Correction to a previous post. I said UCLA acceptance rate was 82 percent in the 80s. A kind poster sent me a correction that it was actually 74 percent early in the decade and there was a different process in selecting a uc back then.
And it wasn’t any knock on a powerhouse like UCLA or the ivies which also had higher rates back then.
It was only a directional tidbit of info to help current parents and students frame a sense of how things have changed as they embark on their search next year. If you think schools like UCLA are anything like it was when we applied, it’s not.