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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My neighbor's kid is doing Liberty University online and the mom has told me more than once that Liberty "has a 20% acceptance rate". I believe this is technically correct, at least for on-campus, but it has nothing to do with academic selectiveness. [/quote]

Liberty is very popular among kids at our church, and they all tout it's low acceptance rate, but I don't know anyone who has ever been rejected. [/quote]

I just looked up the common data set for Liberty on college data. It lists a 28% acceptance rate, but under entrance difficulty, it says this...

Minimally Difficult: Most freshmen were not in the top 50% of their high school class and scored somewhat below 1010 on the SAT I or below 19 on the ACT; up to 95% of all applicants accepted.

How do they reconcile this with the 28% acceptance rate listed? [/quote]

Easy. They get tons of unqualified applicants. That's the point of the thread. Liberty apparently has a lower acceptance rate than many prestigious and selective private schools -- but 50% of the class scored a 1010 on their SAT. That's why you can't take "acceptance rate" at face value. It means little by itself.[/quote]

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