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[quote=Anonymous]Please, stop the hyperventilating! The pool of likely admits to the most selective colleges isn't much bigger than it used to be. There are just lots more applicants who would never have been likely to get in submitting their Common Apps.

Here's a good read to provide a little reassurance - http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/04/is-college-really-harder-to-get-into-than-it-used-to-be/360114/

The top 1-2% of high school graduates today really isn't that much different than the top 1-2% in the '80s.  If your child is one of the top kids in his/her school and he/she took the most rigorous classes available and  scored respectably (relative to their level of privilege), your child will get into one of the elite colleges.  A strong student's odds of getting into one of the elite colleges is as good now as it was 30-40 years ago. The reason the admit rates have fallen so sharply is that lots more kids in the top 20% take a shot when similar would have been heavily discouraged a generation ago.

What's changed is that the odds of getting into any particular elite college is much harder. DC may have her heart set on Brown and not get in, but there is a pretty strong chance she will get into Dartmouth, Cornell, or Penn and an even better chance to get into one of the really good SLACs.

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