<p>According to "What It Really Takes to Get Into the Ivy League & Other Highly Selective Colleges" by Chuck Hughes: For the class of 2003 throughout the country, 673 of all students who took the SAT I scores 1600, and approximately two-thirds of them applied to Harvard. Of these applicants, fewer than 200 were offered admission.</p>
<p>For every applicant accepted at the extremely selective schools, there are four or five applicants who are exact duplicates but who are not accepted. It is a crap shoot to a large extent.</p>