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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good grief. Do you know how easy it is to send off 15 applications today with the Common app? High stats kids apply everywhere. Of course the schools latch onto to those ADMIT stats. The more important stats should be the students ATTENDING the college.[/quote]

Yup. In that case, I doubt the SLACs could compare to the top universities.[/quote]

Just why do DC users make such blanket statements?

Pomona's ENROLLED student selectivity is comparable to Duke/Columbia/Penn/Stanford, as the link posted before (http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1789717-ranking-by-selectivity-for-help-picking-reaches-matches-safeties-p1.html) pointed out. These are numbers based on ENROLLED students. Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, and Bowdoin are all above Brown, Johns Hopkin, and Georgetown, which are top universities.

Furthermore, the top LACs are taking a higher percent of underrepresented minorities and Pell Grant students than the universities that have a higher testing average and even many that have comparable scores, so that makes it all the more impressive. Is it that impressive that Caltech has such a high testing average when only 1.5% of their student body is Black? Not to me, no. Everything has to be thought about in perspective. You can't just look at numbers without context and then use them to decide what's better. [/quote]

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