Friday, April 06, 2007
A Great Year for Ivy League Schools, but Not So Good for Applicants to Them
New York Times: "Harvard turned down 1,100 student applicants with perfect 800 scores on the SAT math exam. Yale rejected several applicants with perfect 2400 scores on the three-part SAT, and Princeton turned away thousands of high school applicants with 4.0 grade point averages. Needless to say, high school valedictorians were a dime a dozen."
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Part of the problem is that the applicants apply at least more than ten schools. It was until last year that the acceptance rate of NYU was 33% but it's so much lower than that this year. Collegeboard made a mistake this year by having the exactly same exam from last year with the one in January this year, and the colleges became very relunctant about people receiving the perfect score on SAT.
Holy cow! That's almost depressing... Granted, I'm sure some of those "perfect" kids lacked anything in their lives other then school. All I can say is, I'm glad I'm in college already! Although, being a theatre design major is also more on my side then other possible majors. o_O
If I recall, last year I only applied to 4 universities - regardless of how easy it is to apply you still have to pay the extra money... People are too undecided when applying now... 10 schools! Holy cow that's A LOT. I mean really, with a little thought you could easily knock it down to 5.
Damn! thats terribly upsetting...what more can hopefuls do? its almost impossible it would seem, i think its probably having something do with the rising of the other 2nd tier schools...the ivy can afford to be competitive again because the competition is stiff..we're top 25....slowly rising...its completely understandable that things should go in this direction...good luck hopefuls
This article seems to skip over are two major parts of the college acceptance rates these days. One, International students: they keep talking about the rise of the kids of the "Baby Boomer" generation, but you have to realize the increase in the number of students coming from all over to get an education from an American college. Two, quotas: though it doesn't affect the rise in application numbers, it does have everything to do with the people not accepted that had "perfect scores," because a school is going to try and diversify race, culture, and class, which means some people have it a little easier than others...if they have the high scores that is.
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