30,000 applicants: how do they even begin?

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<p>Not one that I can link to. During information sessions, admissions officers from three different Ivy League schools (Yale was one of them; I don’t remember the other two) said that about 75% of applicants are academically qualified. </p>

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<p>Do you have a link to his reasoning? Of course, this is a bit subjective because “competitive” is unclear.</p>