Without the 1990 baby boom...

Applying to College
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<p>Shouldn’t acceptance rates go up in the following years, if only by a couple percent? I know this doesn’t mean now everybody well get into Harvard but should the ivies, for example, get back into the double digits? Consider this chart <a href=“http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/Birthratechart_stretch.PNG[/url]”>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/Birthratechart_stretch.PNG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I dont think so.
I they need to keep a standard. They only had room for so many incoming students per year. They shouldent change it based on how many children were born. If they let more people in, then it wouldent be considered as hard to get into. Besides there are MANY other great schools besides the ivie’s. I wont be applying to any ivy.</p>

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<p>I think OP means that since the total number of kids born in, say, 1991 or 1992 is less than in 1990, there should be fewer people applying to college overall and colleges will be able to have greater acceptance rates DUE TO them accepting the same number of people from a slightly smaller applicant pool.</p>

<p>Anyway … I feel like they’ll probably go up. But not by much. :|</p>

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<p>Elite universities offer the best financial aid. The trend is that more and more people who in the past may not have been able to afford college are now applying and the number of people seeking those financial aid packages and the world class education is increasing with it.</p>

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<p>The decline in the chart is kinda slow, so the number of upper-echelon students who will be applying to schools like Harvard probably won’t really be affected. Sorry to burst your bubble.</p>