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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you imbeciles constantly post how many applicants a college receives?  The quality of those applicants is the relevant statistic.[/quote]

How many of the 40,000+ kids who applied to Wisconsin do you think are not quality applications? How do you delineate between in state and OOS for the 5,000 or so spots they will fill? Just using this as an example since it was raised up thread.[/quote]

+1. And the problems with schools, especially public schools (vs Ivy’s) that get 40,000-60,000 applications is that they have limited resources and can’t spend an hour getting to know each kid and carefully reading essays and LORs.  They may make allowances for curriculum rigor based on what the regional AO knows, but admissions are much more numbers based than SLACs filling classes of 400.  Even UVA is largely numbers based.  Look at a Naviance scattergram. For unhooked kids there is going to be a GPA and SAT/ ACT weedout at publics like Wisconsin and Pitt with large numbers of applicants.  You have almost solid red un to a certain GPA/ SAT combo, then almost all green.

A 31 isn’t going to cut it at Wisconsin. It might at Pitt, assuming the kid is not applying to Engineering of SCI. [/quote]

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