[el_benhameen]

Was just reading about how common that trend is this year. It seems that the n is much greater than 1: https://news.yahoo.com/uc-explains-admissions-decisions-reco...

I’m sorry about your kid’s rejection letter. Larger societal trends aside, that’s not a fun experience.

[jnwatson]

Thank you for that link. From the article, it seems there's also a longer-trend issue that is at play in my daughter's case. If more students are applying for the same 10 STEM majors, there's an additional selection bias against those.