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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The obvious: BC, Villanova, Santa Clara, safety Holy Cross. But you must have considered all these?  [/quote]
Holy Cross a safety? Hardly.[/quote]
+1 Villanova is the safety on that list.[/quote]

My 4.4/1520/500+ hours of community service kid (plus a million other ECs and such) got rejected from Villanova today. I wouldn't call it a safety.[/quote]

Sorry to hear this, pp and op.

My college senior, after being rejected at Georgetown (my alma mater), went to St. Joe’s. There is a lot to be said for being a big fish in a little sea, rather than swimming with sharks.

There are many, many families with kids at both Villanova and SJU. Talk with them. My son has HS friends at Villanova and he’s even ridden the train home to DC with them on breaks.

The world is simply different today.[/b] I do wish they would limit the number of schools kids apply to[b], but I guess the schools might miss the cash and “selectivity” that comes with rejecting HS seniors. [/quote]

[b]The number of schools applied to has nothing to do with getting rejected,[/b] let's say at Georgetown. There are only a certain number of admission spots. [/quote]

It does.  Kids are blasting applications everywhere.  In the 1980s, 1990s--you would apply to 4-5 colleges.  Now kids are applying to all 8 Ivies, every top 10 and most of the top 25.  So now these schools have close to 50,000-75,000 applicants.  It does matter.

Test optional is an other reason these kids are now applying to so many schools too (minus Gtown of couse which isn't TO).  A kid that had a 1200 SAT (which was like a 1080 back in the late 80s) would not bother applying to any Ivies--even with a 4.0.  Now kids just don't send the scores and VIOLA! you get huge numbers.  The screening/cutoff isn't there.[/quote]

UCLA and NYU get 100k+ applications. The admissions number ( for expected yield, etc.) doesn't change.

HYPS and similar schools have high demand, but limited spots: they will pick academically talented students with the other institutional needs. The numerator doesn't change regardless of the denominator. [/quote]

It does change:
Kid 1: applies a-d.
Kid 2: b,c,d,j
Kid 3: a, c, g, h.

Post TO:

Kids 1, 2 and 3:

All apply a-h now.

Extrapolate out.

Now you have more kids that meet and exceed admission academic baseline to compete against for that spot.  That cross admit —will get in a-h and maybe only truly wants b and c.[/quote]

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