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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have friends with children at Big 3, FCPS and MCPS.

High GPA kids and/or high test kids all did great. Looks the same as 5, 10 and 15 years ago.

More unqualified kids applying are making the acceptance rates plummet. But the kids with the goods are doing as well as ever.

Sorry to burst your bubble. [/quote]

This is patently false. Just look at the numbers in the big picture, not just your immediate circle of acquaintances.[/quote]

There are more kids nationally and internationally applying for the same number of seats. So by math, the numbers just aren't there for high stats kids to be able to get into so-called T20 schools.[/quote]

True-- and/but, important to keep reminding yourself and your kids that there are also more excellent schools today than 35 years ago. Top schools have graduated too many PhD students to get teaching jobs at those schools, so those Ivy PhDs now teach at top 100 schools, not top 20; rising college age population, more widespread awareness of how college admissions works and more int'l students means more "top" kids are now attending top 100 schools instead of top 20 schools.

Upshot: whether from a networking perspective or an "educational quality" perspective, all the top hundred or so schools now offer first rate academics and opportunities to their students. They all have great research opportunities, great study abroad opportunities, great career services offices.

So-- YES, it is 100% harder to get into top 20 schools today than a few decades ago, but there are now many more excellent schools to choose from. [/quote]

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