@CaliDad2020 Exactly. Chicago’s former Dean of Admissions, Ted O’Neill said he found the race for application numbers to be nihilistic and he said that people took a perverse pleasure in attracting thousands of applicants, only to reject them all. That’s why he refused to join the Common Application. Things changed when he left.
My S. and D. threw out everything they got in the post. “Harvard wants you!” Yes, they want your application but not you as a member of the freshman class. Sad. And I say that having gone to Harvard.