Does HS "competitiveness" matter?

@iwannabe_Brown

That was the case with my graduating class considering out of a little under 690 seniors, the top 25% were accepted to at least one Ivy…and considering they were often the best financial deals and our GC strictly limited the vast majority of us from applying to more than 2 reaches…those who were accepted usually attended. ~1/6 of my graduating class were accepted to Cornell A & S* and Engineering and another 1/7 were accepted to Columbia College alone…more were accepted to Barnard and SEAS*.

  • Back when I was a HS senior in the mid-90s, Cornell A & S and Columbia SEAS accepted plenty of classmates whose GPAs/SAT scores would have precluded them from Cornell Engineering, Barnard, or Columbia College....much less the other Ivies.