How do you know if your child would be competitive at top schools?

theloniusmonk
Sun, 23 Apr 2017 16:35:20 +0000

@SuburbMom - I think we generally agree on the priorities, my point was that if you don’t have a hook, your chance of getting in are not the published figures, they’re much lower. Stanford e.g. has 2000 admits, of those 18% are first generation, and they have like 35 sports teams, you would need to figure another 200 athletes, then URMs that are not first generation, and international students, so I would estimate that brings the class down by half to a 1000 and the remaining 1000 for the 40,000 or so applicants, so really 2.5%.