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[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 right, you don't understand. It's a lot lower than 5% for these elite schools, closer to 3%, and once you take into account pulling in legacies, athletes, first generation, and underrepresented minorities, the chances go down to nearly non-existent.

Keep telling yourself it's simply "difficult."[/quote]

At St. Ann's 48% will go to an Ivy, at Colligiate in Manhattan, 50+% will go to an Ivy.
I'll keep telling myself it's [sic] simply "difficult," while you keep making excuses for mediocrity.[/quote]

That is part of the equation. If you don't go to St. Ann's or Collegiate (etc. etc.), your odds are significantly lower because those spots, in addition to those for the athletes, legacies, etc., are taken before you even dream of applying. it never was about merit alone. At my kid's school, where top school admissions counselors come to visit every year, one of the Ivy's has said they will only 'see' the NMSF students who also have XYZ-check-the-box, and among those, they rarely take one. It doesn't matter how spectacular the other kids are if they were, for example, sick the day of the SAT/NMSQT and couldn't take it.[/quote]

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