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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More apps = lower acceptance rate = more selective [/quote]

[b]Seems unethical to get kids' hopes up in order to lower your admissions rate.[/quote][/b]

Yes, but they don't care.  The job of the people mailing you that stuff is to get your kid to apply so the institution can turn them down =  a higher selective institution number that can be reported to the USNWR.  [/quote]

You people need to read and learn before you post your tinfoil hat theories.

USNWR has not used acceptance rate in their calculation for years.  [/quote]

But acceptance rate is always the first (and usually only) data point people cite when they talk about “selective/prestigious” schools.

You’re delusional if you don’t think the schools know that and encourage applications for that reason (among others). [/quote]

Did you read the sentence [i]"so the institution can turn them down =  a higher selective institution number [b]that can be reported to the [/b][b][u]USNWR[/u][/b]"?[/i]

Do you know that was what I was responding to?

Why are you moving the goalposts?[/quote]

I’m a DP. You’re wrong. The number is reported to/by USNWR, even if it doesn’t include it as part of their ranking formula.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/lowest-acceptance-rate

In any case, you (I assume the person arguing this point in multiple posts is all you) keep arguing that the colleges don’t care about/have no incentive to lower their acceptance rates. Whether it’s USNWR or somewhere else in the internet college admission industrial complex where this data gets reported, it very clearly matters very much for a great many people as an independent data point, and, therefore, the schools themselves, whether or not it impacts their overall USNWR ranking. It’s silly to suggest otherwise. [/quote]

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