Switch College Admissions to a Single Lottery � The Quick and the Ed

Switch College Admissions to a Single Lottery � The Quick and the Ed

Switch College Admissions to a Single Lottery

by Chad Aldeman

About one out of every sixty students who will begin college next fall applied to Harvard (h/t). Stop and think for a second how crazy that is.
Here are the acceptance rates at various elite schools around the country:
Harvard: 6.9 percent
Stanford: 7.2 percent
Yale: 7.5 percent
Princeton: 8.2 percent