[ilikehurdles]

I applied to colleges back in 2006/7. Did something drastic happen to college application competitiveness in the last decade or so? I'd understand getting only rejections if he only applied to Ivys or something; but, I have a hard time accepting that he's anywhere outside of the caliber of the top 10% of applicants. Is it because of the degree programs he applied to?

[akhilcacharya]

I'm not super impressed by his stats, I had a better class rank and GPA and SAT and I was never elite school material but his extra-curriculars are pretty good. The problem being that most of these schools want an overarching theme in their application.