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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I graduated from a Fairfax Co. HS in 1988 and it was said to be one of the most competitive years.

This certainly was not the case for my high school. So many waitlist and outright denials for top kids (top 5% of class) at UVA/W&M and Ivie, Duke, etc.

Even a Supreme Court justice's kid was waitlisted at many of the places I was.[/quote]

That's not to say it's not increasingly more difficult these days to get in.  The difference being that student's "Back up schools" back then are now very hard to get into, but it was just as hard for the top 10/Ivies, etc.[/quote]

Yup! In 1988, if you graduated HS in Virginia and had at least a 2.0 (or something ridiculously low), you were GUARANTEED admission into Va Tech. 
I don't live in VA anymore, but my state's 2nd ranked large school (because the flagship is T50 and wouldn't do guaranteed admissions), requires a 3.5 GPA to be guaranteed admission just for comparison.

School I attended in 1988 had a 35% admission rate, today it's 7% or less (T15 school at that time).  in 1988 ~12K students applied for ~1900 spots.  This year ~51K applied for the same ~2K spots.

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