The number of stories I've heard in the course of my son's application process of schools receiving record numbers of applications this year is off the charts. I can name multiple LACs whose acceptance rates have shrunken literally in half in the span of just a couple of years (e.g., St. Olaf, Trinity U, Grinnell, etc), and these aren't exactly household name kinds of places. My D's school, Olin, got 30% more applications this year than last!
So what's the deal? Didn't demographics peak a year or two ago? Are kids just applying to an ever greater number of colleges, even though the common app has been around for years now? Is it international students? Are a greater fraction of high school kids applying to college because it's seen as increasingly mandatory for satisfactory employment? Someone help me out here.
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