<p>hmm.
is BU need-blind?
offer 100% of need?</p>
<p>what is HYC</p>
<p>he's referring to colleges, so I can only assume that its a less-used acronym for Harvard Yale Columbia</p>
<p>Yes, I thought it might be since I hear HYP. I thought HYC may be Caltech, why Columbia? Is it so hot? On par or close to HYP?</p>
<p>columbia had the lowest admission rates this year for all the ivys
around 9%.</p>
<p>No, it was Harvard at 8.9, Columbia College 8.9 (Columbia 10.4) Yale 9.6, princeton 9.3 or so.</p>
<p>Class of 2011 Acceptance Rates</p>
<p>Columbia- 8.9%
Harvard- 8.97%
Princeton- 9.46%
Yale- 9.63%
Stanford- 10.29%
MIT- 12.32%
Brown- 13.53%
Dartmouth- 15.27%
Penn- 15.95%
Swarthmore- 17%
Williams- 17.4%
Amherst- 17.5%
Duke- 19.7%
Cornell- 20.50%</p>
<p>Again, sorry, Columbia as a whole 10.4. Only columbia college 8.6, so unfair to separate it and compare to Harvard, no?</p>
<p>Regardless, both schools are extremely competitive and ivy leagues. That's probably why they're grouped together. Caltech is a much smaller, non Ivy League school (though certainly of similar caliber)</p>
<p>Also, Caltech is usually abbreviated as just Cal or CIT. Colum doesn't have quite the same ring to it.</p>
<p>Mixed Asian is still Asian. Overrepresented minority.</p>
<p>enderkin, that is a flattering grouping, my son got admitted to Columbia, and I had a feeling it was HYPSM then C as in Columbia. The new grouping is interesting. Granted that Stanford and MIT are tech oriented and not ivy, why not HYP? Of course, in international rankings, Columbia is often ahead of Princeton. Is that the reason?</p>
<p>Enderkin, Cal=Berkeley. CalTech is pretty much known as CIT.</p>
<p>yeah.
well bump.</p>
<p>ramaswami: it all depends on perspective. one person's HYPS is another person's HYPB, CDBP, etc. They're all excellent schools to somebody.
loslobos71: curse my lack of knowledge =(</p>
<p>Try the act.</p>