Future of Ivy Admissions?

thiruvin000
Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:13:19 +0000

I think that Ivy league admissions will blatantly get more competitive each year. More and more people want to get into top schools, and so more and more people will work harder to increase their chances of acceptance. Not only will they work hard academically, but in other areas as well. This is obviously going to raise the bar for applicants, and the quality of students will get higher and higher. Since more people want to get in, and the schools can only admit a certain number of applicants, the acceptance rate will get smaller and smaller.

As for how they will choose the applicants, I think it will more or less similar to how they choose them now. Testing, grades, extracurriculars, sports, volunteering, etc will all still be important.

Financial aid will probably be harder to get because more and more lower income students will be competing for the aid.

Unless the Ivies get larger so they can admit more students, the rate of acceptance will become lower.