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[quote=SAM2][quote=Anonymous]My suggestion would be to blend in the hard matriculation data that the schools make available ...[/quote]
That's exactly what I did. For example, I used the 2004 WSJ number for NCS (22 students at 10 examined colleges in 2003), and then added to that the numbers NCS supplies for those exact same 10 colleges for the period 2005-2009 (97 students at 10 colleges for that period). I performed that same analysis for NCS for the colleges studied by the 2007 WSJ report (8 colleges), and for the 2002 Worth report (3 colleges). Then I averaged the resulting percentages to obtain a blended result. The final percentage is not really a reflection of what percentage of students actually attend all top colleges in the country -- that's more what Matriculationstats was trying to examine by making judgments as to which colleges are top colleges. Instead, my analysis looks at what percentage attended [i]certain[/i] top colleges, and just extends the WSJ/Worth methodologies to several additional years where data is available. [/quote]

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