Nearly 35,000 applications for the Class of '15.

[hopingdad]

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However, if we assume that 50% of total applicants are the top-stat applicants, it will give them 1,200/17,500=6.9% acceptance rate and for the low-stat all-rounders a 1.7% acceptance rate.

when i posted above, i had no idea about how many high schools in the USA. But as it turns out, it is close to 50% of this year’s number of harvard applicants.

Number of high schools, 2004: 18,435
(NCES, 2005)
Average High School Size: 768
(NCES School Year Report, 2003–2004)

<a href=“http://www.betterhighschools.org/pubs/documents/usfactsheetandreferences_final_080406.pdf[/url]”>http://www.betterhighschools.org/pubs/documents/usfactsheetandreferences_final_080406.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Limiting the ‘top-stat’ to rank#1, the top class-ranked applicants can be assumed to be less than 50% (altho it could be close, if your ranked #1 in your school, which college will you first think about applying?).</p>