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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Probably not for the tippy top pier - HYSP and so on but I would think so starting around schools ranked 20th and below.[/b]

Especially because of the cost. Not many people can afford to pay 100k without blinking.

We make around 800k and even I question whether it's worth it. We'll pay though.[/quote]

Even now, if you get below the "top 30-40" admissions just isnt that hard. This Pew study is interesting. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/09/a-majority-of-u-s-colleges-admit-most-students-who-apply/

"...Of the 1,364 four-year colleges and universities we looked at, 17 admitted fewer than 10% of applicants in 2017, the most recent year for which comprehensive data are available. That group includes such prestigious names as Stanford (4.7%), Harvard (5.2%), Yale (6.9%) and Northwestern (9.2%). Another 29 schools admitted between 10% and 20% of applicants, including Georgetown (15.7%), the University of Southern California (16%), UCLA (16.1%) and the University of California, Berkeley (17.1%).

[b]The extremely competitive schools amounted to 3.4% of all the colleges and universities in this analysis, and they accounted for just 4.1% of total student enrollment. [/b]By contrast, more than half of the schools in our sample (53.3%) admitted two-thirds or more of their applicants in 2017 ..."

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Percentage admitted doesn't tell you as much as you think about difficulty of admissions.  Schools can admit 30% of applicants and still have average scores that are in the top 5% of standardized test scores and students from the top 10% of their high schools.  There's a lot of self-selection in who applies and readily available info in the common data set/Naviance about who will get in.  So two schools can have the same percent accepted but accept a widely different caliber of student. [/quote]

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