<p>^Mal77</p>
<p>You’ve put me in a tough situation.</p>
<p>Because it would be really, really good for me if that’s more normal than I think it is. </p>
<p>But my area, well high school, I can’t comment on all the surrounding towns, just seems to be competitive.</p>
<p>I suppose my area is a tad skewed, though, because HYP tends to accept one person (generally each, although it is often the same person), and that person will have ~1550+ SAT, ~102+ GPA, etc. with routinely great EC’s.</p>
<p>Last year we did have two at Harvard, but one was a story coupled with a very good resume. </p>
<p>Generally, if a college like Harvard is looking to take one person, it goes for the best one, and why shouldn’t it? </p>
<p>So that’s why my expectations may have seemed a little high, but that’s just how I view it, simply.</p>
<p>And I don’t doubt that those people would be Ivy material otherwise, I just don’t know if those same people, all of whom have graduated by now, would be able to get into the same colleges they did nine years ago.</p>