How many of your classmates are applying to HYPSM/Ivy League colleges?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>There are fifty-seven students in my high school class, and I know fifteen who are applying to these colleges. I go to a college prep school, and I'm sure our councilors are trying to boost the school's reputation. Nevertheless, isn't this an unprecedented number?</p>

<p>Also, do the overall acceptance rates at these colleges represent everyone's chances? For example, do all applicants really have a nine percent chance at Harvard? If there are many unqualified students applying (as there are at my school), then shouldn't the rest of us have better than nine percent chances?</p>

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<p>Yeah 15/57 is an extremely high number of people applying to those top schools. Normally, people who are obviously unqualified would not waste time applying to those top colleges.</p>

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<p>about 90-100 out of 375 at my school are applying to an ivy or duke, stanford, MIT or Caltech. It's a really competitive public school.</p>

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<p>about 41/130 for ivys
and about 45/130 counting stanford and duke.</p>

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<p>Wow, the class above me (I'm a junior) has about 10ish people applying to Ivies out of 160ish, and 10 might be pushing it.</p>

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<p>our school probably just has 30 out of 376, and we have lots of kids with 1500+'s and even one kid with a 1600</p>

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<p>1/442 ... me. :) I'm the only person I know applying to an Ivy League school...one other person is considering it, but I don't know if she is going to apply or not...</p>

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<p>We have 570~ students right now so I can't keep track of everyone.</p>

<p>Last year however, about the same # of students, and the apply/accept rates are:</p>

<p>Harvard 32/5
Yale 29/3
Princeton 24/4
Dartmouth 32/7
Cornell 161/37
Brown 46/9
UPenn 52/8
Columbia 90/15</p>

<p>These are just the ivy league schools, and no doubt about it, there are overlaps...</p>

<p>This year, it should be around the same...</p>

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<p>only me ----</p>

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<p>Eddieee, those look like great numbers. What kind of school do you go to? In my school, which is a fairly competitive public,we are lucky to get a couple of kids a year into any ivy. We've only gotten one into Yale and 2 into Harvard in the last 5 years. We do a good business with Columbia and Cornell though. This year HYPSM seem out of vogue with my class, only 2 applying out of 265. Top kids in my class want Georgetown, NYU, Berkley, and BC.</p>

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<p>It's weird. At my school almost none of the "top" students are applying to any Ivy League or top universities. My school has about 90 students in the senior class. Out of the top 15 students only are applying to Ivy/HYPSM ones Another is applying to Naval Academy. I applied to Wake Forest. And the rest are going to Swiss or German universities. </p>

<p>But the weird thing, its all the mediocre, middle of the pack students who are applying in the greatest number to Ivies. Out of that group like 10-15 are applying to Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Columbia. Its really weird.</p>

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<p>Oh, it's a specialized -- well, not that specialized lol -- high school in New York City.</p>

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<p>i'm guessing stuyvesant or bronx
anyways in my class.
only a 2-3 for early app and probably about 10 for regular</p>

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<p>its just me from my class of 253. Does this work to my advantage or not really?</p>

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<p>class of 449, pretty much everyone in the top 60 is applying to a tier one school, though there are a few exceptions.</p>