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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To answer the "nightmare or pleasant surprise" question, from what I know the EA/ED results at our senior's school have been disappointing generally.  They definitely vary from the relatively consistent pattern of the past several years.  Not sure if application numbers are up across the board, particularly at top 40 ranked colleges, or if a number of admission offices are changing their targets.[/quote]

Same, at least so far, and at this point I'm talking mainly about Early Decision.

Seems like too many kids had unrealistic stretch schools.  Not sure if it was parents pushing certain schools or the college counselors were just off, or whether the landscape is becoming even more brutal.[/quote]

[b]I think it's becoming more brutal.  It's not unrealistic stretch schools, because better college counsellors will try to talk seniors out of unrealistic applications.  Rather, students are being deferred or denied from target or reach ED schools.  There may be a seismic shift going on this year.[/quote][/b]

It's definitely more brutal.  I've been watching this from an academic viewpoint for the last eight years.  The percentage of applications alone to all institutions increases every year.  That in large part is due to the selectivity and yield ratings in USN&WR, Princeton Review and the others.  The whole game from the institution's point of view is to move up a notch in those ratings.  Hence they want to encourage as many applications as possible in order to reject your children. Then of those that they do select, they pick only those that they bet will show up - hence ED and SCEA offerings - because that will increase their yield numbers.  The schools also report how many international students they matriculate, so that number too jumps every year.  The biggest shift I have noticed is that the finest schools are cherry-picking off of EA, ED and SCEA.  DCs got accepted to their SCEA and EA public university picks.  They (and their friends) did not get into their RD picks.  Same students and same records.   Princeton just accepted SCEA more than half of its classs of 2022 and most of those students will show up (yield).  The game is now being all played out first semester of the high school year so you have to have your grades, essays, ECs and everything else in order to start applying rolling admissions in September and EA,SCEA and ED by Nov. 1st.[/quote]

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