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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC had a 3.82 and was accepted to a top 10 school as a legacy. 35 ACT and max rigor in all classes. Not a great Freshman year due to Covid but great since then. [/quote]

If your dc is presently a junior or senior in college, their stats would not be of any relevance compared to this year's seniors. During early years of Covid it was much easier to get into colleges due to kids taking gap years; plus their was a significant college admissions' priorities in terms of race making it much harder for non-minorities for the HS class of 2022 and 2023, and this year the Supreme Court's ruling all bets are off this year. [/quote]

There were two years when kids taking gap years helped boost admissions: class of 2020 and 2021. Many schools had a surge that made them have to rent hotels for dorm space in 2021. The following year was the worst because all the gap year kids were back, the gap year craze died back to normal numbers, and the colleges were not willing to buy extra dorm space again and were unsure of yield, all of which created a perfect storm to shrink the spots for class of 2022.

Example, and it trickles down to other colleges from here: 
Harvard 2020, 2037 admitted (5%) plus 34 from the waitlist.
Harvard 2021, 2313 admitted (4%.) Number of applicants grew by 43%, while number of students admitted grew by 15% to fill the gap years. Zero from the waitlist.

Then the corrective backlash:
Harvard 2022, they dropped to 1954 admits (359 fewer spots than the prior year), but also another surge in applicants by almost 7% creating the highest yet number of applicants yet, thus a mere 3.2% admission rate. This number was slightly corrected with 36 WL admissions. A lot of schools aggressively used the waitlist to manage the class size that year. This was the same story across most schools, fewer spots for new first years (including on sports teams), so a lot of kids fell several tiers (making this a very strong class of students of lower tier schools).

Harvard 2023, 1966 admitted (4.5%), 27 from the waitlist [note different outlets are reporting different numbers, but this is form Harvard], which is still low but getting close to being back to admission numbers from pre-Covid: 2019 admissions: 1990 (5.3%), but the surge in applicants continues so the admissions rate is not normalizing.

Compare for fun, just 10 years ago, 2014, 2110 (7%). And for you parents in the Harvard class of 1992, here's a throwback from 1988 when you were applying: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1988/7/8/freshman-class-sets-application-records-pthe/   ("Not only did the College receive a record 14,430 applicants, but the number it admitted was one of the lowest in years, with an acceptance rate of only 14.6 percent...."). Last year, Harvard received 43,330 applicants.

Bottom line, Class of 2022 will go down in history as the worst year to apply to college.[/quote]

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