Most Selective Schools- 2024 by College Raptor
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Anonymous
UVA clocking in at 78. Just behind UNC. |
Anonymous
I don’t think there’s any argument about top 8-10 schools. But after that, it gets messier and ED or EDs hugely impact yield. |
Anonymous
Go Northeastern! Let the haters hate. |
Anonymous
. Interesting…is Emory a school in decline? |
Anonymous
| What is it based on? |
Anonymous
| That actually is a pretty cool site. |
Anonymous
Stanbridge is a college dedicated to Nursing, PT and Occupational Therapy. They have 5 locations in Southern CA. It is Open Enrollment. Nothing against that and seems like a great choice for those careers. However, it is bizarre it is on this list. |
Anonymous
| Institutions like Minerva, Curtis, Julliard, etc should have giant asterixis. They aren't really like the others. With a place like Minerva you may as well be comparing Stanford against tutelage under a tree with Socrates. |
Anonymous
It’s probably paid for by those two organizations or universities |
Anonymous
| In a way, it's convenient that they list pretty much any school in existence. No liberal arts designations, military academies, public schools, private schools, niche schools. Just good, objective information for the consumer to do what they want with it |
Anonymous
Except when the #13 most selective school is actually an Open Enrollment school. Other than that...it must be "good" information. |
Anonymous
| Just another example where selectivity is overrated. |
Anonymous
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The problem with this methodology is that many Universities use waitlists to manipulate their acceptance rate and drive up their yield rate. Uchicago is notorious for this. Pomona accepted 62 from their waitlist out of 408 total enrolled, Cornell accepted 362 from their waitlist out 3500 enrolled. Such high numbers are a very likely indicator of manipulating waitlists for managing yield which makes using an acceptance metric in the formula troublesome. An alternative is to just use #enrolled divided by #applied. (This works well in comparing between schools that attract a similar academic profile of students).
---from reddit--- Number of applicants chasing each seat at T35 Universities and T4 LACs Just like Airlines have to fill bums on seats, so too do Universities. No matter what games they play in managing yield (by manipulating number of admits to number waitlisted for example), the hard number is #applicants and #enrolled for the fixed number of seats they have. So how many applicants chasing each seat at the top 35 universities and Top4 LACs in USNWR? (Data is from CDS, and is #Applicants divide by #Enrolled, and ranked from most number of applicants per seat to least). This is a glimpse of what applicants are chasing. Caltech 74 Columbia 41 Harvard 37 Swarthmore 34 Stanford 32 Yale 32 Brown 30 MIT 30 Pomona 30 Duke 28 Vanderbilt 28 JHU 27 Rice 26 Amherst 26 Princeton 25 Northwestern 25 Dartmouth 24 Emory 23 Penn 23 UCLA 22 Williams 21 UCIrvine 21 USC 20 UCSanDiego 20 CarnegieM ellon 20 Cornell 19 UCBerkeley 19 UChicago 18 WashUinSL 18 Georgetown 17 NYU 16 UCDavis 14 Wellesley 14 GeorgiaTech 14 Notre Dame 14 UNCarolina 13 UVA 13 UMichigan 12 UofFlorida 10 UTAustin 7 Obviously this is University-wide data and does not reflect demand for specific majors like CS for example. CDS data is latest published by the University (most are 2023-24, some are 2022-23 and the rare one is 2021-22) |
Anonymous
I've always kind of felt that way about STEM-focused schools like Cal Tech and military academies. |
Anonymous
For an aspiring actor I imagine that getting into Julliard is the equivalent of an aspiring cosmologist getting into caltech. |