Isn’t all this assuming that number of applicants is either the same or up for fall of 2019? I have heard that there are fewer kids nationally applying to college this year in general – just a generational thing.
My father graduated from HS in 1984, and he said it was briefly easier to get into Elite colleges at that time b/c the Baby Boomers had already gone through and colleges were suddenly faced with fewer applications than they had in the 1970s. I just heard that some schools are seeing the same thing this year, as fewer millennials are out there with HS seniors dropping in number…