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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd be curious about whether it's truly gotten any harder to get into college, or if these lower percentages mostly just reflect students firing off more applications. If the average student launches 8 applications rather than 4, that has the effect of creating more total apps and lowering the admit rates for colleges. But ultimately, those students can each attend only one college.

I get that there are some foreign applicants, but is the number big enough to make a statistical difference in the total number of applicants?[/quote]

Harvard and Yale now take 10% foreign undergrads when it used to be less than 1% in the 1980s.  Some other selective colleges have an even higher percentage of foreign students.  Given that the U.S. population also has expanded since the 1980s, but the Ivies have added only a small number of additional spots for students, the phenomenon of foreign applications has absolutely had an effect on selectivity.  [/quote]

Great.  That might explain it.  Source?[/quote]

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