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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand that College forum.  Parents act like the Ivy acceptance rate is 0.00001% and that DC needs a Nobel Prize to be competitive.  In fact, the Harvard acceptance rate is 5% (1 in 20 is getting in).  Difficult, but hardly impossible.[/quote]

You’re a newbie with young kids.  It is really hard to get into certain colleges today.  I attended a T20 school and was accepted to a few others as well.  No way would that happen to me today with the stats I had. [/quote]

It's so hard to get in that 1 out of 20 applicants are doing it.  (It's only hard for mediocre students.)[/quote]

Mediocre students don’t apply to Harvard - I know, I’m the parent of one. It’s essentially 5% of the tippy top, 4.0 students get in. That can be pretty jarring to a family who thinks that a 4.0 high stats kid has a good shot at Harvard. They still don’t, because 5% is still a long shot.[/quote]

Yup. 5% of the super high GPA, great SAT score, amazing extracurriculars, started a non-profit, etc kids. Take those kids, then pick 1 in 20. It’s essentially like a lottery at that point (not to mention the cost). Good news is that people can have great, successful lives without attending an Ivy. [/quote]

Oh, and wait until they learn about hooks. Harvard takes about 1600 kids. They strive for a 50-50 gender balance, so that's 800 seats gone right there. Add recruited athletes and that's another 150 or so. Z list wealth and celebrities. Another 30-40. Legacy remains a boost for another 100 or so. Some basic racial balance issues. Thrown in the elite internationals - that is 25 percent of the class this year. So that's 400 seats gone right there. Add the necessity of domestic geographical diversity. One from each state at least. So that's another 49 seats minimum that are not going to you. Mix in some children of faculty.

[b]Basically, for a school like Harvard, there are maybe 100 seats available for your unhooked super-bright and accomplished child[/b] from the burbs. And just a FYI, Harvard received 54,000 applications this year.

And it's not much better at the rest of the top 20 universities.

Good luck[/quote]

not your child. your girl/boy. you already took out half of the class.

not saying it's doable or anything, but since this, I think, is a useful perspective to understand the level of competition, let's do it correctly. if you take out 800 seats from the getgo you don't subtract all internationals and all athletes (assuming this is what you did). also, you don't subtract 49 states. each states doesn't have to have a "representative" of both genders.[/quote]

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