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And read the Naviance results from your own kid's school. At my kid's highly sought after MCPS school, there are similar numbers of acceptances at top schools as in past years. The big difference is simply that the total number of applicants is much larger than in past years, so there are more rejections, even for kids with great stats.[/quote]
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This is precisely the point - at our highly sought after NoVa school, we can clearly see almost EXACT same number of applicants as the past 3 years to 3 of our most competitive state schools and, as of today, Naviance shows 1/3 the number of students accepted this year compared to acceptances of the past 3 years for each of these 3 schools. I know perhaps not all students have updated their Naviance, and perhaps we need to wait until May…..but, there is a very popular 4th school in VA that shows about 90 acceptances this year (very much in line with past years) and, either just those students accepted to that one school are totally on top of it and are updating their Naviance, or our high school faced a brutal cut from 3 of the most competitive/popular VA schools. Time will tell.[/quote]

At DC's public, it's a volume story.  I don't think kids are updating results yet, but the application numbers are through the roof-- up 20-50% at some of the schools that were already popular (UMich, Northeastern, Northwestern, Emory, Vanderbilt, Wash U, etc)[/quote][/quote]

So is this because Kids are applying to more schools or Covid grade inflation/test optional means there are more qualified candidates or both? [/quote][/quote]

Hard to know...I have heard of some private school kids applying to 20+ schools. I don't know of anyone at DC's public school applying to more than 10-12 schools but I have no idea how that differs from normal years. It's also possible that it's that a lot of kids that used to apply to 6-8 schools now apply to 10-12. I will say that all the kids I know that apply to 10+ schools are applying with scores. Purely anecdotal.

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