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<p>It’s brutal. </p>
<p>Jim Bock in the admissions office has to be shocked at a 20% increase in applications over last year. That’s not a number that anyone would predict, although they probably saw it coming with a huge increase in early decision apps.</p>
<p>I can’t really pinpoint anything that would drive that kind of increase. There were no changes in any “rankings”. The only thing I can really figure is that the admissions masssacres at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, MIT over the last couple of years have gotten students and guidance counselors rethinking their overall strategies. I don’t know…</p>