Getting into Harvard/Yale/Princeton is easy...

coureur
Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:09:02 +0000

As a sophomore at one of the colleges mentioned in the title, I feel like getting into here was a joke compared to the level of difficulty of getting into a top professional school. The acceptance rate at any top law school/med school is significantly lower and the applicant pool is much stronger than those of any undergrad of the country.<<




Right, which is why I laugh when I see someone on CC say turn down that HYPS college acceptance and go to your local college or that little LAC you like for undergrad; you can always go to Harvard for grad school. “Always”? - Yeah, right. Like an acceptance into a Harvard grad or professional school is just going to automatically fall into your lap.




Graduates of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton make up an outrageous proportion of incoming classes at the top professional schools.<<




Which is why those schools are so popular and is also one reason why sometimes it really does matter where you went to college. The CC mantra is that which college you attend doesn’t matter at all - that a degree from Ordinary State U. can take you just as far as one from HYPS. Which is true in theory, but your odds of getting there are not the same.