UPenn had a 47% acceptance rate for the Class of '95, it's not that much of a flex to be a legacy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here are 1990 acceptance rates:

Stanford University: average SAT 1300, admission rate15%

Harvard University: average SAT 1360, admission rate 15%

Yale University: average SAT 1370, admission rate 15%

Princeton University: average SAT 1339, admission rate 16%

University of California Berkeley: average SAT 1181, admission rate 37%

Dartmouth College: average SAT 1310, admission rate 20%

Duke University: average SAT 1306, admission rate 21%

University of Chicago: average SAT 1291, admission rate 45%

University of Michigan: average SAT 1190, admission rate 52%

Brown University: average SAT 1320, admission rate 20%

Cornell University: average SAT 1375, admission rate 29%

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: average SAT 1370, admission rate 26%

Univ. of N. Caroline Chapel Hill: average SAT 1250, admission rate 33%

Rice University: average SAT 1335, admission rate 30%

University of Virginia: average SAT 1230, admission rate 34%

Johns Hopkins University: average SAT 1303, admission rate 53%

Northwestern University: average SAT 1240, admission rate 41%

Columbia University: average SAT 1295. admission rate 25%

University of Pennsylvania: average SAT 1300, admission rate 35%

Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: average SAT 1132, admission rate 70%

California Institute of Technology: average SAT 1440, admission rate 28%

College of William and Mary: average SAT 1206, admission rate 26%

University of Wisconsin Madison: average SAT 1079, admission rate 78%

Washington University: average SAT 1189, admission rate 62%

Cornell with a higher SAT than Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, etc.? Not even close.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All colleges in the 80s and 90s were extremely easy admits compared to now. Focusing on Penn is silly. They were all like this.

Stanford’s class of “89 had a 10% admittance rate. Not so easy in 1985.

No it didn't. In the 1980s, Stanford’s acceptance rate was in the range of 15% to 20%.

I beg to differ. Admissions Dean, Jean Fetter, wrote to us in her acceptance letter, that for the class of 1989, they received 17,000 applications and accepted 1,700 students.

You cannot possibly be this stupid and a
Stanford grad. A typical entering class at Stanford at that time was 1700. They accepted more than that to arrive at that number.

In all fairness, it's Stanford. Possible they accepted only 1800 kids, so pretty close.

No. Stanford did not have a 94 pct yield in 1989. No major university has that kind of yield. For the class of 2028, Stanford reported a yield of 82 pct and it’s far more selective now than in 1989 when the math challenged alum got her letter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Penn has become more selective in relation to colleges with which its student profile once compared. Decades ago, Penn was similar to Union College, for example, in this regard.

When considered by SAT profiles, Life Magazine placed colleges into these tiers in 1960:

Amherst
Carleton
Columbia
Harvard
Haverford
Princeton
Reed
Rice
Swarthmore
Williams
Yale

Brandeis
Brown
Chicago
Cornell
Dartmouth
Hamilton
Johns Hopkins
Lehigh
Oberlin
Rochester
Stanford

Antioch
Bowdoin
Duke
Kenyon
Michigan
Middlebury
Northwestern
Pennsylvania
Iowa
Tufts
Union
UC-Berkeley
Sewanee

Colgate
Denison
Grinnell
Knox
Lawrence
Muhlenberg
Occidental
UColorado

Beloit
NYU
Pittsburgh
Southern Methodist
Syracuse
Virginia
Vanderbilt

https://books.google.com/books/about/LIFE.html?id=ykQEAAAAMBAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false

[Anonymous]

This link should work properly for the Life article:

https://books.google.com/books?id=ykQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100&dq=life%2Bmagazine%2B1960%2Bcollege%2Badmission%2Btufts%2Bbowdoin&source=bl&ots=5BKi5WV8SQ&sig=GFl_LycVnJV8AGIXLX2P9kW97I0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sO1TT4uPK-jm0QG8ifC3DQ#v=onepage&q&f=false