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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both things can be true. It can be true that for the most part high-stats kids are landing at top-tier schools, just as they did before, and also true that 15 years ago such kids applied to 6 schools and were admitted to 4, whereas this year they applied to 12 and are lucky to be admitted to 1. It may all look the same to their parents’ friends, but the process today is far more grueling.[/quote]

Mathematically, they cannot both be true. It is literally impossible. As the article cited above states, the Ivies plus Stanford, Duke MIT and CalTech had 15,800 US high school graduates 20 years ago and have 16,300 today. The number of US graduates has gone from 2.8 million to 3.6 million. So these 12 schools used to have enough seats for 56% of the top 1% of US students, and now they have enough seats for 45% of the top 1%. It is more difficult even for those with ridiculously high numbers.[/quote]

That also doesn't take into account the larger numbers of international students competing for those spots[/quote]

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