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[quote=Anonymous][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.  
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Perfect Timing - Just as schools are deemphasizing test scores and the SAT is begins its steady decline to irrelevance.

As for the point about school size, huh?  You must have skipped Econ 101 at that large school of yours.[/quote]

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