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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Phillips Academy Andover, the most elite prep school in America only got 4 kids into Harvard in 2025. In the class of 2023 12 kids got into Harvard. Similar trends are at other top schools with only 6 getting into Yale in 2025 and 12 getting in 2023. Only 4 matriculated to Penn in 2025 compared to 7 in 2023. Only 13 got into UChicago, compared to 21 getting into UChicago in 2023. The trend holds across most elite schools such as Northwestern, Duke, etc.

There seems to be serious anti-elite trends in college admissions. They clearly see these kids as "privileged" and are holding it against them. In this new era, you might just be better off sending your kid to public school.

https://d2e3a5v56wj8r4.cloudfront.net/files/CCO_Profile_2024-2025.pdf

https://d2e3a5v56wj8r4.cloudfront.net/files/SchoolProfile2023-2024.pdf[/quote]

I don't think you understand the difference between being accepted to a school and matriculating (i.e. enrolling). Based on your sources, we have no idea how many students got into Harvard, we just know how many decided to attend. Maybe the students are down on those schools![/quote]

Yes. I was just going to make this point. 
First, the stats OP provided are for the Class of 23 and the Class of 24, not the Class of 25. Kids in the Class of 25 are still making their final decisions.

Anyway, the Class of 24, which apparently did scandalously worse than the previous class, applied to a total of 397 different colleges. The Class of 23 applied to only 307. That’s around 30% more colleges just applied to by the Class of 24 over the Class of 23. Presumably that widened the pool of possibilities for ‘24. The number of colleges kids are actually attending varied only by one:  107 for ‘23 and 108 for ‘24. So while the number of distinct colleges the classes enrolled in remained nearly constant, the number of choices the Class of ‘24 had likely increased by quite a bit.

These numbers also represent where graduates are actually matriculating. It’s possible that 16 kids in each class (totally making that up for illustration purposes) got into Harvard, but while 12 in the Class of 23 chose to go there, only 4 from the Class of 24 did because they had more acceptances to choose from overall.

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