How did we know that wave of high number of people decreasing? Still 200+ right? Just curious!
valid question! its purely based on psychology and guess work, not facts
when 413 came - ppl said HALLALEJUAH!!! every guy with a low score (including me) wanted to apply and from May last year till today - this brought the score high (also with other factors) - so this huge surge of ppl will reduce for a short while till the system becomes stable.
its like a sinusoidal wave - a peak of influx came - but now the ppl applying will start to decrease after this bad signal going to the market that 413 is not happening again.
yes it has an effect maybe only to ppl who are less than 420 maybe...who will stop applying now and spend all this money on ECAs/IELTS etc...but the knock on effect will reduce. e.g. the ppl who enter at 420 and since they have done so much efforts, they start to improve scores and invest further - so that effect will reduce now. its anyway a complex system and difficult to predict but at a very high level, its for sure that the surge of applications after seeing a score of 413 is going to reduce some day soon