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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PARCHMENT IS NOT A RELIABLE SOURCE omg how many times do we have to say this[/quote]

Maybe you can take some time to investigate how those numbers came around?

Parchment is a commonly used platform (used by 8000+ schools) for high school students to send transcripts and build profiles to assess their chances. The latter is wacky- I won't disagree. But the actual numbers for the college-comparison tool come from students inputting their college decisions. Student X inputs that they were ultimately admitted to Harvard, Yale, MIT, and Stanford, and lists down Stanford as "matriculating". That counts as a win in the tool against S vs M, S vs Y, and S vs H. Build up a huge database (made possible by over 100,000 users) and of course you'll get something indicative.

Can anyone make an account on Parchment and put some fake profile up? Sure. But actual, backed data supports what Parchment has found. Stanford released a document about cross-admits along HYPS and found that the percent preferring Stanford was: 42% vs Harvard, 58% vs Yale, 75% vs Princeton, and 63% vs MIT. Parchment shows 44% vs Harvard, 53% vs Yale, 73% vs Princeton, and 67% vs MIT. Not so different, is it? [/quote]

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