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[quote=Anonymous]Eliminate the Common App. Make every student apply to each school individually. Set minimum academic standards like they do in Canada. And make test scores mandatory again. Problem solved,

But it will never happen. School rankings and perceptions of prestige are largely dependent upon a sense of exclusivity. The more that apply, the more that get rejected, the happier the university. It's why every mediocre high school student in the country gets mail from Chicago, Northeastern, Tulane and all the other schools looking to game the system to lower their admission rates. A 3 percent rate is inevitable, probably next year. Even Vanderbilt's regular decision rate is now 4.2 percent. Can only image what it is at Stanford and Harvard. The system has run amuck. As the admission rates get ever lower, the logical thing to do is to apply to ever more schools. Colleges love it but it sucks for everyone else. You can't rationally apply in this environment. Which is why everyone is going ED now but the same dynamic will follow that strategy as well. The system is broken. It's chaos for families, but meanwhile the colleges are very pleased with themselves.[/quote]

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