With the record number of high school students applying for higher education this year, one would be tempted to think that this ultra-competitive environment would make it easy for admissions counselors to fill their incoming freshman class. Not exactly. This year, for college admissions, it's a year of uncertainty. Admissions deans are doing some fuzzy math to estimate how many students to accept, hoping that these students would ultimately choose their school. These calculations are yielding some crazy results: for example, at one Maryland school, a student with a near perfect GPA was accepted to Yale but rejected from her second-tier safety.
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