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[quote=Anonymous]This is how admissions really works at a highly selective school that is need-blind. First, athletes who committed as Sophomores / Juniors are taken. For those saying "not at Ivies", Ivy schools are D1. 15% of Harvard's undergrads are athletes. So 210 slots are now taken. Those coaches recruit! Next, ED gets a big bump. This is a little less than half the admits, but athletes have to be subtracted... so that's, say, another 700 admits. They now have a 900 person class. There are only 500 slots to go, now. Of those EDs, you're going to see almost all of the large-donor legacies apply in that tranche, so assume they're out of the way. Those are going to be kids of parents who have (1) consistently given >$2500 per year, and kids who are 1500+ SAT and 4.1+ GPA. There are also going to be a lot minority filling quotas in there for Af-Am  and Hispanic. Those kids are going to need 1420+ / 3.9+ GPA. What's missing at this point? The super high achieving Asian kids, some of whom may have gotten in early... but not many. Now you have 40K kids competing for 1000 slots (yielding another 500). This is where the unfairness really hits; it's basically impossible to get in now unless you're so special it hurts to look at you. So yes--college admissions is absurd. But knowing all this--in all honesty--why would you want to send your kid to a place that is this screwed up?[/quote]

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