College Acceptance Rates

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@Happytimes2001

Groundwork2022 There are always people who say that it’s harder to get into Harvard/Ivy than stay in. They are never graduates of these schools. CC is also replete with stories of someone hiring a Harvard grad that didn’t meet their standard, or someone with a state U degree who was infinitely more successful than the Harvard/Ivy grad. Often they are basing success on the amount of $ or title of the person. Single data points are not formulas.

Harvard has a graduation rate of 97%. That means that, at very least, 88% of the students in the bottom 25% of Harvard’s accepted students are graduating successfully. Based on the data from the Harvard, 85% of the students who are, academically, at the top 10% of the Harvard applicants are rejected.

So, the success rate of the top 10% of Harvard applicants at admissions is 15%, but the success rate of the bottom 40% of applicants at graduation is 88%.

Ergo - it is MUCH easier to graduate from Harvard than it is to be accepted.

Since, based again on the Harvard lawsuit data, the majority of these bottom 40% of applicants were heavily hooked, it is not even as though they were picked because of hidden intellectual depths which were revealed by the perception of the AOs.