haven't increased student body sizes. So just based on more applications, acceptance rates are lower. But assuming the number of kids has stayed about the same, what is the overall affect? Genuinely not sure of the answer and also confused. [/quote] Well the number of kids now able to apply to Top/elite schools has changed. With Test Optional many more students with good GPAs are willing to write the supplemental essays and apply to T50 schools simply because of test optional. So I don't think there are more kids actually going to college but the numbers applying to T50 has increased. And more kids are applying to more schools (20 years ago kids didn't apply to 20+ schools). So yes while each kid can only go to 1 school, they can apply to 20and the more that do that means the acceptance rates are driven lower [/quote]
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