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[quote=Anonymous]When considering Private colleges that have roughly similar tuition (affordability) I haven’t seen any research (or even empirical evidence) to suggest that the level of interest from prospective students is dependent on school size. Yet the number of students offered admission/enrolled is almost entirely dependent on school size. Thus, simple math suggests Smaller Schools will have Lower Acceptance Rates all things being equal. For that reason, I view acceptance rate as a poor indicator of selectivity and focus instead on the mean and 25-75% of standardized test scores. Evidently US News sees the same problem with acceptance rates as a measure of selectivity since they’ve adjusted their algorithm to emphasize test scores and deemphasize acceptance rates. [/quote]
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