<p>"in my school, about 44% of the 180 graduating kids in year 2007 at my school got into ivy league</p>
<p>here's the breakdown of acceptances (for class of 2007)</p>
<p>7 Harvard
27 Cornell
5 Yale
5 Brown
8 Columbia
7 Dartmouth
5 Princeton"</p>
<p>I'm sorry, you list 64 acceptances - not even close to 44% of 180. Not to mention, there must be a great deal of overlap (one kidding being accepted to Harvard, Brown, and Columbia, etc). I'm a bit confused, am I missing something?</p>
<p>niiiice, unregistered. and nice username. :)
there i go again with the smilies. god, it makes me SO MAD to think that some people's chances are shot just because, like jsc08 said, two legacies happen to be in the same grade. i can't even imagine circumstances like that for myself: the early action pool from my school is rather weak; I don't want to toot my own horn, but I guess that's what I'll do: I think that if anyone from my school gets in scea, it'll be me. of course, that doesn't mean i WILL get in, by any means. ... idk, i could be completely wrong and someone random could get in... but there aren't that many applying to yale from my school in the first place. </p>
<p>that's the situation I face; completely benign, and i'm freaking out as much as I am.... I just can't believe the s*** the rest of you go through; it would freak me out so much. you have so much perseverance. like the person who bubbled in a row wrong on the math section of the SAT and jeopardized his/her score. or the person who's applying despite legacies and sports acceptances galore in his/her year. bravo to all of you. you'll end up in a place that serves you very well.</p>
<p>those were my assumptions of about how many kids were in the grade.</p>
<p>all i remember is that there was 44% who got accepted into ivies, and our school (hunter) has a pretty small graduating class every year between 160-180</p>
<p>i looked up on our school website and the actual acceptances are:
Harvard: 8
Cornell: 27
Yale: 5
Dartmouth: 9
Princeton: 7
Brown: 5
Columbia: 7</p>
<p>Graduating Class: 168
~ 40%</p>
<p>whatever, the point im making is that as long as youre perfect for a certain context, they dont consider how many studnets in yur school got in AS MUCH</p>
<p>You're still not making much sense to me. You listed 68 total acceptances there, in a graduating class of 168. Those 68 acceptances could have been between just 20 students, however. I sincerely doubt that each of those 68 total acceptances went to a different student, so I don't see how it would be possible that 40% of your school's class of 2007 got accepted into one of the Ivy League schools. Of course it's still quite impressive, but you seem to be fudging numbers quite a bit.</p>
<p>ouch, man. may, your point is (perhaps) valid, but you're making it the wrong way. And, btw, sadly, many students who are "perfect for a certain context" (whatever that means) get left in the dust each year due to invisible/flexible "quotas" for each school. They do exist, and they perpetuate injustice.</p>
<p>Ohhh, let it be. The point is, his school sends a lot of kids to ivies. The end. Awesomeness.</p>