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[quote=Anonymous]These days, schools like Brown and Columbia also take only 7-10%, in fact one recent article I saw suggested Columbia is harder to get into than Princeton. Schools like Penn, Cornell and Swarthmore take 10-16% percent. http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/30/pf/college/acceptance_rates_ivy_league/index.htm With odds like these, even kids with great grades and SATs will find that schools like Columbia are a "reach", if only because there are so many equally qualified kids applying. So you need to choose your reach schools carefully, and if you're only applying to 3 reach (and 3 target and 3 safety, or whatever), then I can totally see applying to Brown and Swarthmore as reaches but not HYP, if you think Brown is a better fit.[/quote]
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