<p>the demography suggests this year is the worst.</p>
<p>Haha I love this thread...sorry to any '06ers, but majority of the year doesn't apply themselves.</p>
<p>2006 or 2007? I hope you mean 2006. This year was brutal.</p>
<p>Yeah, definitely '06 at my school doesn't apply themselves, sorry for not being clear. This year was kinda hard, but I survived haha.</p>
<p>In my school 06 has been the best class since 03...so dont hate on all of us :) I'll be attending Northwestern in the fall Poli sci/ international affairs major....but I am thinking of Global Health minor as well</p>
<p>"So it keeps getting harder and harder, doesn't it ahave to stop somewhere? We're not superhuman."</p>
<p>No .. competition can very well keep getting tougher. This effect will only be mitigated by construction of new universities or expansion of older ones. Without this, many candidates who would otherwise be qualified to go to more competitive schools will find themselves at institutes which, perhaps, won't present an adequate challenge to them.</p>
<p>A prime example of a school continually growing to account for this very problem is the University of Central Florida (UCF), which has been dubbed by some as "Under Construction Forever." The fact is, in a free-market education environment, if there is a need for more classrooms, more classrooms will be built. Until then, future classes will continue to face the same types of challenges we do today.</p>
<p>HYPS, the Ivies and other top colleges has now become like drug lords. They are the new Tony Montanas of the world and their credo; "our shi** is the best" has reached out into every little kids brain. It has permeated the mindset of us college applicants to the extinct that we've become desperate crackheads itching our necks saying "I'll su** yo di** man" just to get that thick envelope filled with relieving narcotics. Someday one of us will really try the ***** these drug lords are selling to us and realize it's no different to the the one sold in Ohio or that the new green tab that got recently out on the market gives him the same, if not better, rush/kick than the ***** he/she just received. And that will be the fall of Tony Harvard-Yale-Princeton Montana.</p>
<p>lol, nice analogy.
I don't believe that you will necessarily get a better education at an Ivy League school, than at most other schools. I think you can do anything you want no matter what school you graduate from. However, I do believe it's easier to succeed if you go to an ivy league school. More doors will be open to you regardless of whether the education was different. So I think in order for things to change, employers, too, must get it into their heads that HYPMS is not the only sh** Especially now that many qualified kids are being rejected, kids who have worked hard and deserve to be there.</p>
<p>"it definitely will be. the chinese have this whole big notion of dragon year babies being lucky. the class of 2011 should be made up mainly of dargon year babies."</p>
<p>Er... I would think it'd be mostly snakes... 1989. Dragons are 1988, which for the most part is this year's seniors (2006/2010).</p>
<p>wait why will it start to decline again for 2013? i thought it gets more competitive each year...</p>
<p>I don't quite agree, corporatefinance. It'd be hard to argue that a place like, say, Swarthmore would give you an education the same quality as Arizona State's or something. Most LACs would provide a better educations.</p>
<p>Yeah....2011 is snake...all '89ers are snakes....</p>
<p>stonecold23 - It will begin to decline because the cohort of students applying to college will be shrinking in number (e.g., there were fewer people born around 1992 than around 1989).</p>
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<p>has anyone noticed the level of competition on these forums? i mean obviously it was expected but i had thought that it would be much more like a supportive thing. it feels like people are lurking to point out each and every one of your mistakes. and a lot of people who are put down on the forums severely end up going to top colleges!</p>
<p>well the caliber of students applying are definitely increasing because the competitive students are probing for more and more opportunities that they hear of and what criteria they have to "fit" to get into the ivies. more info/found opportunities + more people = higher competition.</p>
<p>I think if more people applied to reasonable numbers of colleges (i. e. not in the double digits) it'd be easier for everyone.</p>
<p>Yeah, but who has the balls to start? Especially considering how that puts you at a disadvantage if everyone else doesn't do the same.</p>
<p>i think the better fin aid from the ivies will raise comp., myself and a few others from my school that were competitive for ivy admission opted not to apply b/c of money issues (we all had families making right at 50-60k) with the new policies that opens doors for similar families</p>
<p>I agree yubi..everytime I come on..it's like "Post your stats"..."SAT scores"....people just want to feel like theyre better and smarter than you. But hey, thats life. And everyone is so pressured to do good, so they need to feel like they've achieved something.</p>
<p>Am I the only one who heard that 2010 was as bad as it's going to get, at least for a while?</p>
<p>I live in IL and am 2011. I plan on applying to washu ED. I just want to get everything over with.</p>