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I am guessing that total applications are up while total numbers of applicants are down (and thus there are more applications submitted per person)?
by lainga 8y ago
I am guessing that total applications are up while total numbers of applicants are down (and thus there are more applications submitted per person)?
- barkingcat 8y agoProbably one student would apply to more schools? So even though they had a ton of applications (each school would have seen a rise in # of applications), these schools are chasing down a fewer number of actual people. When I was a student, I applied to 3 colleges (1 nearby, 2 far away), nowadays maybe students apply to 20 or 30?
- credit_guy 8y agoThis sounds like a reasonable explanation, but do colleges have transparency into who applied where nationwide? I would expect a college to know the absolute exact number of its own applicants/applications, but beyond that it should be only an educated guess, as long as the SAT is not in the business of selling everybody their data. But then, who knows, maybe the SAT is doing exactly that.
- jdeibele 8y agoYes. One of the things that's different is that there's now https://www.commonapp.org/ https://www.commonapp.org/ which says "you can apply to more than 700 colleges" using it. To some degree, application fees (paid per college) are still a deterrent but some people qualify for free application fees. There was an article about a young woman who was accepted at more than 100 colleges. http://www.ibtimes.com/teen-gets-accepted-more-100-colleges-2677734 http://www.ibtimes.com/teen-gets-accepted-more-100-colleges-... Applying to X more colleges at $50 or $75 each where one of them may offer 10% or 20% more in aid makes for an interesting decision.
- gowld 8y agoCommon App is at least 20 years old.