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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The acceptance rates for Ivy League universities are so low that it is irrational to try to figure out how to be accepted by one. I’m not saying this to be mean; it’s a mathematical fact.

However, two things:

1. There’s nothing special about the Ivy League. It’s a football league at the end of the day. There are dozens of schools just as good as the Ivy League.

2. I know plenty of people who went to Ivy League schools. Some of them are successful and many aren’t. It’s about the same as many other great schools. Your kids will succeed or not based on many other factors than whether they go to an Ivy League school.[/quote]

[b]I definitely agree, which is why I find it exceptional that there are families which send multiple siblings to the Ivy league, despite the low odds.[/b]

And again, i am not hung up on Ivy league per se, there are many high caliber schools that I will be happy for my kids to attend and feel they will succeed -- but the ability to get accepted to an Ivy likely means they will get accepted wherever they really want to go.[/quote]

It really isn't that shocking, and I say that as someone whose (almost) entire family is Ivy League educated, and we (almost) all married people of similar educational background.

We were not surprised when our DD tested at 99.5 percentile for intelligence.  I know they've made those tests harder since we were kids, but both DH and I consistently tested in the 99.9% in intelligence, as did our siblings, their spouses (most of them), our parents....  It was just a given.

Also, my spouse and I met in school.  I now realize how hard it would have been to find someone of similar intelligence in the real world!

Anyway, raw intelligence alone would not get you into a top school (of course!) and there are plenty of students at those schools who got there exclusively through hard work, or through their family status, or some other catch.  But the vast majority are simply significantly more intelligence than the average person.[/quote]

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