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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In his Substack post "College Admissions Doesn't Need to Be So Competitive," Arjun Panickssery argues that the intense competition for admission to top U.S. universities is not inevitable.

He suggests that factors like affirmative action, legacy preferences, institutional priorities, and athletic recruitment, rather than a vast oversupply of talent, drive the "rat race."

He notes that the top 20 schools enroll about 49,000 students annually (1.3% of high school graduates), and, the talent pool with high SAT scores (e.g., 1550+) isn’t as large as perceived—there are actually not that many "high stat" kids.

He also compares US admissions to admissions abroad and that the colleges abroad make their stats and requirements clear and limit the number of colleges students can apply to which is way less stressful and is rooted in merit not holistic admissions.

https://arjunpanickssery.substack.com/p/college-admissions-doesnt-need-to

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I've had two unhooked kids get into HYP who did not have a 1550. higher than 1500, but not 1550.

So move the needle down to 1500 and there are really a lot of high stats kids.

also, take out about 20% of the 49,000 kids for athletes.[/quote]

First you need to take out 20,000 spots because UCB and UCLA aren’t T20 schools.[/quote]

Show us on the doll where the UCs hurt you.[/quote]

The UCs are great schools for some but the 49,000 premise falls apart if you include two huge state flagships who aren’t traditional T20 schools but constitute 40% of his “pool”.[/quote]

Where did you pick up your reading and math skills? Certainly not a UC …

Berkeley and UCLA have been in the Top 10 - 25 range for the entire lifetime of most users of this DCUM community.

They also account for around 26% of that 49,000 figure, a denominator that probably understates the total enrollment of the Top 20 schools each year anyway.[/quote]

They never made the top 25 prior to the USNWR “equity” changes in 2018.

And the number is 17,000 out of the Substack writer 49,000. At 35% I was closer than you so do better.[/quote]

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