Amicus briefs have been filed in the second round of the Fisher v. UT case. The one filed by Brown, U of Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Univ. of Penn, Princeton, Stanford, Venderbilt and Yale has an interesting footnote regarding selectivity of these schools (referred to as Amicus below.)
"Amici's focus on factors beyond objective, numerical qualifications reflects both their educational philosophies and the strength of their applicant pools.
For example, in the most recent admissions year for the class of 2019, one Amicus received over 27,000 applications. More than 11,000 of these applicants had a 4.0 grade point average and nearly 12,500 had scores of 2,100 or higher on the three sections of the SAT. Its application pool included students from more than 9,500 high schools and more than 150 countries around the world.
A second Amicus received applications from over 7,000 individuals who were the valedictorians of their graduating classes or had GPAs over 4.0; only seven percent of that group were admitted. That same institution also admitted only ten percent of the approximately 8,000 applicants who scored in the top one percent nationally on the SAT.
Another Amicus recently admitted only four percent of applicants in the top ten percent of their high school class where class rank was reported, and declined to admit more than 81 percent of applicants with perfect SAT scores.
A fourth Amicus could have filled more than half of its class of admitted students with applicants who had perfect SAT scores. It admitted only nineteen percent of these applicants, comprising only ten percent of the admitted class."
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