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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"BWAHAHAHA! YOu do know all those little red dots are "denieds"? "

Which has what to do about the green and blue dots?[/quote]

I count maybe 10-15 "outlier" green and blue dots.  You do know that harvard received 35,000 applications this year and only 2,100 acceptances were mailed out  6.2% of applications, and the 865 come from EA.[/quote]

Think about it: if you were Harvard and you got 35K applicants, wouldn't you choose the top ones? If you were sitting there looking at all of those, wouldn't the first thing you would do is cut them down to a manageable size of maybe 6000? rejecting 29,000 on the first cut? What do you think top 10 schools are doing?[/quote][/quote]

They probably could fill the class with applicants with 3.9+ GPA and 2300+ SAT, but there plainly aren't doing that. Who are they making exceptions for? HOOKS - mainly UREM, some athletes, some legacy, some handicapped and other exceptional cases.[/quote]

I'm gonna guess legacies and certain types of athletes. Harvard has a "Z List" where they put certain legacies who aren't quite up to snuff, for entry the following year. Pretty sure that Harvard has a gazillion URMS with near-perfect stats, so getting URMs isn't a question of lowering standards. Getting legacies sometimes is.  [/quote]

There are probably only 250 AA kids each year with sat scores above 1500.  Hardly a gazillion.[/quote]

And there's one jacka$$ on this thread, and it's you![/quote]

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