High admissions rate, yet high stats Freshman profile?

[Anonymous]

Why is it that some schools have high acceptance rates (like 70% or higher), yet the incoming Freshman GPA is around a 4.0? And alternatively there are some schools that admit students with much lower stats yet have lower acceptance rates. This has never made any sense to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is it that some schools have high acceptance rates (like 70% or higher), yet the incoming Freshman GPA is around a 4.0? And alternatively there are some schools that admit students with much lower stats yet have lower acceptance rates. This has never made any sense to me.

People self select the schools to which they apply to match the GPAs. There are only so many 4.0 students. They apply to the top colleges but many do not get in- they also apply to the next level of college and get in. The second tier of college have to accept more kids to make sure enough show up in the fall- so they accept all the people who go to the top tier plus the ones that actually end up at their school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it that some schools have high acceptance rates (like 70% or higher), yet the incoming Freshman GPA is around a 4.0? And alternatively there are some schools that admit students with much lower stats yet have lower acceptance rates. This has never made any sense to me.

People self select the schools to which they apply to match the GPAs. There are only so many 4.0 students. They apply to the top colleges but many do not get in- they also apply to the next level of college and get in. The second tier of college have to accept more kids to make sure enough show up in the fall- so they accept all the people who go to the top tier plus the ones that actually end up at their school.

Also every school recalculates GPA its own way -- to account for differences in systems. They report the ranges after being converted to their scale.

Look at Naviance and see the GPAs of kids from your school, with comparable GPAs to yours, to see what is likely.