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[quote=Anonymous]There's a difference between "accept" and "admit".  Schools are dong everything possible to increase their application rate to look more attractive to U.S. New & World Report.  That simply means the school will do ANYTHING, and I mean ANYTHING, down to emailing your kid and saying they will waive the fee and the essay so long as your kids applies - because all the school wants is the no. of applications to be huge.  Every single school is doing this.  Then, out of a huge application pool, they will send only only so many acceptances.  Then, out of those acceptances, only so many kids will actually show up.  These are the three criteria handed over to U.S. News and World Report.  Hence the pressure (and the article that OP has - undoubtedly planted by the UCLA marketing department) to show it has an all time high class application pool.  So what?  So does UVA, Harvard, Pomona, GMU, Yale - every school has the highest no. of applicants because it is tougher to get into a good school; it is easy to apply to many schools with the touch of a computer button; schools are more selective - so Kids apply to 12-30 schools.  And, now that we are down to the wire, my kid is being begged by email to apply to Univ. of Arizona - all sorts of bizarre places just so the the school can brag about the number of applicants.  Hence my "so what?"  The colleges will do anything to enlarge the no. of applicants to the point, as said, of waiving fees and essays.  Your kid is just a number.  Then, for the 12,000 seats in the freshman class, the school will use a logarithim from past years and say accepts 24,000 on the theory that UCLA is a safety school for kids in CA and in the East applying to Ivies.  Also the hot schools in CA now are Berkeley and Santa Clara, not UCLA.  When assessing whom will be accepted - due to the bankruptcy of the state - the university will prefer the out-of-state kids paying full freight over the instate students.   So the acceptances will go out first to the out-of-staters who have shown a genuine interest in attending.  The others waitlisted.  Then as the class fills, more will come off the waitlist and get accept.  The final 10-12K who show up is the "yield" - also data reported back to U.S. News and World Report.

My point is that it is all a statistics game.  Colleges want huge nos. of applicants so they can turn them down so they appear to be more "selective".[/quote]

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