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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yale admits 1600 students from this year. About 50% go to athletes, international (they want 15% or so), legacies, development cases, arts/drama/musicians/etc.

You are left with 800 seats for non-hooked US students.

There are 30,000 high schools in USA including 18000 public that are ranked by US news and 5000 private.

Take out 2/3 of the high schools as not competitive.

You are still left with 10,000 HS. If you say on average about 5 students are going to have the rigor and grades and scores, that is 50,000 students who think they have a shot at HYPSM.

Say 50% of these apply to Yale. That is 25,000 students who have the GPA, rigor and very high test scores.

You can make whatever adjustments you think are reasonable, but you end up with 10+ students for every available spot.

AO's are not lying when they say they can fill out the class 5x times with qualified students.[/quote]

So 2/3 of students are unqualified according to you simply because of their zoned high school. Wowsers. This is tragic, no?[/quote]

There was nothing tragic about not getting into Yale University.   They have limited spots and they actually did increase the class size about a decade ago.    There are also thousands of other institutions of higher learning and its tragic that someone would complain going  to another one of them instead of yale.[/quote]

There are very real reasons the selective schools don't accept kids from high schools they don't have experience with/knowledge of- they can't assess.  Look at the great results when they do, Yale admitted a con artist from "North Dakota". . .  [/quote]

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