Paul KedroskyUCLA has received 169,800 applications for fall of 2023 admission. That simply boggles my mind. And, of course, given the perversity of higher education as luxury good these days, the more selective it becomes, the more selective it will become, as people are drive to apply to school that gives them a cache of exclusivity.
William Gunn@paul At that volume, there's got to be multiple layers of filtering before any human eye sees an application, implying an industry of people who know how the filters work & sell that knowledge to parents, most of whom don't even know to look for these services or think they're scams (and probably a bunch are).
@williamgunn That is exactly right, hence, as you say, the huge industry in crafting applications that can transit those algorithmic filters.
@paul So how would someone, with no insider knowledge, sort the actual scams from the relatively more legit sellers of this knowledge?
@williamgunn I don't know, honestly, despite have two kids in UC schools. That I have no idea how that happened is ... weirdly stressful.
@paul It's perhaps more stressful that I have about 4 years to try to figure it out & smart people like you didn't figure it out. 😬