<p>I second what TrinSF and Arwen1 said as well as what shennie said about the University of Wisconsin. Wonderful school and it has produced a fairly high amount of successful people. But alas, not only is it not an Ivy, but it isn't even a private college and for the people who only care about prestige and not much about the actual education they are receiving, the school is, in their eyes, not as good as Harvard or Princeton or Yale. On top of that, colleges cannot just up and decide one year to increase the number of applicants they admit. Decisions like that have a profound affect on campus life, student housing, employment at the college (if you have more students, you may need more professors and other employees), the number and different types of classes which will be offered (again, you have more students, you're going to need more classes to accomodate those students), financial aid (more students means more students who will need money which will lead to individual students receiving less financial aid)...the list can go on and on. Decisions of that magnitude require years of careful planning.</p>