Waste of time for unhooked people to apply with <2100 SAT and not top 10% of class?

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<p>Note that only 26% of the freshman class at Princeton submitted class rank, according to the 2012 CDS. For accurate class rank comparisons, you’d need to also consider the vast majority that did not submit rank.</p>

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If stats like this exist for past years at any of the highly selective schools, please point me in their direction – I’d love to see them.

Data is available for some highly selective schools. For example, Brown and Stanford publish admit rate and number of applicants for different SAT/GPA/Rank. Links are below. I haven’t seen similar data for Princeton, aside from a 2004 Avery/Harvard study that graphed chance of admission by SAT percentile. The graph is at <a href=“http://s13.postimg.org/e60llqzvb/sat.jpg[/url]”>http://s13.postimg.org/e60llqzvb/sat.jpg&lt;/a&gt; . The graphed survey participants were all students from well known HSs who had GPA ranks near the top of their HS class.</p>

<p>The admission facts for Brown at [Admission</a> Facts | Undergraduate Admission](<a href=“Undergraduate Admission | Brown University”>Undergraduate Admission | Brown University) mention a 7.2% acceptance rate for a 26-28 ACT (similar percentile to ~1830 to ~1950 SAT) vs 9.2% for all students. The Stanford admissions profile at [Applicant</a> Profile : Stanford University](<a href=“Page Not Found : Stanford University”>Page Not Found : Stanford University) mentions a 3% acceptance rate for 24-29 ACT (similar percentile to ~1720 to ~2000 SAT) vs 5.7% for all students. I’m focusing on ACT because combined SAT score isn’t available.</p>