Just as background
Harvard has a 3.4% acceptance rate. The average SAT for admitted students is 1520-1540. An applicant with a 1600 SAT and 4.0 GPA only has a 10% probability of getting accepted.
So anyone who gets admitted to Harvard or any top school has basically won the lottery no matter how they got in.
Too bad most of those who couldn't get in with smarts usually flunk out.
Ivy League is easy to get good grades except for Dartmouth, Cornell and Princeton. They don’t inflate grades like Harvard , Brown, Yale, Columbia and Upenn. . Athletes have no trouble getting good grades. Also they don’t take only the smartest kids anymore. They take about 25 to 40 percent with much lower grades and SAT scores. They make up for it with the rest needing almost perfect scores. Since they give out Pell Grants all admissions stats are made public and easy to find.
