"" "By using strategy and innovation students can gain admission to competitive colleges and universities where they will achieve their full intellectual and human potential,"" as said at http://www.ivysuccess.com/. Every year, multiple tens of thousands of highly qualified and not-so-qualified applicants knock at the admission doors of these eight great schools. However, you must have something to offer the school, for example the Ivy League schools like to see inimitable, unique people, which helps diversify the school. .
High school counselors call these schools "lottery schools."" If a student gets into one of these institutions, it's partially a matter of chance. "The Ivy League schools are now selective with the phrase because it was appearing in news media so often that the university this year instituted a new policy restricting the use of its name- as said online at http://thepost.baker.ohiou.edu/archives/101298/502.html. The Ivy League schools have far more applicants than they need. One of the problems with higher education enrollment administration today is that students are becoming a national commodity without becoming knowledgeable to national levels of competition. Clearly, students are looking past their local and regional schools and focusing on national schools, but they and their parents are utterly nave about the admittance process. The result of this is that students immeasurably miscalculate their acceptability to these influential schools. The ugly truth is that these schools everyday reject very bright and capable students. Basically, everyone in North America is applying to the same ten or fifteen schools, creating a classic market difference of supply and demand.
I'm sure that you're aware of how competitive schools like these are. Never forget that you must be constantly aware of the sometimes-illogical nature of college admittance. By reading the discussion forums posted in College Confidential about the students who are rejected from their first-choice schools for no apparent reason, it makes you give up all hope of getting in.