<p>Even with top-top applicants, Harvard is still a crapshoot. I’ll use my son as an illustration. My son was accepted to: Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, Georgetown, Middlebury, Williams, Pomona, Boston College and Vanderbilt. The only school where he got rejected: Harvard – even though his sister currently attends the school! Does it makes sense? No. What happened? Who knows? Obviously, Harvard was looking for something else, something he didn’t have. Yes, if your test scores are in the top 25% of the admitted student body, your overall chances of being admitted to HYPSM are pretty good – you just may not necessarily get admitted to Harvard.</p>