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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Exactly. This forum of OLD parents talking of their experience from 35+ years ago. One can hardly get into a community college these days (yes, know what a community college is!)[/quote]

This really just isn’t true.  For this to be true, you’d need either a massively expanding population AND no comparable increase in university slots OR everyone magically gets smarter and harder working in a generation.

We have a moderately larger population but I’m skeptical that the pool of very qualified students (say, those who are ready to excel at college level work at top universities the moment they enter) is massively larger than it ever was.  If anything, if you’re looking at the middle class, standards have probably slightly declined.[/quote]

It is, plus the competition from international students is fierce.[/quote]

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