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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think most people can’t really comprehend what a 5 to 10 percent admission rate looks like, but that’s the range at most top schools, even schools outside the T20 which have comparatively generous ED acceptance rates.[/quote]I agree. I think low acceptance rates should be expressed as ratios, not percentages, because it paints a clearer picture.
20% is 1 in 5
10% is 1 in 10
5% is 1 in 20
2% is 1 in 50[/quote]

The acceptance rate really needs to be looked at separately for hooked and unhooked applicants, because the results are totally different. At a school with a 3.5% overall acceptance rate, hooked applicants might see something closer to a 15–25% admit rate, while unhooked applicants could be down around 0.1%.

Everyone knows being a hooked applicant effectively works like a form of affirmative action in admissions.[/quote]

I generally agree, this is why parent's of "high stats" kids lose their minds on this forum.  I wouldn't describe it as affirmative action, to my mind the issue is that some number of the spots are reserved for the athletes, legacies, donors, etc.  Our unhooked kids are vying for a much smaller unknown number of seats against a much larger pool of applicants who are all very similar to them.   [/quote]

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