<p>You cannot be serious. 36k? That is SO much!!!</p>
<p>I know…it was like a slap in the face. But think about it, it’s highly likely. Duke officially said they got 26,000 apps this year. That’s how much Yale got last year… HYP must have more.</p>
<p>WOW. 10char</p>
<p>Lol don’t worry Ohio State has, what, 50,000 students (not applicants, students). :)</p>
<p>PS: I predict HY get 30,000 to 33,000 this year.</p>
<p>tristan- I hope to GOD that stat is false.
WHY WHY WHY!!! I hate being born this late 
10 years ago we would have all gotten in. 20 years ago asians were the beneficiaries of AA 
HAHAHAHA</p>
<p>OMG!! I just read the article and one of the students mentioned
I KNOW HER!! hahaha what a nice coincidence</p>
<p>^One of my CC friends was once featured in a YDN article :]</p>
<p>
nope apparently not</p>
<p>[A</a> first for Harvard | Harvard Gazette Online](<a href=“http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/01/a-first-for-harvard/]A”>http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/01/a-first-for-harvard/)</p>
<p>^I guess that’s not so bad. The number of applicants for the U of Chicago increased by 42% this year:(</p>
<p>[Chicago?s</a> 42% Applicant Jump to Aid Harvard Rivalry (Update1) - BusinessWeek](<a href=“http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-01-14/chicago-sees-42-applicant-jump-in-competition-with-harvard.html]Chicago?s”>Businessweek - Bloomberg)</p>
<p>Also from the article:</p>
<p>“Harvard received about 30,500 applications for undergraduate admission, about 5 percent more than last year, William Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid, said today in a statement. Brown’s applications increased 20 percent to about 30,000, James Miller, dean of admission, said in an interview.”</p>
<p>that’s weird huh? why the increase in duke, uchicago, brown? and not (presumably) HYP?</p>
<p>Ahhhhhh thank god!! That means Yale can’t have been THAT high. </p>
<p>Whew. Best news I’ve heard all week.</p>
<p>Hmmm maybe people feel like those places are more “likely” to get in? Since they also are need blind and give lots of FA… Idk, lol.</p>
<p>^yeah, but it’s still going to be ~5%. NOT helpful! ;)</p>
<p>STILL, 36,000?!? I doubt the actual will be much lower than that. where did all those apps come from??
I thought that 25,000 apps [for last year] was a lot. this does not help my yale anxiety at allll</p>
<p>Well some people are probably applying just to see if they get in. I know some people from before from my school did that. So the actual number of competitive applicants might be lower.
That might help some XD</p>
<p>^ I doubt the number of truly competitive applicants varies that much from year to year. You can only have so many outstanding people. It’s really just the amount of “Hail Mary” apps that varies.</p>
<p>Yea…there are probably tons of applicants like me with academic indexes of 4 that have no shot. :(</p>
<p>wishful thinking. i tend to disagree. more immigrants=better applicants.</p>
<p>Yes, except they can’t admit a class of only immigrants. And “better” is quantifiable only in terms of grades and scores, and it’s obvious that college admissions at schools like Yale is based on far more than just that. People with the type of drive, character, and personality traits aren’t that easy to come by. Sure, children of immigrants may work harder, but that type of spark and vitality doesn’t necessarily come from hard work.</p>
<p>Sometimes, I do question the reason why I really want to go to such prestigious schools when I would be as silly as I am in any other school.</p>
<p>The key is not education; the key is the educated. </p>
<p>And in the end, many and many great human beings never went to college, let alone one of the big 8 or the big 10 or whatever. I guess when you die, the angels don’t ask whether or not you went to Harvard, and the people don’t care if you graduated from Yale. </p>
<p>Wow, That feels good, and so back to Brown to wait for the miracle :)</p>