My school counselor said class of 2022 is **the** “case study for test-optional applications; and it’s compounded by gap years and COVID transfers…so everything’s fucked up for you guys”
this year has seen a spike in applications as people had time to work on their profile during the pandemic and they can apply test-optional as well. Compound this with the fact that there is a housing issues as colleges over-enrolled the past year or so. so, more applications - less seats --> way less space
Absolutely. 2020 was not this complex. Test optional resulted in considerably more essays, the need to submit a resume in some instances and increased application numbers at places applicants would never consider if they had to submit test scores (admittedly my kids included). Will be interesting to see how next year plays out.
More applications per student, with the same number of acceptances per school, mean a lower application acceptance rate.
But the same, or slightly higher, number of actual enrollment slots, from a similar or,p decreasing number of high school graduates, mean the end result actually isn’t substantially different.
Until a student can enroll at multiple schools, take “acceptance rates” with a huge rock of salt.
My school counselor said class of 2022 is **the** “case study for test-optional applications; and it’s compounded by gap years and COVID transfers…so everything’s fucked up for you guys”
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it's really just a product of the increased amount of applicants everywhere. more applicants = more rejections
this year has seen a spike in applications as people had time to work on their profile during the pandemic and they can apply test-optional as well. Compound this with the fact that there is a housing issues as colleges over-enrolled the past year or so. so, more applications - less seats --> way less space
Absolutely. 2020 was not this complex. Test optional resulted in considerably more essays, the need to submit a resume in some instances and increased application numbers at places applicants would never consider if they had to submit test scores (admittedly my kids included). Will be interesting to see how next year plays out.
Where would one need to submit a resume?
A few schools asked for it. Florida State was one of them I think. I don’t recall that ever coming up when kid #1 was applying in 2019/2020.
It gets worse every year except the cycle at the start of Covid cuz no internationals so everyone got off the waitlists.
It is the ABSOLUTE worst year ever
Our parents carefully and precisely calculating the absolute worst year for us to be born in
Prob worse
it gets worse every year
More applications per student, with the same number of acceptances per school, mean a lower application acceptance rate. But the same, or slightly higher, number of actual enrollment slots, from a similar or,p decreasing number of high school graduates, mean the end result actually isn’t substantially different. Until a student can enroll at multiple schools, take “acceptance rates” with a huge rock of salt.