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[quote=Anonymous]THIS is why you want to apply to a lot of colleges: because there's a lot of "noise" in the admissions process, such that students who are rejected at less selective colleges get accepted to more selective schools. When admissions are more like a lottery and less based on objective standards (GPA, SAT, etc), then it pays to have more tickets. This isn't to say that SAT/GPA should be the only factors. Nor is it to say that colleges don't have their own specific needs. But due to grade inflation, SAT/GPA provide colleges with much less usable information than they used to. Which means they're selecting more on subjective factors. That's not necessarily wrong, but to the applicant it's not predictable. You don't know if they need a flute player; you don't know whether your AO, out of all others, will like or dislike your essay. When it's not predictable, it pays to apply to more colleges.[/quote]
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