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You can see from class profiles of leading schools that they admit at least 75% of their class from the 99th percentile.

• JoeAltmaier 11y ago
  Only reason I got into Stanford is, they make (made?) a point of offering admission to all the 99th percentile each year. I was one of them. However there're only a few hundred of these nationwide, right? Not enough to fill several leading schools.
  • epmatsw 11y ago
    3.3 million high school graduates this year, so wouldn't the 99th percentile be the top 33k of them? Seems like that would be more than enough to fill Stanford and the Ivys' classes.
    • JoeAltmaier 11y ago
      Ah. There were two rankings when I took the tests - math and language. Those ranking 99th in both were offered admission. That was a smaller group.
      • epmatsw 11y ago
        Interesting. They must have stopped that before 2009 haha.
        • JoeAltmaier 11y ago
          1983