Acceptance Rates--Reality Check

sewhappy
Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:14:13 +0000

Didn’t TokenAdult do an analysis a while back that basically indicated that given the number of kids getting into the tip top schools with very high SATs, they are actually a rather scarce commodity. That is, there aren’t really that many scorers 2300+ to fill up HYPS coffers in their >75 percentile ranges. So just having that plus great grades and a rigorous courseload make your chances far higher than the much ballyhooed <10 percent rates.

His analysis was very data-driven and I may very well have misinterpreted, tho.

No one is a shoe-in, of course. From what my son at H tells me the athletes and legacies and URMs are just as ridiculously brilliant as everyone else.