What the elite expect and receive from an Ivy League education

Re:What the elite expect and receive from an Ivy League educ... by maksimum on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @05:21PM (#15288931)

Oxbridge have an average acceptance rate of 18% for undergrads. Harvard is 6%. Assuming similar applicant pools, many who got rejected by Harvard would have been accepted at Oxbridge.

Obviously that's only one measure of prestige.

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Re:What the elite expect and receive from an Ivy League educ... by drharby on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @09:36PM (#15290094)

That's a major assumption. Another major assumption overlooked is that those capable of admission don't want to attend these schools.

Low hanging fruit would be diehard applicants to MIT, Caltech, or the Service Academies

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Re:What the elite expect and receive from an Ivy League educ... by alva on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @06:07PM (#15289239)

Assuming the majority of applications come from natives UK 65 million US 323 million

Of course however these universities are very popular internationally.

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