I agree. The interview opportunity solely depends on the interviewers.
Has anyone heard any rumblings about application numbers for RD?
no… but i wanna know! especially since nyu announced they got 100,000 apps
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That is $8,000,000 application fee!
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Duke has 10,000 more than last year. That means all schools will be astronomically up.
All these thank to test-optional.
And Duke RD is up 20% from last year…
I feel like I should have applied to twice as many schools, but it was just too expensive to do that.
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I wonder how many of these applications are from fee-exempt applicants? There was a thread on CC from a person who had a fee waiver, but whose family had a college fund for him. He was applying to SO many schools - basically as many as he could hit “SEND” for, it seemed.
When mom and dad are footing the application bill, they’ll usually say that X amount is enough. Seems to me that the fee waiver should have a cap, too, of perhaps 8 schools, which would allow for 2 safeties, 3 matches, and 3 reaches, and that if the person wants to pay for more, they can. That might put a significant dent in the absurd number of applications being generated. This year, essentially, one in ten applicants using the Common App (which everyone does), put in an application to NYU!
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If people are applying to more schools, shouldn’t the acceptance # also go up since now there’s a higher possibility that the accepted applicant will not matriculate? I’m sure the AOs will take that into account and admit more students than usual… (That’s the logic at least… 
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Agree to the “cap” idea regarding Common App Fee Waiver.
Common app only allows 20 colleges in the list. I am mo sure about Coalition App.
I don’t know about that… Seems that, especially in this test-optional year, there are a lot of students putting in applications who might otherwise have felt they had no chance, due to mediocre test scores. But T20 schools have always had a high percentage of their applicants choose to enroll, and I don’t think it’s going to be any different this year. Every year, T20 applicants have applied to many T20 schools - that’s nothing new this year.
Schools like NYU are dream schools for a lot of their applicants. I think that they probably wind up with a fair number of their accepted students choosing to enroll at NYU. And schools that are not very selective know that only a small percentage of those that they accept will actually enroll.
I think that it is the highly competitive, but not T20, schools that are going to see the greatest effect of the increased applications but lower yield phenomenon this year.
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The safer play is to use the waitlist to account for variance from historical yield. Agree with @parentologist that T20 will probably anticipate and yield similar to historical rates.
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I wonder how much the WL will be used, however, with so many 2024 deferrals.
Harvard has such a high yield already, I doubt they will increase the number admitted. If REA is any indication, they in fact admitted about 150 less even when 3600+ more applied vs last year. It will be interesting to see what the final admitted number is although they have said that the deferrals will not affect admissions.
Deferrals will not affect the size of the Class of 2025 (excluding deferred applicants). However, my guess is that they will admit a smaller number and will use the wait list more than in past years.
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Seriously…this might be both the worst year and the best year for applying for college.
As an upper-middle-class, white female, from a family of post-grads, I know my chances are slim. But I’m not gonna lie…if I separate my individual
emotions from this situation, I kinda feel a lot of joy about the increase in First-Gens, Quest Bridge, Black, Hispanic and Native-American students applying to elite schools this year. This is a very good trend of increased competition.
After a historically horrible year, on so many levels, I’m glad to see the increased diversity of college applicants and admissions—so many people who face marginalization felt the hope and courage to sort of shoot for the stars. Maybe the pandemic has a silver lining after all.
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Does every applicant get an interview?
No. Interviews are randomly assigned based on availability.
Do they offer admission without interview?