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Competitive Year for College Acceptance

If you've got a high school senior living under your roof who's been accepted to college they should be feeling really proud of themselves. Not just because they were accepted, but because they were accepted in a year that was ultra competitive. It comes down to the fact that baby boomers had kids and those kids are now trying to get into college. Get this statistic - Harvard turned down more than a thousand applicants with perfect scores on the math portion of the SAT. But this trend goes far beyond the Ivies to schools that aren't used to mailing out stacks of rejection letters. ideastream's Eric Wellman spoke with Susan Dileno, the Vice President of Enrollment Management and Baldwin Wallace College. She told us her school is definitely getting more competitive.