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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]California Institute of Technology (982)
Dartmouth (4458)
Rice (4494)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (4657)
Princeton (5604)
Johns Hopkins (6044)
Duke (6640)
Yale (6645)
Vanderbilt (7151)
Harvard (7240)
University of Chicago (7470)
Brown (7639)
Stanford (8049)
Northwestern (8659)
Columbia (8832)
University of Notre Dame (8971)
University of Pennsylvania (9760)
Cornell (15735)
University of California, Los Angeles (32423)
University of California, Berkeley (32831)[/quote]

This is TOTAL undergrads. Just freshman is around 32,000 spots not counting UCLA and UCB, 48,000 with them included. From sourced data above that lists the 99th test takers as 78,000(it used greater than 1500), there are not nearly enough spots even if these schools filled every spot with these kids! They do not, because 1/4 are TO/other hooked kids get in with less, so there are max 24,000 unhooked spots for the top 17 private schools, about half that for the T10. It is not at all surprising that the top 12 of these 17 as far as academics/eliteness (ie the "ivy/+")  are the ones that had median SAT scores of around 1500 PRE test optional 2019-20.  These are hugely competitive schools that are only realistic for kids with scores 1500+ if unhooked. If your kid is not scoring that, or at least very close(ie minimum 1480), and they are not hooked, these schools are not reasonable reaches and even if your kid got in they would not compete well. [/quote]

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