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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To use Harvard as an example, they accept about 2000 students per year out of roughly 48,000 applications. Until recently, they would take roughly 1000 during the SCEA round and 1000 during the RD round. However, in recent years, they have stopped sharing the breakdown between SCEA and RD acceptances. It's fair to assume that the odds of acceptance for an unhooked applicant to Harvard in Regular Decision are astronomically low.

I suspect the numbers are similar for Princeton and Yale. And Dartmouth is very tiny. Unhooked students basically have no chance at these schools in RD.

Cornell seems like the only ivy that is somewhat accessible for smart unhooked students in RD, followed by Columbia. But in reality, smart and accomplished unhooked students are generally not going to ivy schools these days. [/quote]

And Harvard has its own set of feeder schools that send a lot more students than the average HS.  THese are elite privates full of rich/legacy/connected parents and selective magnet schools.  The average HS student has no shot.
https://www.thecrimson.com/widget/2024/11/15/top-feeders-data/[/quote]

There are about six public high schools in the Cambridge / Boston area on that list [/quote]

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