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Schools made their decision this year: they wanted to shake things up and decided that they would reject (or, WL...so soft reject) stellar students. I think the reality of that is just beginning to settle in form many of this years applicants (especially as there is so little waitlist movement). Plenty of high stat kids were shut out of top schools. That was the radical change this year. Say what you will about the larger objectives, there is no way this year's applicants should have been forced to accommodate an enormous sea-change in admissions. It is simply not fair.[/quote]

My kid (3.9+ UW, 1560 SAT) got WL by VT. He's grown up with every advantage, and if someone with lower stats who's an URM or a first generation student, that seems pretty fair to me. [/quote]

Fair to whom? The lower stat kid who won't be prepared?

Admission to an elite, highly competitive school is predicated on being prepared. True, there are issues that need to be addressed about how do we ensure the more students are prepared - that is important. But, the solution cannot legitimately be to simply decide that, prepared or not, we want more URM or first gen kids. That is a great disservice to all.

Also, we're not talking about educational access here (there are public state universities that are charged with providing broad access to higher education). We're talking about admission to the most elite institutions. That is fundamentally different. This year, those institutions decided - without adequate preparation or planning - that their stated criteria for admissions no longer apply.   Changing the rules mid-stream is rarely a good idea and [b]rarely leads to a positive result (for anyone)[/b].[/quote]

Assumes facts not in evidence.[/quote]

Nope. Not changing the rules in mid-stream accepted as "reasonable process in everything from law to project planning. It's kinda the basis of a fair process.[/quote]

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