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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I have a senior that is waiting on results. Like you, I started lurking on this forum and CC starting when kid was a sophomore. Here is what I have gathered. I think it is a combination of multiple factors: (1) Covid and resulting test optional. This significantly increased number of applications and kids who may normally not have applied 6-7 years back, applied. So some kids that may not have gotten in 6-7 years back got in and that means that the denied kids had to choose their safeties. (2) Increased focus on First Gen, and more diverse cohort. I think test optional is a bigger impact and this is secondary. (3) To keep up, since highly selective schools are now a lottery, kids are applying to more schools and this is exacerbates the problem.

I think some schools may go back to requiring tests. It is also possible that due to chatGPT, colleges may rethink or reformat the essays. It will be interesting to see how the next few years will play out.

Regardless, if you aim for T50-150 there is plenty of good colleges for everyone. We should encourage kids to dream but not get hung up on one dream school. Choose a broad range and set expectations with kid accordingly.[/quote]

Ditto and I agree with this. As someone else mentioned, parents complain every year, but the data shows that schools are getting more applications year over year which makes each new cycle more cutthroat than the one before. [/quote]

+1 CU Boulder and Clemson were safeties a couple of years ago. This year, hardly anyone got in, including kids we know who had either as top choice. Hopefully with a lot of forthcoming shuffling more kids will get in. We just got an email from a state school that they're pushing decision date to 6/1. [/quote]

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