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Top schools are still hard to get into. The classes of 2031 at Harvard and Columbia will get between 50,000 and 60,000 applicants this fall, and the acceptance rate for those universities is historically around 5%.
To make matters worse for the world’s 15 and 16-year-olds, the admissions landscape continues to change. Universities are revising standardized testing requirements, evaluating how applicants use artificial intelligence and looking for evidence of intellectual curiosity, initiative and personal development beyond the classroom.
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