<p>Maybe admissions have a lot to do with family name and reputation. Or just big daddy making big contribution to the University</p>
<p>Development admits do take up part of the admitted percentage, that is certain.</p>
<p>Juancho, you remind me of a colombian place called mateo parrilla. anyway I agree with you. a lot of acceptance is from where you come from and what power you have on your back.</p>
<p>O why yes Mateo parrilla tis also familiar to me but not as well liked... Good comment power shifts everything</p>
<p>dear mr parrilla, i do not undesrtand your reply.... </p>
<p>ps. where is your restraunt?</p>
<p>Please forgive my unperfected english... I meant that power makes a very big influence when taking life changing decisions... It is located near the highway on the 116</p>
<p>wow i agree with you also... </p>
<p>ill visit you someday </p>
<p>ciao</p>
<p>A friend of mine got into practically every Ivy and several Ivy equivalents. I think the acceptance rates are low becuase there's a ton of people out there with simply unrealistic expectations. You cant just be great and get into an Ivy - you have to be super-human.</p>
<p>My boy Leroy (nhr name) got 800 verbal, 800 math II, 2 other SAT II 800's, 35 on the ACT, Presidential Scholar finalist (2700 out of 2.8 million) 4.35 GPA, 5's on all his AP exams (4 or 5 of them) including physics (only one in his school of 2000). Oh yeah did community service, too! Great teacher recs.
HYPSDDMIT (all ivys) said no thanks. Got Wash U, wait list at Rice, and all UC's.
What does it take??? BTW, UCLA had 55,000 applicants. Glad I went in the 60's - Don't think I could have made it in now. Pity</p>
<p>One other thing. The Ivys all ask if family members went there - I think it matters.</p>
<p>Plus, if my parents can afford to donate to the schools, they would take me.</p>
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sry DaDad if I'm digressing a bit, but what do the 2 "D"s stand for? I know HYPS=Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, & I'm assuming MIT=Mass. In. Tech. not an acronym for a group of colleges...</p>
<p>i think the two Ds are for Duke and Dartmouth</p>
<p>I think DD stands for Dartmouth and Duke.</p>
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It doesn't.</p>
<p>Harvard's yield has been in the 69/70% percentile for the last 10 years - unbelievable by any other school standards. </p>
<p>I know since I worked in Harvard administration for 12 years, and I sincerely doubt that only 1900 plus were accepted for 1680 spaces.</p>
<p>When I worked there though, the acceptance rate was a whopping 16%. Now it is 7.1% so all is new.This year is unlike any other.Of course my two children are seniors this year and next... the highest number of students ever.
Why didn't I know? I had my children very young. I should have waited 5 years to give each an edge... oh well.</p>
<p>I was a director of college guidance ten years ago and my daughter who is a senior this year would have been accepted by the Ivies back in the day. This year, she got into 6 of the 9 schools to which she applied, was waitlisted by one and rejected by 2. The schools that rejected her would have admitted her in a second back in the day.</p>
<p>Hang in there everyone,</p>
<p>Lucky30</p>
<p>lucky30:</p>
<p>I think that's an interesting point you make, about how your daughter would have gotten in "in a second back in the day." </p>
<p>I definitely think that's something important to consider. My cousin went to Yale but graduated 10 years ago. When I didn't get in there, I consoled myself by saying that back when he got in, I would have gotten in too! Oh the craziness of college admissions.</p>
<p>Frankly, I'm surprised by some of the rejections this year. At our large public school, several of the very brightest with high SATs, perfect GPAs, 10-12 APs were rejected by HYP, but accepted by Duke, Penn, Johns, WashU, etc. Only a bellicose African girl with significantly lower scores, GPA, etc. made HYP. Needless to say, the kids are steamed. Difficult to explain to them that some of these institutions do not accept purely on merit and talent. Maybe this is the first big life lesson. Come May, it should be interesting to see this year's yield at HYP.</p>
<p>Haha DaDad, Blood is thicker than SATs?
Thats the funniest, most wittiest thing I heard so far on CC.</p>
<p>(haven't read whole thread so sorry if it's already been mentioned)
given these insane acceptance rates and the fact that harvard and princeton have cut EA and more and more seniors are applying to large numbers of schools, how will this affect waitlists?</p>