Most Selective Schools- 2024 by College Raptor

[Anonymous]

Julliard's acceptance rate is in the single digits. It is also a really small school compared to most on the list.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I've always kind of felt that way about STEM-focused schools like Cal Tech and military academies.

Nah. Caltech requires students to take distribution courses outside the sciences, whereas my sibling went to Juilliard and really only learned music.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, all Ivies on top. Not a surprise.

That's incorrect. Of the top 10 on that website, only half are Ivies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

I've always kind of felt that way about STEM-focused schools like Cal Tech and military academies.

Nah. Caltech requires students to take distribution courses outside the sciences, whereas my sibling went to Juilliard and really only learned music.

I am going to guess that your sibling was immensely talented in music, like top .1% talented. Schools like Julliard are just as impessive to me as a school like Cal Tech. One wants to be a musician, the other an astrophysist. Both are at tippy top of their talent levels.

[Anonymous]

Eastern International College is not a selective college. Its presence on the list is a sign of a quality control problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That actually is a pretty cool site.

Agree

[Anonymous]

Do sites like this get their data from public records, or do they get them from the university directly? I know that UChicago doesn't give out a lot of information, so I wonder where they get it from?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do sites like this get their data from public records, or do they get them from the university directly? I know that UChicago doesn't give out a lot of information, so I wonder where they get it from?

The data seems somewhat outdated too. It's from 2021-2022

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do sites like this get their data from public records, or do they get them from the university directly? I know that UChicago doesn't give out a lot of information, so I wonder where they get it from?

The data seems somewhat outdated too. It's from 2021-2022

Were you looking for 2025 data?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do sites like this get their data from public records, or do they get them from the university directly? I know that UChicago doesn't give out a lot of information, so I wonder where they get it from?

The data seems somewhat outdated too. It's from 2021-2022

Were you looking for 2025 data?

At some point the Covid data will work its way out of the system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eastern International College is not a selective college. Its presence on the list is a sign of a quality control problem.

The list is meaningless, because it doesn't account for all the free apps--Colby, Northeastern--to increase the number and lower acceptance rates.

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Anonymous wrote:The list is obviously bunk since it doesn't have UVA

UVA clocking in at 78. Just behind UNC.

UVA admits more OOS than other top publics, which decreases their yield rate. Basically, if you’re instate and have a great public school option, kids frequently take it. So, schools like Berkeley, UCLA, UT-Austin, and UNC are biased upward by the small share of seats for OOS. UVA and Michigan get dinged for offering more seats to OOS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The list is obviously bunk since it doesn't have UVA

UVA clocking in at 78. Just behind UNC.

UVA admits more OOS than other top publics, which decreases their yield rate. Basically, if you’re instate and have a great public school option, kids frequently take it. So, schools like Berkeley, UCLA, UT-Austin, and UNC are biased upward by the small share of seats for OOS. UVA and Michigan get dinged for offering more seats to OOS.

Yes! UVA's yield is over 50% for in-state!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

I've always kind of felt that way about STEM-focused schools like Cal Tech and military academies.

Nah. Caltech requires students to take distribution courses outside the sciences, whereas my sibling went to Juilliard and really only learned music.

I am going to guess that your sibling was immensely talented in music, like top .1% talented. Schools like Julliard are just as impessive to me as a school like Cal Tech. One wants to be a musician, the other an astrophysist. Both are at tippy top of their talent levels.

Yep. They're first chair of their instrument at a major orchestra. I'm pretty proud of them!