Hurricane Harvey kept thousands of Texas students out of school for nearly a month. Displaced many students who have been assigned to new schools and school districts, access to their records was hindered. Ability to apply may actually have slowed down the application process. Most Texas schools extended application deadlines and I know that personally many of the schools that my DD applied to extended an offer to work with her to get her applications completed. Not sure how the natural disasters experienced this year would have increased applications, most were struggling to get things done, I don’t really see a correlation to an extension of deadlines by a month opening up a big window that would allow a significant number more applicants.