Plunging acceptance rates

jasonInNy
Sat, 13 Nov 2010 12:31:31 +0000

^^^ Wrong

NUMBER 1 reason: HYP dropped ED. Competition explodes exponentially as a result.

This forces kids USAMO kids who 2600 SAT scores and a 4.3 UW GPA to apply to 20 schools and driving down the yield. The smart kids can no longer depend on the ED accept at Harvard. Now you have these kids in the application pool against normal kids.

Its not the influxes of Asians. Its not the SAT test scores going up (its curved every year to ensure the same percentile of people get the same scores).

I think Michelle Hernandez explained this pretty well.