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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No.  With the exception of Harvey Mudd, which edged out Stanford, none of the LACs make the top 10 in selectivity as measured by median test scores.

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1789717-ranking-by-selectivity-for-help-picking-reaches-matches-safeties-p1.html[/quote]

The top LACs aren't interested in bringing the highest test score students. Someone posted Amherst's link before in which they reject so many of the people with 750+ on the sections (nearly 75% of them). I have a friend at Vanderbilt, which has extraordinarily high median test scores, and they directly look for students with near perfect scores to build as strong a profile in that regard as possible.

In the link you posted, there isn't that big a difference from Pomona and Stanford; only 15 points among SAT and no difference between ACT. Stanford is skewed by its heavy STEM and engineering groups on its college, which means higher M scores than most LACs. Schools like Princeton, Yale, and Harvard are less diverse than the top LACs in terms of admitting students who're URMs or low-income students. Of course they'll test a bit higher. Pomona had the highest percent of black students in its class of any top university or LAC this year, nearly 30-40% more as a percent than HYP (https://www.jbhe.com/2017/01/black-first-year-students-at-the-nations-leading-liberal-arts-colleges-2016/ vs https://www.jbhe.com/2017/01/black-first-year-students-at-the-nations-leading-research-universities-2016/)

I don't have any anecdotal data, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were as difficult for a qualified white student to get into Amherst and Pomona as it is to get into Harvard and Stanford. The first two seem exceptionally keen on bringing as diverse a student body as possible. [/quote]

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