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[quote=Anonymous]My numbers are rough, but they illustrate the point. There are 37,000 public and private HSs in the USA, today including 26,000 public and 11,000 private. The number of public HSs has gone up from about 22,000 in 1980 but the sizes of freshman classes most likely have as well. Harvard's freshman class is 2100 students and Amherst's is 470. If the average freshman class size is 1500 over the top 25 schools, there are roughly the same number of valedictorians as there are spots. Since a significant fraction of those spots are taken up by athletes and international students, being valedictorian HAS NEVER really been enough to ensure a spot at a top college. Similarly, there are about 16,000 national merit semifinalists and 34,000 commended students competing for the lets say 32,000 non-athlete spots at top 25 schools. That leaves about 18,000 high scoring students out.[/quote]
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