Handala92

^^idk mifune, demographics say the peak of high school grads was LAST year and this year should have been a little easier. Technically, it is, as not too many people applied to the middle tier schools, those apps ALL went down, but as for HYPSM Columbia Penn etc, i don't think those rates will go back to normal, as its just a new age and everyone wants that Harvard degree.

mifune

Yes, I definitely do not presume a perfect correlation between demographics and the number of applicants. Other factors lead to the applicant increase despite a decrease in the sheer number of students graduating from high school. Economic recessions draw more applicants and their families to universities with munificent financial aid initiatives. Moreover, marketing among colleges is becoming increasingly more strategic not only in the volume of college-to-student contact but in order to appeal to particular sub-populations such as under-represented minorities and low-income students.