<p>About 10% of all seniors who got an 800 in CR applied and were admitted to Harvard last year.</p>
<p>If we knew how many of these people applied to Harvard, it would be possible to calculate an approximate admit rate for 800 scorers (and vice versa).</p>
<p>Wow… I wonder if Harvard accepts such a relatively high % of 800’ers deliberately? (assuming a huge % doesn’t apply in the first place)</p>
<p>You’ve just made me even more nervous for April 7, because I think I may have an 800 CR. I’ve never even considered applying to Harvard, though.</p>
<p>Not sure thats right, I got an 820 last year and was rejected.</p>
<p>Given the holistic nature of admissions I doubt the high % of 800ers is intentional. I’m curious though, where did you get this figure of 10%? </p>
<p>I’ve looked long and hard for admissions data, but usually colleges only release detailed data on students who matriculate. It’s much, much harder to find data on who was accepted and who applied–so approximating the admit rate for 800 scorers might be a pretty difficult task.</p>
<p>Admittedly, I did make assumptions - the number is probably a few percent off in one direction or another. And if anything is wrong with the methodology (other than the hopeless uncertainty) the numbers could be really far off.</p>
<p>Harvard’s middle 50% of CR scorers is 800 on the top end, so at least 25% of Harvard students had an 800.</p>
<p>7,861 seniors entering college had an 800.</p>
<p>Harvard’s yield rate is 79% (this number is a few years old). It is probably significantly lower for perfect scorers, because they are more likely to get into schools like YPSM that put up a decent cross-admit fight against Harvard, and get prestigious merit scholarships at schools like Duke.</p>
<p>Harvard had something like 1680 entering last year (couldn’t find an exact number that matriculated).</p>
<p>A minimum of 7% when you calculate it out (hah, 800 scorers match the overall admit rate regardless of whether they apply). 10% comes from a fairly conservative increase of the 25% figure and decrease of the yield rate.</p>
<p>If you postulate that most people who score 800 on CR intend to major in humanities, Yale and Stanford actually beat Harvard in yield. I’m not comfortable with making that assumption, but if you do, you could come up with a pretty big figure.</p>
<p>I’m guessing that this is partially intentional, but the majority of 800 scorers on CR had very high GPA’s and probably wrote really good essays so I’d say that having the high score just usually goes with an overall good application.</p>
<p>I have an 800 in CR!! =D hopefully that gives me a leg up (though I sincerely doubt it)
you never know ;)</p>
<p>“Not sure thats right, I got an 820 last year and was rejected.” somehow that seems unlikely TyZod -_-</p>
<p>no, i got an 850 last year - and was admitted twice to harvard.</p>