Let me get this straight

siserune
Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:25:07 +0000

I also remember the acceptance rate of 1600 scorers, when that was the maximum possible, reported as around 50 percent, but that must have been (see graphs in The Early Admissions Game) a combination of very different early and regular decision figures. Princeton would try to lock in academic stars in ED to avoid the cross-admit losses in the regular round, so the ED rate must have been quite high.

The equivalent data point from Harvard: from Nov. 2003 article in the Atlantic Monthly,



Marlyn McGrath-Lewis, the admissions director at Harvard College, says that “the double 800”—a perfect score—“is not that great a distinction anymore.” In each of the past few years Harvard has received more than 500 applications with double-800 scores, and has accepted just under half of them.



So about 250 people a year, or 1 out of 8 accepted students at Harvard, had 1600 on the recentered SAT.