<p>Our counselor said something to the effect that the preapplication process was practically invented to inflate the stats of applications and to legitimize schools saying “…applications are running ahead or even with last year” (I doubt they’d mention if they were down as they were coming in and would probably opt to say nothing).</p>
<p>In any event: Are we saying less applied and more were accepted or do we really not have a clue? And how does any of this affect how they will consider RD applicants or doesn’t it?</p>
<p>It seems this entire process has changed SO SO much since our 24 year old went through this only 6 years ago. She wasn’t looking at quite the same set of schools, but it was nothing like this.</p>