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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know it doesn't help with DS's experience of rejection, but here's an additional perspective. I have been teaching at UMD in recent years after having gone to a top SLAC and taught at an Ivy and a top UC and I am SO IMPRESSED with the kids at UMD. Everything about the experience of teaching there has been a pleasant surprise to me. The faculty will be delighted to have him in class and he will be plenty stimulated by his peers. [/quote]

If you see this: Are you in your 40s to 60s?

If so: In the real world, does it seem as if the incoming students at the top UC and UMD are a lot better than the incoming students would have been at those places in the 1980s; a little better; worse; or roughly the same?

In other words: When we see that Super Duper School X has a 5% admissions rate, and even UMD is getting to be snooty, is that mostly a mirage, because the kids are using the internet to apply to more schools; mainly because the current cohorts are, say, 40% bigger, due to the Echo Boom and an  increase in the number of international students; or mainly due to the fact that there are really a lot more spectacularly brilliant, accomplished students?[/quote]

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