<p>Agree with impetous. Whatever peoples’ opinions are, what will you do with that mish mash of percentages? How much do you think some stranger’s random opinion will do to sate your curiosity/insecurity, etc.?</p>
<p>Any given year, the pool of applicants will be a bell curve. Some shoo-ins, some absolute no-chancers. The rest in the bell. Intuition would tell you that HYPS probably get a bigger share of “dream school but unrealistic applicants”. But so what?</p>
<p>All you can do is polish your file and hope your on the better end of that bell curve. Don’t be like the endless CCers who beg strangers to “chance” them.</p>