<p>How many students pass high school every year and how many of them get into an Ivy schoo?</p>
<p>Around 80% of students graduate high school in America. Of those, most do not apply to Ivy Leagues. Of the ones who do, depending on which school they apply to, between 6 and 14% (approximately) get in. Overall, a minuscule fraction of a percent of students who graduate high school get into an Ivy League school. </p>
<p>Let’s say if 3.3 million in a year then how many get in Ivy? 250k?</p>
<p>Very rough math - 8 schools x 3,000 offers to attend = 24,000 invited to attend per year.
Some students get multiple offers so perhaps knock that down to 23,000, or so.</p>
<p>Perhaps 0.7% of high school students if your 3.3M is correct.</p>
<p>WOW! It’s almost like hitting jackpot as you can be work as hard as you want but still minuscule chance to get in.</p>
<p>There were 22,592 acceptances last year. Given that there are multiple acceptances the actual number might be 22,000 or so.</p>
<p><a href=“Ivy League Acceptance Rates and Admissions Statistics | Ivy Coach”>http://theivycoach.com/ivy-league-admissions-statistics/</a></p>
<p>I guess a million or so apply from foreign countries? That makes chances even slimmer.</p>
<p>No. You are not really looking at it right. Because those 3.3 million are mostly not applying to ivy leagues. You can look up the amount of applicants, it is public information, as is the number of offers and the number of accepted offers. That’s only 8 colleges to look up. You are only competing against those who apply. And internationals don’t matter to you, you are not really competing with them. They seem to always only make up about 10 pct of the class no matter how many apply. They compete against each other for those slots.</p>
<p>@2018dad, the numbers you cite intrigued me, so I did a little quick internet investigation.</p>
<p>There are less than 14,000 in the combined freshman classes that matriculated this fall. So I would guess that there is likely not much more than 15,000 or 16,000 individual students represented in those 22,592 acceptances. </p>
<p>All this only underscores the main point on this thread - the chances for any individual are extraordinarily slim.</p>
<p>@worryhurry411, we do not have data on the number of international applicants, but it is clearly far less than 1 million. The sum total of applications is <250,000 for all schools, and I would expect a large portion of applicants have applied to two or more. I would be surprised if the total number of individuals applying to at least one Ivy League school is more than 100,000, with US and international applicants combined.</p>
<p>Regarding chance - from within the pool of applicants there are some who have no chance whatsoever. There are also some who will almost assuredly get in. In other words, the chance for entry within the pool of applicants is not equal.</p>
<p>The mistake that students make is that they repeatedly hear entry is crap shoot for “everyone” so therefore anybody can apply and get lucky or, “hit the jackpot”, as HurryWorry411 says. This isn’t the case by any means.</p>
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<p>More than the number that get into a NESCAC school, and to put it all in perspective, Walmart is more exclusive than Harvard…</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/03/28/wal-mart-has-a-lower-acceptance-rate-than-harvard/”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/03/28/wal-mart-has-a-lower-acceptance-rate-than-harvard/</a></p>
<p>The vast majority of college-bound seniors don’t apply to an Ivy and despite what you might think from reading this board, it’s not because many who are perfectly qualified to apply do not, for a variety of reasons that include the fact that there are terrific non-Ivy schools, there are great public universities and there are stellar programs and other schools that might be better.</p>
<p>I don’t think most kids can even name all the Ivies, much less think or care about applying to them.</p>
<p>Getting admitted to any Top 20 university or Top 20 LAC is a “crapshoot”. </p>
<p>Is it even possible for an above average student to get in? I mean like 2100 SAT or let’s say 32 ACT, 3.5 GPA, dozen AP, hokum EC etc. Any miracles happen on Ivy Street?</p>
<p>Not unless there is a miraculously unique and impressive EC involved, or the school decides it needs to include one Ethiopian of Native American heritage in their quota. Something that adds to the class in a way that no other can. </p>
<p>Those stats might be admissible if the HS is an “ivy feeder” top private school that deflates grades.</p>
<p>23000 acceptances probably is like 15k people, not 22k… hyspm have yield rates of about 70%, meaning that (under the admittedly flawed premise that generally a student would only choose another hypsm school) an average of 1.7 hypsm acceptances. i suspect that number is higher for the 8 ivies as well, especially as they are less seletive. most definitely not 22k people for 23k acceptances, 18 is the highest realistic number one can expect. </p>
<p>Why are you so focused on the Ivies? They’re just 8 of the top schools; they aren’t magical. Focusing on Ivies makes as little sense as focusing on schools with one-syllable names. </p>
<p>Anyway, the vast vast majority of high schoolers in this country don’t even have Ivies on their radar screens. They aren’t interested, know them only vaguely, and are choosing schools based on what is affordable, nearby, and offers specific majors of interest. I’m curious as to what led you to believe that hundreds of thousands of kids are flocking to Ivies. Are you international by any chance? </p>
<p>@WorryHurry411 </p>
<p>A million international applicants? Maybe across all eight schools ever, but…</p>
<p>I seriously hope there’s some sort of culture barrier here. Some of the things OP believes are baffling, regardless of whether he/she is a parent or prospective student. Really, 3 million applicants to the Ivies? 250k acceptances? Come on now, lol. </p>