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Thoughts on the jump in applications this year

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We've seen Princeton report that they've had a 54% increase in applications YoY. Anecdotally, it seems like the amount and quality of competition at most programs experienced a discrete jump this year. Anyone have any theories for what is driving this? Has private sector hiring slowed that much for quant-ish/fin. services jobs?
 
More applicants from India and Europe applying to US programs this year. Lot of macro economics reasons behind this, for example, the growth of a nascent industry for quant funds in India.
Undergraduate students who went through the YOLO, Robinhood retail stock boom during Covid now finish their BS study and want to go into this industry professionally with a master degree.
Uncertainty in job prospect in other countries, leading more people to do a master degree in the US.
 
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