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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is happening at every school. As admissions get tougher across the board, kids are applying to more schools and schools are saying no to more kids. [/quote]

It can't quite be so simple.  There are only so many kids (and that's actually decreasing) and there are a certain amount of spots. In the end, each kid goes to one spot.  VT can't just get more selective, or more kids will turn them down.  Their place in the heirarchy is unchanged.  What is true is that things are more random, but not clearly more selective.[/quote]

Colleges don’t know what other colleges a kid applies to. Some kids with great applications may get accepted everywhere, knocking regular kids out of the running. [/quote]

but they know their histories, and they know kids are applying to more schools than they used to.  They know that kids with near perfect records turn them down most of the time, and they know kids at their 25%ile accept them most of the time.  If the regular kids get knocked out of the running, schools like VT would end up under-enrolled when the top kids choose elsewhere.  They are more sophisticated than that.[/quote]

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