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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mid tier MCPS graduating class in late 80’s sent 4 to Brown, 2 UPenn, one each to Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Dartmouth, Cornell and 5 to Georgetown (including myself). No way does that happen today.[/quote]

Help me understand please.

So it is "harder" for kids who went to your HS in the 80s.

Care to explain why that is?

Please also explain why that matters.

And lastly, please explain how if those colleges admit the same number of students, and there is a similar number of students in the whole college cohort, equates "harder" overall.

Thanks.  Much appreciated.[/quote]

If in the 80’s a college received 15000 applications for 5000 spots and today it receives 50000 applications for the same number of spots, how could that not be harder to get in? Even if those numbers don’t represent all competitive students, there’s still going to be a rise in the number of competitive students.

It’s math. 1/3 chance vs 1/10. [/quote]

Here's why that's wrong, and why the OP's headline is right.

Same number of kids applying for the same number of seats means it is, overall, exactly the same as before.

If you are arguing that certain and specific colleges have lower admit rates than they were in the past - which is what your post did -  fine, but know that HAS to be offset by other colleges being easier to enroll in.  It is NOT harder overall.

It is a zero sum game.[/quote]

Oh come on. We all know this discussion is about admissions to the T50 schools. Yes perhaps it is now easier to get into colleges that have no ranking or national following.

But it’s also true that in 1980 there were 12.1 million college students and today there are 19.6. That means more competition. [/quote]

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