Has College Admissions (at "top" schools) Become Unsustainably Competitive?

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@PerformingDude

I have seen no visible effort (except with Rice this year) of these schools to expand their campuses, which they could very well do, and leave more space for the incredibly deserving applicants that are rejected from every single reach/target school they applied to.

Should elite schools be expanding capacity?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/harvard-and-its-peers-should-be-embarrassed-about-how-few-students-they-educate/2021/04/08/3c0be99c-97cb-11eb-b28d-bfa7bb5cb2a5_story.html Interesting perspective. This may help explain by gaining admission to the Ivies among others has grown increasingly difficult. Ivy League colleges grew by 14 percent over the last 30 years, lagging far behind the 44 percent rise in the number of high school graduates.

You might enjoy perusing this thread which discusses your query about expanding the capacity of elite schools. It’s not always easy to do and there doesn’t seem to be much incentive to do so even if it is easy or available.