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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. I am the PP who didn’t have the stats. 
I guess my gut feeling and cursory review of some data was right. That’s a huge increase in students applying to application schools over time. [/quote]

It is obviously an increase but it’s hard to say if it is a huge one.  We can’t know if those are all discrete students or overlap.[/quote]

Obviously a lot of overlap between the schools, but by following a single school’s numbers over time you can see an obvious increase in absolute application numbers.  That doesn’t tell you whether the number of “good” applicants is increasing, but PP pointed to some other data (eg the NMSF).

So there are more applicants, plus more and more of the applicants are highly qualified students. [/quote]

You don’t know that more and more of the applicants are highly qualified.  [/quote]

Out of curiosity, why would you make the assumption that with more applicants fewer are in fact highly qualified?  It just seems like a weird hill to die on.  And an illogical assumption.[/quote]

DP.

Because the admissions requirements change every year and have altered dramatically over the past 5 years or so, because the admissions standards don’t weed out less qualified applicants, because there is more grade inflation, etc.  As a result, it is easier for less qualified applicants to get in.  Hence, more applicants but relatively fewer higher-quality admits.[/quote]

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