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[quote=Anonymous]Wow, I got into an Ivy 15 years ago for undergrad (humanities/social sciences) and I didn't do the majority of your list--just good SAT score, grades, school leadership and volunteering. And I attended a standard/average parochial school for MS/HS. What happened??!!

Several things have happened. The children of the first generation of Ivy and Little Ivy financial aid babies, who stormed in during the 80s, are now applying in droves.  Also, legacy admissions are way down.  Harvard, at nearly 2/3 just 30 years ago, has dropped to 22%, opening the door to a flood of hungry second generation immigrant kids (e.g. Asians who attend magnets like Bronx Science, Stuyvesant and Chicago Lab School) as well as wealthy, and very well prepared, foreign students (e.g. from China, India).  Also, in the last five years, all the Ivies have adopted the Common Application on-line, meaning kids can cut, paste and click to apply to a dozen schools at once, when it used to be hard work to complete applications one at a time.  And like another PP points out, rising college costs are driving applicants to Ivies because parents are drawing the line at paying tens of thousands, and going into debt themselves, for other schools.

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