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" As if getting into the university of your choice wasn&amp;#039;t stressful enough, it just got a whole lot more complicated. It&amp;#039;s always been known that colleges extend admission offers selectively; however, according to nytimes.com, universities \u2014 both public and private \u2014 have developed a new method to figure out who is serious about their institutions.  High school seniors are no longer the only ones anxious about college acceptances! With the economy in a downturn at the moment, colleges are trying to develop new techniques on how to determine how many students they will be accepting to their schools and how many students will, in turn, accept them. Usually colleges rely on statistics to predict which students will accept their offers to attend, but considering the economy, parents and students alike are now looking for an education with a good bargain.  In the past, institutions had the luxury of being much more selective of the students admitted because of the high application rates. However, times have changed. Colleges will now be admitting more students, offering more financial aid packages, and maybe, in some cases, sending their acceptance letters a few weeks earlier. Universities have been trying to cut back on the number of students they accept early, believing they would be able to end up with a more economically diverse freshman class.  So what does this mean for high school seniors? Well, even though most acceptance letters have already been sent out, it&amp;#039;s never too late to let a university know your intentions. Send in e-mails, write letters, have meetings: Let them know that this is the college that you want to attend. As for the upcoming senior class, hopefully the colleges will have worked out their methods in such a way that most students and their parents will come to understand more clearly. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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