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I can't find undergrad's publications statistics (What % of undergrads end up getting a 1st/2nd author publication in a academic journal?), so I can't really compare to HYP.
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At MIT, about a fifth of undergrads end up getting published an an academic journal. (And the number among science majors alone is likely considerably higher -- engineers don't really seem to publish.) I ended up getting a 5th author publication in a very good journal in my field, and writing a first author paper of my own, which hasn't been published. I think the 5th author pub is more valuable for my CV than the 1st author pub will be if it's ever published.
Everybody who wants to do research can do research. Officially, about 80% of students participate in UROP, but that number is a low estimate because not everybody who has a research job has UROP funds, and those people don't have to report to the UROP office. I suspect that the actual number of students who have a research job at some point is very close to 100%.