Acceptance Rates--Reality Check

mifune
Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:10:57 +0000

At our school, roughly half the kids applying to top Ivies are unqualified, but they (and their overly optimistic parents) enjoy the glamour of the association during the hopeful waiting months.



I have noticed the same within my own school. About ten students each are applying to HYPS, but frankly, they have ACT scores in the low 30s (the SAT is not the popular test of choice here), minor extracurricular activites, and are predominantly of Asian descent.