<p>Well lets think about it. According to the psat, 55,000 students are commened or higher. So we can expect most of these students compete for top spots. Also there are some who just did bad on the psat, but they do well on sat etc. However not all the 55,000 go to tops, so lets say there are 55,000 students who are gonna be in tops. WEll there are 8 ivies, with avg 1,500 frosh. maybe more. so 8*1,500 =120000. For teh top 25 colleges say, the rest 17 take avg 2,000 (coservative guess?) -34,000
12,000+34,000=46,000 spots left for top universitites
this is extremly conservative guess. I am guessinf it will be more than 55,000. Though, # of people applying is increasing, and i would be cool with an increase in spots, there are so many universities that its not urgent right?
Well then there are left the liberal arts colleges, more than supplying the need for spots.</p>