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Found this following article on NY Times. Interesting read.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/education/19gifted.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=education

I am from west coast so I don't really know what the big deal is to get into Hunter school. It's just an elementary school, I thought. Apparently it is a big deal.

"Hunter had 1,832 4-year-olds apply last year for 50 kindergarten seats;" from the article.

That is less than 3% admission rate!

To put into perspective, Harvard's admission rate is about 8% and Juilliard is somewhere in 7% range.

Thanks for posting this. The numbers are incredible and this made me pretty sad:
�Because of the limited resources of Hunter, they can�t even begin to see all the kids who need this type of education,� Ms. Selendy said.