Is commonapp making getting into college harder?

Applying to College
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<p>So I was going through a bunch of stats about college acceptance rate. It seems that almost every top uni. has had a decline in admission rate. All the Ivies have went down (except for like 1) and by a lot. The top 4 all have rates lower that 6%!!! When they used to be ~10%.</p>

<p>I feel like it's because of the commonapp, and the ease at which it is to send in an application. Years ago, when supplements were annoying to fill out/find, and there were different apps for every school, people may only have applied to a couple schools. Now, it's so easy to send in an app. (this can be seen by the exponential increase in apps at unis.) that people are applying to 10 - 15 colleges each!!!!</p>

<p>What do you guys think?</p>

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<p>Just because the acceptance rates are down, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s any more difficult for the best students to get in to the top colleges, as a whole. It does probably mean that for marginal students, there is a whole lot more competition and where you used to be able to get into HYP with a legacy and middling test scores, you’re now edged out by more qualified candidates.</p>

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<p>By that logic colleges will also continue to have decreasing yields, which will in turn cause them to accept more students as a whole.</p>

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<p>Possibly. Which might also be why you see some schools starting to accept 30-40% of their class via ED. They want to lock them in ASAP.</p>