<p>Nascent: This NY Times article is several years old, but it will give you an idea of the numbers in 2007. Harvard’s admit rate has dropped 3 points since this was written. [A</a> Great Year for Ivy League Schools, but Not So Good for Applicants to Them - New York Times](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/education/04colleges.html]A”>A Great Year for Ivy League Schools, but Not So Good for Applicants to Them - The New York Times) </p>
<p>“Harvard turned down 1,100 student applicants with perfect 800 scores on the SAT math exam. Yale rejected several applicants with perfect 2400 scores on the three-part SAT, and Princeton turned away thousands of high school applicants with 4.0 grade point averages. Needless to say, high school valedictorians were a dime a dozen.”</p>