OverParenting

School
#Applicants
#Admits
Rate

Stanford
4644
750
16.1%

Harvard
4008
875
21.8%

MIT
3493
390
11.2%

Yale
3594
724
20.1%

Princeton
2276
597
26.2%

Next year, Harvard and Princeton no longer offer early admissions. The numbers of applicants to other schools will no doubt increase dramatically, thus the acceptance rate is likely to go way down.

On Friday, December 15, 2006, the entire Puget sound area went dark due to the record windstorm in 100 years. We lost power, land line, cell phone reception in the house, and of course, Internet connection. The day was also the critical day that we have been waiting for — a decision from [...]