I will add, though, that I answered the question I assume the OP intended to ask rather than the one asked. UCLA is very difficult to get into. Outstanding students may get into Harvard and not get into UCLA-because UCLA is very difficult to get into. But a student who gets into Harvard is going to be outstanding. Some outstanding students don’t get into UCLA. . But I think the OP was underestimating UCLA and was using it as proxy for a far less competitive school than Harvard. So I answered the question under that assumption. In other words, I answered the question in terms of whether there are average students who, by surprise, get into Ivy League schools.
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