<h1>54 I used the term “school” which may have been mistaken for college. I am inquiring about high schools and their formulae.</h1>
<p>How about Occupy College Admissions? In short, make the reaches lose their low percentages of acceptances by just NOT applying. Many in this thread have labeled the reaches as lotteries; and, think about that term – which basically means no chance to win/be accepted. If you stay away from the lottery reaches, you diminish their application base, which decreases their numbers of rejections, which increases their acceptance rate, which decreases their scales for USNW listings, which lowers their name in the public’s perspective. There is power to the applicant, especially when the action is taken in droves. </p>
<p>BTW: to those thinking of the lotteries – here is an eerie statistic. If all of the perfect SAT scores were to attend a lottery school, there would be overcrowding. The perfect SAT group outnumbers the freshmen classes at the Ivies plus those few others by a margin. Taking that into perspective, what are the chances for the 700/700/700 SAT kid with a 4.0 who is not a minority, and who has no athletic, no musical nor other skills to offer to the university? Lottery sounds like an appropriate term.</p>