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Update: Because of a production error, the years under “Class of 2014: Numbers” were reversed and the graph was labeled as “% change” as opposed to “% of accepted students”. The corrections have been made. Thanks to readers “cheeeeeeese,” “Error!” and “anon” for pointing them out.