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[quote=Anonymous]Top colleges aren't accepting fewer students -- e.g. my college's current freshman class is a bit larger than it was when I matriculated.  And my cohort of HS seniors was larger than last year's.

What's changed is the size of the applicant pool -- how many apply to college and how many colleges each applies to.

Whether that makes it harder to get in depends on whether the additions to the applicant pool are highly qualified (vs. long-shots who are, essentially, buying a lottery ticket now that the Common App makes it less work to apply to more schools).

At internationally-prestigious schools that have need-blind admissions and lots of financial aid $$, part of the story probably is that highly qualified kids who previously would have been priced out are now applying in greater numbers.  Elsewhere, my guess is people are playing the lottery -- in which case, whether it's harder to get in depends on whether the admissions office knows what it's doing or whether getting in really is a crapshoot.

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