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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They won’t get into your alma maters. The 70s had done of the lowest birth years ever. It was much easier to get into too colleges back then. [/quote]

They won't get into your alma maters, and they probably also won't get into the schools you applied to as back-ups. They won't get into the good-but-not-Top 20 school that your neighbor's kid got into 5 years ago. It is a totally different world today than 30 years ago - and a totally different world from pre-pandemic times.

If you want to get a sense of how the odds have shifted for a specific school (or a specific region or type of school) take a look at this blog post: [url]https://www.highereddatastories.com/2022/01/yes-your-yield-rate-is-still-falling-v.html[/url] You can enter a school name and it will show you the admit rate (and other data) for every year between 2001 and 2020. Note that for many many many schools, the admit rates have gotten much lower since 2020.

Fwiw my wonderful but non-spectacular kid got into a great school this year. We were very strategic in helping him figure out where to apply. But it might also just have been dumb luck. [/quote]

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