<p>At your high school, did the Ivies pick the best and most qualified students? Did they manage to sort out the true intellectuals from the grunts? Did they see through the resume builders or even padders?</p>
<p>My school didn't have anybody admitted to Ivies. The top students all went to UNC Chapel Hill instead. :)</p>
<p>Just as good! The question could also include top schools in general.</p>
<p>Actually at ours they did. Only one kid got in, two applied. He's like the only kid admitted to an Ivy in school history I think. But he was the most qualified, he's crazy when it comes to finance, and Wharton was his dream. UPenn looked past the fact of his slightly lower class rank. Our would be Salutatorian was forced to apply Ivy because the school admin thought she was the best candidate, but the kids in the top ranks at our school are bull ****. Needless to say she didnt get in.</p>
<p>I think that's usually true at our high school. I've noticed tht the few students who get into Ivies or equivalent tend not to be the ones who rack up all the gung ho/rah rah/grind awards at the end, and are not usually val/sal. they tend to be the think-outside-the-box people.</p>
<p>Only 10ish students from my high school applied for US colleges. Their class rank range from 1% to 20%, only applied top 10's and every student seems to have been accepted by ivies.
Princeton takes 3, harvard, dartmouth, columbia, yale, upenn, cornell 1 each, stanford 3. Amherst 1 and swarthmore 1.</p>
<p>I went to a feeder (30% went top 20), and mostly it went in line but there were some exceptions both ways. Some top kids (mostly who didn't apply to enough places) didn't get in, and some slightly mediocre academic kids with incredible hooks (dad on board of trustees, star football player, etc) got into top 10 schools.</p>
<p>deserving kids got into ivies, but less deserving ones (that are smart, but definitely not as smart / involved in ECs / have scores/awards/all that jazz) got into the top top ivies.</p>
<p>For the most part, people generally got in where they deserved to. Only exception is this resume-padding gunner that got into WUSTL. I guess they find it hard to reject people just like them though.</p>
<p>"gunner"</p>
<p>arsenal?</p>
<p>In short, no.
Most of the deserving kids at our school did not get into where they deserved to be. And some undeserving ones got into top top schools.</p>
<p>If I go on about this though, it'll end up as a tirade. So I'll just stop. :)</p>
<ol>
<li>Gunner</li>
</ol>
<p>A person who is competitive,overly-ambitious and substantially exceeds minimum requirements. A gunner will compromise his/her peer relationships and/or reputation among peers in order to obtain recognition and praise from his/her superiors.</p>
<p>That chic in the front row of our class who always raises her hand, takes on additional assignments, and wrote a 25 page answer on our final when all that was required was 10 pages is such a gunner.</p>
<p>haha, aight I was thinking English football</p>
<p>Ivies, in my opinion, did a fantastic job of selecting students this year at my school. In my public highschool, we have a senior class of ~ 450 and we got (including non-ivies):</p>
<p>-2 Harvard
-1 Yale
-1 Dartmouth
-2 Rice (we're Texans btw)
-2 Cornell</p>
<p>The two Harvard acceptees are among the most humble people in school, and friendliest; they are so humble that they didn't even tell anyone about it, and were not sure on whether they wanted to go or not. Dartmouth guy is friendly, but a typical Japanese quiet guy--he's going to Rice with me. Yale person is friendly, but I dislike her because she is the grade nazi valedicatorian, the resume-padder, but hard worker atleast. These people simply love to learn.</p>
<p>At my IB school we got 6 into ivies out of 30 people with 12 into top 25. I don't think I met a single person that got into a top 25 in either my IB or my public school that doesn't deserve it and is a stuck-up grade grubber with the exception of about 2 people who are still great.</p>
<p>My school as 1 in Harvard and 1 in Princeton. The Princeton kid is a certifiable genius...he is our state AP scholar which is really impressive for our little old school. The kid who got into Harvard is a very well rounded kid with many ECs in sports, academics, and science.</p>
<p>My school had 1 Harvard, some at Columbia, some at Yale, and others I'm not sure of.</p>
<p>my school had 1 harvard, 1 yale, 2 cornell, 2 brown, 1 columbia, 1 wash u, 2 haverford, 2 tufts, 4 BC, 5 NYU, 2 Duke, 2 northwestern...I think we did pretty well</p>
<p>1 Harvard
1 Yale
3 Brown
1 Dartmouth
2 Upenn
0 Cornell
0 Princeton
Several at Columbia</p>
<p>4 Stanford
3 MIT
A lot at University of Chicago</p>
<p>uhhhh. we had 1 georgetown.
._.
at least last year we had 1 duke.</p>
<p>we're only a third year school though, but still. blehh.</p>
<p>my friend applied to like all ivies and bc. he got rejected everywhere except bc...</p>
<p>my school did amazingly well this year. In the previous two years nobody got into ivies- one person got into duke, but thats it. This year we had</p>
<p>2 Brown
3 Cornell
2 Dartmouth
1 JHU
5 Northwestern
2 Georgetown
3 Amherst</p>
<p>Some of those overlap, but its still awesome for us. Of the people accepted to Ivy Leagues, all were really great and worthy. However, there were people who were just as if not more worthy and not accepted, so who knows.</p>