<p>JHS–re your third point–what about a 3rd category: the people who applied to HYP but didn’t get in just because HYP can’t accept them all? The Ivy adcoms assure us that for 10,000 apps they get, probably 9,000 would be successful and the slimmest of margins, the luck of the the draw or even the mood of the committee that day separates the accepted ones from the not. They assure us they would love to accept most of the applicants…but of course cannot.</p>
<p>I realize there is a lot of overlap in this group b/c these students tend to apply to more than one Ivy, but there are surely a lot of students who have to end up somewhere else…whether next tier privates or honors programs at State Uni.</p>