GT admissions does not mess around

SlimJim005
Tue, 22 Jan 2019 20:02:04 +0000

@parentofsix I am not sure when “your day” was, but from what I have heard from my parents, it was much easier in the mid '80s through the '90s because the Baby Boomers disappeared from the college scene around 1982 or so, and there were not as many kids applying to a lot of these competitive schools. The competitiveness of these applications really picked up in the last 20 years, when the applications started increasing dramatically. Part was due to the broader acceptance of the Common App, which made it easier to apply to multiple schools; part due to the increasing numbers of students from population growth; and part due to the enormous number of foreign nationals and competitive-college-seeking-Asians that didn’t exist in the US 30 years ago.