Swapped with 20,000 applications to attend in the fall, the University of Washington has had to turn down a record eight thousand potential freshmen for the 2008-2009 academic year.

The Seattle Times is among the news sources reporting on the tidal wave of applications and rejections coming through the Huskie admissions office. The college admissions community is calling it "the baby boom echo." The babies of the baby boomers are starting college.

The wave isn't expected to crest until 2013. So get used to applying to six or eight colleges in order to ensure that you get at least one acceptance letter…

Meany Hall on the campus of the University of Washington

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