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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harvard University admitted about 1650 undergraduate freshmen in 1965.  Last year it admitted about 2024 undergraduate freshmen.  Assuming (a simplistic assumption, I admit) a linear increase, the average undergraduate freshmen enrollment is 1834.  So in the last 54 years, there were a total of 54 x 1834 = 99036 undergraduate freshmen enrollment.

So, considering this total number of about 99000 undergraduate freshmen enrollment, I get the feeling that admission to Harvard College freshman class is not that big of a deal.  I used to think It was such a huge deal before I did this back of the envelop calculation.  I just wanted to share.  I totally get where the oP is coming from.  OP, you aren't alone.  I feel the same way you do.  But in my case, the feeling is about getting into Harvard College. [/quote]

When I went to Harvard for college many years ago, my (inward) reaction to “wow, you go to Harvard!” quickly became “Yeah, me and 20K other people.”  Lots of whom weren’t any smarter than the kids who were my friends in HS.[/quote]

There were 20k people attending Harvard College?[/quote]

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