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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it due to COVID? Is it because most universities went test optional? Is it because more students applied to more schools?

What are your thoughts?[/quote]

Every year, people think it’s the hardest year ever for their snowflake. 😂[/quote]

Yes. As someone pointed out elsewhere, punch CollegeConfidential into the Archive.org and you’ll see posts from the 2001-2002 admissions cycle decrying how it’s the hardest admissions year ever.[/quote]

What’s your point? That doesn’t mean 2022 isn’t harder. In 2001-2, there were 645,111 applications to the top 56 colleges and 198,815 acceptances. The application numbers have risen steadily since, and admitted number, not so much. In 2021-2, there were 1,996,680 applications and 226,234 acceptances. The number of applications went up more than 300% and the number accepted went up by 14%. The average admit rate went from 31% to 11%. Add in test optional, which makes more of those apps actually competitive.

Total applications at the most selective schools are up 25% this year over 2019, so add in another 400,000 apps for the same number of seats.

It absolutely had been getting harder every year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_admissions_in_the_United_States

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