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[quote=Anonymous]There are only 2,000 admissions letters for about 50,000 applicants. When you exclude, legacies (10% of admits), athletes (15%), internationals (10-12%), FGLI (15-20%) then there are probably only 1200 seats up for grabs. When it's that competitive, they are going to take the most compelling applications. At this level, they can be ultra-picky. If your kid's goal is a T10, then they should pick a niche very, very early and try to be the best in the country at it. It's simply much easier to be the best linguistics or Russian language applicant than the best CS, pre-med, or Econ applicant. Remember that colleges want to fill up the humanities and there are very few applicants looking to study that. [/quote]
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