<p>From what I have read on this forum, it is the top 10% of accepted applicants. There were 16,000 applicants this year for EA and only a small fraction were accepted, all of them with great backgrounds. Then take 10% of these exceptional students. </p>
<p>Honors would have been great, but at least you are getting a decent scholarship that covers almost half the tuition. I saw some other great candidates in the main thread who didn’t even get that.</p>