<p>Anyone else besides me feel like this will be one of the "smartest" classes ever and that admissions for most places will be at an all time low because of the insane amount of people who are applying to top tier schools?</p>
<p>it's quite relative i think. they always say its going to be hard. More doesn't necessarily mean harder, it could just reflect a lower % but the quality of the top 10% of applicants may be just as difficult as the previous years. "Insane amount of people" does not necessarily translate to any more difficulty; great for schools because they can lower their acceptance rates, but they'll still accept the same high quality calibre of people. </p>
<p>I think it's all relative, anyway. good luck still its always tough, a miniscule % isn't going to be the difference.</p>
<p>i think it's going to be more competitive...but the class as a whole isn't "smarter" although in the top top schools it may be.</p>
<p>according to NYT, 2008 is going to a reach a peak to the number of high school graduates...so when everyone says it's getting competitive each year...it's only going to get as competitive as '08 and then itll be relatively easy.</p>
<p>note: i said "relative' easy...so please dont start any ignorant illogical arguments about how I said it was easy. I didn't</p>
<p>Well, the # applying to colleges has been on the rise. Our class is supposed to be one of the largest, so it's definitely going to be competitive. However, I don't think our generation is "smarter" than any other -- there are just more of us.</p>
<p>kennyk616: I'm not so sure about that. I'd heard that it's going to be on the rise till about 2011 or 2012. Do you know what the NYT article was?</p>
<p>last week, wednesday or thursday or yesterday (I really forgot)
it's in the education section I think. </p>
<p>btw, more doesn't mean smarter.
it only means according to chance, the top say, 10000 people is better than the top 10000 people (one is say, 0.1%, the other is just top 1%)</p>
<p>which is why the top say, a certain amount of people in the world is definitely going to be better than the same amount of people in a certain country or location.</p>
<p>not only are class sizes on the rise for the next few years (i heard that 2010 is the largest class nationwide, but 08 is certainly huge anyway), but people apply to a greater number of schools, making admission more competitive. </p>
<p>at my high school, the class of 08 was/is the go-getter class... they partied and everything, but when it came down to it, 07 and 09 slacked off, and 08 was there to pick up the slack. all our star varsity athletes, the leads in the school plays, the heads of major clubs/organizations, etc etc etc were all from the class of 08.</p>
<p>Yes!! In the 3 schools i've attended, Class of 2008 has always been the most ambitious and most outstanding.</p>
<p>Really, wasn't there a discussion saying that the class of 07 was really the best ever...</p>
<p>lol.. notice the smarter in quotation marks..</p>
<p>At my highschool (obviously not qualified to judge entire nation) 06 was ok, 07 has pretty much been considered the best class to ever go through the system, 08 are the slackers - their validictorian would be like #20 in our class, 09 has the average kids, and 10 seems to have incredibly ditzy people that luck out.</p>
<p>I don't think there's necessarily a "trend" for each class. It wouldn't be fair to group each class nationwide as "the partiers" or "the overachievers," though I guess at different schools there would appear to be a strong tendency toward one "type" or another. At my school for instance, the '07ers are "the failures" (though they still got into lots of good schools... I think their label is just from the fact that about 10 of them were expelled as sophomores), the '08ers are "the diverse, overworking, crazy overachievers" (we dominate virtually all sports and supposedly we're super competitive), and the '09ers are just "out there".
This doesn't mean that had I been born one year earlier and attended this same school I would necessarily be a FAILURE.
I'd say it's all pretty even for each class if you look at it nationwide.</p>
<p>Sheed30, I didn't notice the quotes at all. Though today even if the Geico Caveman had been shopping for food in my kitchen, I would not have noticed <em>sniff, sniff</em></p>
<p>I think that my class, the 2008-ers, are probably the ones that are seriously slackers compared to the classes of 2007 and 2006.</p>
<p>just think of it as less competition ;)</p>
<p>my school, the class of 2007 was probably the greatest ever in our history. No other class even comes close.</p>
<p>^^ yeah I agree. This year there were Ivy acceptances coming out of everywhere!!</p>
<p>In my school, the class of 2007 had a few really bright students. But class of 2008 has a lot of students with mediocre gpa's but relatively high SAT scores and some with very high gpa's and low SAT's...</p>
<p>i dont know... im class of 2008 and it seems that in my school, the 08ers are REALLY REALLY smart but they dont apply themselves... super slackers x 10000</p>
<p>i think the class is really polarized.. either really competitive or nonchalant about college</p>
<p>I just hope...</p>
<p>lol..yea me too!</p>