<p>motion12345. Hahaha… You’re funny. I was discussing this yesterday with my daughter. How one increase would be people like her. Those with the very edge of the sort of possible stats. She had a safety, plus a match dream school. So she added some elite schools because of their increased aid for middle income. But, due to a terribly bad semester that dropped her GPA, these schools are pretty much pie-in-the-sky. So I’m SURE this is one level of kid who increases the number of applications. But there is also the other end. Kids who are VERY high achievers who are middle income. THEY never applied before, knowing they would get no aid. So there are some “top of the pile” kids who will be added too.</p>