Boy, isn’t this the truth!
Johns Hopkins just admitted 1,586 new students from a pool of 31,500 applicants fir an acceptance rate of 5%. Cornell just accepted 4,908 students from an applicant pool of 49,118 for an acceptance rate of 10.7%. And who even applies to these kinds of schools except students who are at or close to the top of their class in the first place?
These numbers are just staggering when we look at the number of top applicants who were left by the wayside. Just in terms of raw numbers it’s overwhelming. There simply aren’t enough seats for all of the qualified applicants out there.
Submitting an application to schools which only accept 5-15% of their applicants is like buying a lottery ticket and hoping you have a winner. The odds are very long.