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I’m not quite as optimistic as you are about that. This past year (incoming 2012 freshmen) was the first year since the incoming 2008 class that the acceptance rate wasn’t over 57%, and yet it was still 10% higher than the incoming 2008 class (when I believe FSU cut the number of acceptances significantly due to budget problems?). </p>
<p>It certainly looks like, if 2012’s freshmen class is the start of a trend, that FSU is getting more difficult to be accepted. I’m just not sure that as of yet that it is so cut and dry. Nor do I think that the preeminent universities thing will really change all that much. I’m not sure how many people applying to FSU actually care about that, to be honest.</p>
<p>All that said, yes, you should do anything that you can to help your chances if you are trying to be admitted. That’s the case for any school though, right?</p>