<p>You guys look at it as if the OP only has 1 shot. </p>
<p>He has 7. Assume an extremely pessimistic chance of 30%, well below what is predicted for SAT score, GPA, and EC (harvard accepts around 40-50% of 2400’s). His chances of not getting into a single top 7 school (HYP, Columbia, Stanz, MIT, Penn) are .70^(7). This is 8%. If we could clone 100 OP’s, I’d estimate 92 of them would end up at the best colleges lol.</p>
<p>@T26E4. Can you dig up that statistic? It is to my knowledge that HYP accepts close to 40-50% of perfect scorers. They accept 20% of kids in the 2300-2400 range sure. But the increase in admit rate as you move from 2300 to 2400 is exponential. The guy with like 5000 posts from my year did a statistical study with common set data or something.</p>