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I broke this down last year after a great kid I know didn't get into HYP, but ended up at a "lesser" Ivy where they are thriving. Posted it once before, but will do it again.

These stats are based on Princeton's press release announcing its Class of 2020 admissions results.
https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S45/94/44G37/index.xml?section=topstories

1894 students admitted for the Class of 2020

50.6% are people of color, filling 958 spots

12% are international, filling 227 spots

17.5% are first generation, if you conservatively assume that just one-third of those kids are neither POC or international, you fill another 109 spots

11% are alumni kids, if you estimate two-thirds are not POC or international, that’s another 34 spots

The Yale Daily News reports that Princeton admits about 200 recruited athletes per year. If you assume that just 25% of those athletes aren’t in the categories above, that’s 50 more spots filled.

That’s conservatively 1,378 spots filled, [b]leaving just 516 spots in the class for white, non-legacy, non-athlete applicants whose parents went to college[/b].

Since Princeton admits women and men in equal numbers, [b]that means about 258 "non-hooked" boys and 258 girls got into Princeton last year[/b]. The number is probably even lower when you take out Development admits, faculty kids, and others. The only two local kids I'm acquainted with who have gotten into Princeton in the last 3 years were both recruited athletes.[/quote]

I posted this a couple of years ago. In the Harvard trial yesterday, the Dean of Admissions said that for the Class of 2016 (admitted in 2012), [b]794 white students were admitted, and that 314 were legacy or recruited athletes[/b]. That leaves 480 spots - if you split them 50/50, that's 240 un-hooked boys and 240 un-hooked girls in the entire USA. Though the number is actually even less than that, once you take out first generation kids. Pretty close to the same number for my back-of-the-envelope estimating for Princeton. [/quote]

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