Top 52 Colleges & Universities Ranked By Selectivity (Wallethub.com)
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Methodology used admissions rate, 25th% SAT/ACT scores, 75th% SAT/ACT scores, and % of freshmen in top 10% of class.
1) MIT 2) CalTech 3) Harvard 4) U Chicago 5) Stanford 6) Columbia 7) Yale 8) JHU 9) Northwestern 10) Duke 11) Brown 12) Princeton 13) Dartmouth 14) Vanderbilt 15) U Penn 16) Pomona College 17) Rice 18) Swarthmore College 19) Cornell 20) Amherst College 21) Harvey Mudd 22) Carnegie Mellon U. 23) WashUStL 24) Barnard College 25) NYU 26) Colby College 27) Tufts 28) Haverford College 29) N'eastern 30) Notre Dame 31) Georgetown 32) UCLA 33) Hamilton College 34) USC 35) Middlebury College 36) UCal-Berkeley 37) Emory 38) Wellesley College 39) Boston College 40) Colgate University 41) Claremont McKenna College 42) U Virginia 43) Grinnell College 44) Wash & Lee University 45) Georgia Tech 46) Wesleyan University 47) Vassar College 48) Boston University 49) U Michigan 50) Carleton College 51) RISD 52) Tulane |
Anonymous
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(OP here)
Odd that Bowdoin College was apparently overlooked. |
Anonymous
Williams too |
Anonymous
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But so many have high TO admits?
UChicago Vanderbilt Pomona Amherst What “methodology” are they using in lieu for those kids? |
Anonymous
| The methodology was stated in the first post in this thread. Heaviest weight given to "admissions rate", then equal rate given to the other 3 categories (25th% SAT/ACT, 75th% SAT/ACT, and % of freshmen in top 10% of class). |
Anonymous
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I do not know. Probably just used the data published by each school. This is not a definitive list; it is a fun list used to compare schools based on the available data. |
Anonymous
| Where’s Wash U? |
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23 |
Anonymous
Accuracy tho? If 50% don’t submit? |
Anonymous
| No Wake…interesting. I do like this methodology though. |
Anonymous
For the past two years, with the exception of MIT almost none of these schools have been test mandatory. Kind of a pointless data point at this moment in time. Maybe in two or three years when everyone - excepting maybe Pomona and the UCs - gets back to testing required. |
Anonymous
| It’s free to apply to Colby! And they send so much spam emails to entice kids to hit the easy apply free button to add Colby |
Anonymous
| WalletHub... an entire business model built on clickbait |
Anonymous
Nice representation of selective schools and mix of national universities and SLACs. RISD is a great school for the art inclined. |