What exactly are individual top colleges looking for?

ucbalumnus
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 06:40:27 +0000

TiggerDad:

As to the OP’s question, here are some of what top, elite colleges are looking for:

They want about 10-15% of URM; 10-25% recruited athletes; 10-25% legacies; 2-5% offsprings of generous donors; 1-2% offsprings of celebrities and politicians; 1-3% offsprings of faculty; and 1-3% other influential connections. Even by conservative account, these easily make up at least 50% of each year’s class.

Wouldn’t the percentage of athletes be inversely correlated to the size of the school? For example, if Cornell and Dartmouth field teams in the same sports, they need the same number of athletes, but that number is a smaller percentage of Cornell’s students than it is of Dartmouth’s students.