MN-Dad-2016
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Let's go to the source.According to CollegeData, Harvard Freshman Admissions Requirements
See https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics
Applicants 39,506
Admitted 2,038 or 5%.
And http://admission.stanford.edu/basics/selection/profile.html
Applicants 43,997
Admitted 2114 or 4.8%
78% of the applicants are in the top 10%. For those who are admitted to Stanford, 95% were in the top 10% of their class. Other sites will show the percentiles. Both Stanford and Harvard have much higher stats than USAFA.
About 50% of USAFA applicants that finish (and medically qualify) are offered a slot. That's the reality. As I said earlier, we are comparing apples to guavas (different skill sets). See https://www.thoughtco.com/harvard-gpa-sat-and-act-data-786496 which shows a scatter plot of acceptance and rejections. Statistically, a whole lot of extremely smart students apply to Stanford and Harvard and the competition is brutal.
I'm not taking anything away from USAFA. In fact, our son believes he got a world class education; arguably (and he would) it was a much better education than any other college he would have attended. He loved the place and his experience. But I am not going to deny the obvious. On average, a USAFA student versus an average Stanford student have a different bag of tricks. Nothing more, nothing less.
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