<p>Interesting. Here in Minnesota, there are something like a dozen a year who enroll at Harvard, and I hear of MIT enrollees who also received acceptances from Harvard. Applications number in the low hundreds for most of those colleges. Carnegie Mellon startled me this year by saying in a regional information session here that “hundreds” of students from Minnesota apply to CMU every year, but after friends helped me work through the math, taking into account CMU’s yield, I am sure that is true. </p>
<p>One way to check some of these figures is to look at the state reports for each state for the SAT and ACT, because near the end of each state report document will be numbers of test reports sent in to various colleges, for one page of the most frequently applied-to colleges. </p>
<p><a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools; </p>
<p><a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools; </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.act.org/news/data/07/pdf/states/Utah.pdf[/url]”>http://www.act.org/news/data/07/pdf/states/Utah.pdf</a> </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.act.org/news/data/07/pdf/states/Idaho.pdf[/url]”>http://www.act.org/news/data/07/pdf/states/Idaho.pdf</a></p>