<p>My friend told me that since this year the colleges accepeted a less than average amount of students, then next year they will raise the acceptance rate by letting in more students. Is this an accurate assesment?</p>
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My friend told me that since this year the colleges accepeted a less than average amount of students, then next year they will raise the acceptance rate by letting in more students. Is this an accurate assesment?
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<p>What? haha... </p>
<p>How does that make sense?</p>
<p>It makes perfect sense...</p>
<p>No it doesn't. Why would colleges accept more people next year simply because they accepted less people this year?</p>
<p>Colleges are not trying to reach some kind of acceptance equilibrium.</p>
<p>False. (To the OP)</p>
<p>But the new financial aid will encourage more middle class to apply to HYPS.</p>
<p>Next year will be equally difficult. Possibly moreso as many top students may be tempted to apply to even more colleges in order increase the odds that they will be accepted at at least one elite school. After seeing all the kids who were waitlisted at schools where, statistically at least, they were easily in the top 25% of the applicant pool, I can't say that I blame them.</p>
<p>hamburgler, you're confusing lower acceptance rates with lower matriculation rates. At some schools last year, yes, they matriculated far more than they expected to last year so the class of 2011 is larger. However, this does not mean that this year they accepted fewer for that reason. The fact of the matter is the waitlist is used more heavily now, so "accepted" numbers are down, but the real matriculation numbers will be constant.</p>
<p>it's only accurate if he's got a trusty resource to back it up.
that being said, i don't think that's necessarily the case. these days, kids are smarter than ever. i feel like it'll just keep getting harder and harder every year. :P</p>
<p>I have read newspaper articles on this, and it was also on the news.</p>
<p>Apparently, the most amount of students are applying to school this year because it is the peak of the babyboomers children. I am not sure how accurate this year, but yea I have seen news reports staying that acceptance rates will be slightly higher next year (though it will not be easy at all to get in.)</p>
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My friend told me that since this year the colleges accepeted a less than average amount of students, then next year they will raise the acceptance rate by letting in more students. Is this an accurate assesment?
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<p>Colleges accept the same amount of students every year. Your friend sure is stupid.</p>
<p>Articles that I have read referred to this year in terms of "peaking", not "peaked". The peak year, from what I have read, is expected to be within the next few years. Articles get somewhat confusing because many refer to the Class of 2011, 2012, 2013, as well as 2007, 2008, & 2009, etc. without clearly stating whether the class referred to is a college or high school graduating year.</p>
<p>^^ agreed. From what I've heard, it's the college class of 2013 that is the 'peak.' After that, the # graduating seniors will decrease. However, that doesn't mean that the # applicants to Harvard, etc. will decrease; demand for Ivy+ education may rise. Heck, the demand for *higher education * may rise.</p>
<p>So next year will be the most difficult year?</p>
<p>A lot of people said this year was the peak for the number of graduating seniors... -_-</p>
<p>With the way admission has been this year, it will force more students next year to apply to even more colleges. This will result in more rejections and waitlists next year. So I doubt it will get any easier.</p>
<p>also the difference in kids born in 1990 versus 1991 is NOT that big, not like hundreds of thousands difference.</p>
<p>Just look at how many seniors total in your school versus how many juniors Im sure the amount is negligible.</p>
<p>However jump down to a 4th grade class the differences are much bigger.</p>
<p>Our district had Cornell do a population analysis several years ago for expanding school building puposes, for projected enrollment numbers at our elementary school
6th grade class(now the seniors) were 105 graduates>5th grade 102(now toadays juniors) to todays class of 4th graders 56 (class of 2016)
They explained that this is the same trend thruout the US not just our school/area</p>
<p>Also, in my area at least, the class of 2009/2013 is both 90 and 91 births. Therefore, it could be said that next years class is larger considering 89/90 is less than 90/91.</p>
<p>actually, in my school the differnece between this year's graduating class ( high school '08 and college '12) and next year's (high school '09 and college '13) is relatively large. I believe that the current senior class is something like the mid-low 400's in terms of # of students while our junior class is around 320 students. I guess we're just wierd, then?</p>
<p>Next year should be harder.</p>