The ever more Competitive Higher Education Landscape

The New York Times
April 4, 2007
A Great Year for Ivy League Schools, but Not So Good for Applicants to Them
By SAM DILLON

Harvard turned down 1,100 student applicants with perfect 800 scores on the SAT math exam. Yale rejected several applicants with perfect 2400 scores on the three-part SAT, and Princeton turned away thousands of high school applicants with 4.0 grade point averages. Needless to say, high school valedictorians were a dime a dozen.