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[quote=Anonymous]I don’t know if the subject of the article is a good poster child for a broken admissions process or not.

But Harvard had 65,000 applications this year. In 1990, it had around 11,000 or 12,000 applications for approximately the same number of spots.  In 2000, it had around 17,000 or 18,000 applications.

Something has happened to make a lot more applicants think they have a chance at it than ever before. Some of it is pandemic-related, e.g., HS grading policies becoming softer and TO. But that only accounts for the past 2 years.  Even in the pre-Covid years, they had more than 40,000 applications.

Princeton is a similar story.  in 1989, it had around 12,000 applications.  in 2019, closer to 40,000, again for the same number of seats.

Why haven’t the elite universities increased their class sizes in the past 40-50 years?  They certainly have the resources to do so in a way that would not diminish their educational or research quality (if anything, it would likely improve both).  It’s artificial scarcity.  [/quote]

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