Do 80 Percent of Top Students Really Get Into an Elite College?

That might be the case for an 18-year-old who has eyes only for Yale. But as the New America Foundation’s Kevin Carey argued in the New York Times this weekend, it’s much easier to get into a great college than the panicked stories about collapsing acceptance rates would suggest. How easy? According to Carey, “80 percent of top students were accepted to at least one elite school”