Schools more difficult to get in than their rankings appear to indicate

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Anonymous wrote:As for the talk about Vanderbilt, it’s tough admit shouldn’t be a surprise. It’s a simple combination of great academics, great social scene, great city, and increasingly good sports. Basically, it’s has it all in a great environment. The recent slippage in the ratings is a shrug. Also, it hadn’t had the political craziness that many elite campuses in the NE have experienced.

Upthread, there was a comparison to Duke. While Duke has a great campus, academics, and basketball team, Durham is terrible and the campus is segregated from the city. Also, while old campus is very collegiate, but the rest of campus feels very corporate. Not a great vibe.

It’s astonishing that Vandy has gone from an acceptance rate of 70% 35 years ago to less than 5% now. Wow.

I don't get this. I finished in high school in 1989 in Pennsylvania and two friends went to Vandy. One went there because he didn't get into Duke and the other because she didn't get into Dartmouth. I think it was a great school back then too.

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I think in general Southern Publics are much harder to get into.

Our affluent public in PA pretty much only sends kids to public schools. Most kids are only going private if they are playing a sport.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are out of state, Georgia, has gotten very hard to get into. It's a great school, it's SEC, - super popular now. It's not quite there yet but it's almost in UNC and UVA territory in terms of how hard it is for an out of state applicant to get into.

It absolutely is not nearing either of those two schools in admissions difficulty. I know at least one 1300 who got in last year.

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Anonymous wrote:Depending on the major...Cal Poly SLO, San Diego State, San Jose State, UCs Irvine, Santa Barbara, and Davis can be tough.

Zip code and school can be even more difficult. Schools with a 40% acceptance can have an impossible acceptance rate within particular areas.

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Anonymous wrote:Tufts is one.
WF?
Tulane.

Tulane, Tufts, Chicago are all in the "ED or bust" category. Either much easier or much harder to get into than rankings indicate, depending how you apply.

Middlebury is another "ED or bust" school?
Our school seems sent kids there ED only. But I am not 100% sure, the RD accepted kids may have better option and did not matriculate there.

Yeah, Midd takes about 70% of class ED. Upped the ED percentage dramatically a couple years ago because of their ongoing budget (and related, over-enrollment) issues — the more of a class you admit ED, the more the class is full-pay, to the uninitiated.

you never stop

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Ga Tech is more holistic in its approach than people might think. It’s a tough admit for in-staters too, although being in-state helps.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are out of state, Georgia, has gotten very hard to get into. It's a great school, it's SEC, - super popular now. It's not quite there yet but it's almost in UNC and UVA territory in terms of how hard it is for an out of state applicant to get into.

It absolutely is not nearing either of those two schools in admissions difficulty. I know at least one 1300 who got in last year.

No Id agree about Georgia. It’s known for engineering so it’s attracting the California and west coast high states engineering and cs major kids. UVA is not.

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Usc, NYU, Northeastern

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Anonymous wrote:Reed is the obvious answer here.

+1

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Demand by the high stat applicants are the real ranking.

That's a combination of Acceptance Rate + Yield Rate + Student Quality + additionally Retention Rate & Graduation rate

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Anonymous wrote:If you are out of state, Georgia, has gotten very hard to get into. It's a great school, it's SEC, - super popular now. It's not quite there yet but it's almost in UNC and UVA territory in terms of how hard it is for an out of state applicant to get into.

It absolutely is not nearing either of those two schools in admissions difficulty. I know at least one 1300 who got in last year.

No Id agree about Georgia. It’s known for engineering so it’s attracting the California and west coast high states engineering and cs major kids. UVA is not.

No it's not! UGA has a very small engineering program that isn't ranked highly. Georgia Tech has the state's strong engineering school.

Do you people just post crap off the top of your head?

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Anonymous wrote:If you are out of state, Georgia, has gotten very hard to get into. It's a great school, it's SEC, - super popular now. It's not quite there yet but it's almost in UNC and UVA territory in terms of how hard it is for an out of state applicant to get into.

It absolutely is not nearing either of those two schools in admissions difficulty. I know at least one 1300 who got in last year.

No Id agree about Georgia. It’s known for engineering so it’s attracting the California and west coast high states engineering and cs major kids. UVA is not.

Georgia is not known for engineering. It's college of engineering is ranked 90 for undergrad and 111 for grad by US News.

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I think the “Georgia is known for its engineering” poster must have been thinking of GT, not UGA.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are out of state, Georgia, has gotten very hard to get into. It's a great school, it's SEC, - super popular now. It's not quite there yet but it's almost in UNC and UVA territory in terms of how hard it is for an out of state applicant to get into.

It absolutely is not nearing either of those two schools in admissions difficulty. I know at least one 1300 who got in last year.

No Id agree about Georgia. It’s known for engineering so it’s attracting the California and west coast high states engineering and cs major kids. UVA is not.

Georgia is not known for engineering. It's college of engineering is ranked 90 for undergrad and 111 for grad by US News.

I'm assuming poster misstated and meant Tech.

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Rank of 90 is good for such a new program. Gatech's Neuroscience program is ranked 305, and its been around for a while now.