<p>You are correct wjb.</p>
<p>None of these admission “statistics” take in to account the number of rejected applicants at any of these schools that had a particular school as their first choice!</p>
<p>Duke had over 20,000 applicants. I am sure that a portion of the Duke applicants applied to HYP. We don’t know how many students applied to Duke as their first choice, and how many rejected Duke applicants didn’t apply to HYP. That is the problem with the comparison (or “preferred” choice) studies. It only looks as students who applied to Duke and HYP. It doesn’t consider all the rejected students who could care less about HYP, or any other school.</p>
<p>There are also cases where a student may be rejected at Duke and accepted at one of the other “comparison” schools.</p>