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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are tons of kids who get into top colleges with the formula of:

Top grades in hardest tracks 
Tippy top test scores 
Enough ECs to pass muster as well rounded

This was me and most of my friends, who were all top 25% (and usually top 10%) at Ivy graduation.
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Unless you and most of your friends went to ivies within the last 2 (maybe 3) years, your experience is not relevant to how college admissions is now. [/quote]

Maybe.  But honestly someone who has a top 1% IQ and a top, say, 5% IQ is still going to do awesome at life if they end up at Vanderbilt or Boston College instead of Columbia or whatever.

You can train your kid to become a national fiddling champion to try to get some perceived advantage but in the end talent + discipline + EQ will result in positive life outcomes.

Anyway this is a temporary squeeze birth rates are declining so for those with young kids, [b]it’s going to go back to being like the 90s and 00s again in another decade or so.[/b][/quote]

I agree with everything except that admissions will become easier again at some point. No, that’s a fantasy that people are clinging to but for top 25-50 schools, globalization means that any delta that might have been created by declining birth rates will be eliminated by increased international applications and acceptance rates.

Some schools are really transparent about how they have increased their proportion of international students over time- Yale has tons of public data about this, for example. It’s more than doubled since the late 90s.

I don’t see schools reducing their population or international students unless they’re a state school and it’s mandated by their legislature.

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