It may just be me, but I found myself getting increasingly annoyed as I read my colleague Jenna Johnson's blogpost detailing the latest admissions statistics for some of the nation's most elite schools.
For example, Harvard University's 7 percent overall rate of admissions last year was apparently not low enough. This year, it dropped to 6.9 percent. Harvard received more than 30,000 applications this year, a 5 percent increase from last year, and accepted 2,110 students.
"That's 28,000 broken hearts," one admissions staff member said as several passed trays stuffed with rejections into a car to be mailed, according to the student newspaper the Harvard Crimson.
Duke University was down to 14.8 percent from 18 percent last year, after receiving 26,770 applications, up 11 percent from last year.
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