<p>It is a waste of time for most people. I think it’s a terrible game that the top schools are playing. All in the name of rankings. If there wasn’t a huge applicant pool then it couldn’t claim to be selective so it whips the kids into a frenzy, blind with the belief that the holistic admission process will save them </p>
<p>BTW the hail grail of stats is the information of the rejected candidates. I don’t think schools release much if any. But I suspect that if they did it would prove your point.</p>