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[quote=Anonymous]I'm surprised how statistically hard it is to get into a top 30-40 college now. When my husband got into MIT in the 90s, admission rate was somewhere between 25-30%. Now, for our daughter to get into Tufts the admission rate is 10% - so it's much, much harder statistically than it was for her father to get into MIT (which has a 4-5% admission rate). And even getting into Skidmore now (23% admission rate) is about statistically the same difficulty as my husband getting into MIT when he did. We're just floored. There are more applicants to each school and spots are not rising with demand. Everything is harder. We absolutely need to stop focusing on top10-20 as even top 40-50 is too hard now. Maybe we should be focusing on the top 100 the way we used to focus on top 20, and top 50 the way we used to focus on top 10. I hate it here. [/quote]
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