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Hopkins refuses to give you a committee letter if they think you aren’t a strong applicant. Yale does not do this.</p>
<p>The problem isn’t that you specifically should be afraid of being screened (work hard, get a good GPA, you’ll be fine) - the problem is that screening inflates the acceptance rate. This is how Hopkins gets a 90% acceptance rate and Cornell more like 70%. Hopkins has that bottom 20% not even applying in the first place.</p>
<p>So Yale’s 90%+ acceptance rate, which includes the worst applicants coming out of Yale, is really impressive.</p>