<p>I totally agree with the above post.</p>
<p>The statistics used operate under the invalid assumption that college decisions are independent of one another. </p>
<p>However, realistically, that’s not true. If a student gets rejected from one Ivy, it is very likely that the student will be rejected from the other Ivies as well, perhaps for the same reason. </p>
<p>On the other hand, students accepted at one Ivy are very likely to be students accepted at multiple Ivies. </p>
<p>No matter how hard we try, this kind of stuff just can’t be quantified.</p>