I did a search on this topic before I started another one since we kind of beat this to death but I just read the NY Times articles
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/u...-acceptance-rates-hit-new-lows.html?_r=0

And Stanford's acceptance rates dropped to 5%, Harvard, Yale 6%. And they just keep dropping. It makes you wonder what the student body is made of when you get to these levels. Who are these kids?