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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, but you're just saying:

Admissions rate = acceptances / applications

And you're saying the denominator is smaller at LACs than at Ivies, because LACs have fewer applicants.

But you're ignoring that the numerator--acceptances--is also lower at LACs. Last year Pomona admitted 970 out of 8091 applications, or 10%. Compare to Harvard which accepted maybe 2000 out of 37,000 applications, for an acceptance rate of 5%.

5% is still less than 10%.

Nor does it follow that the 2000 accepted by Harvard are necessarily of lower caliber than the 970 accepted by Pomona.

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How'd you get 970? Pomona took 765.

Anyway, I think the point is, and it has been illustrated, that while the most tippy top universities are more selective than the tippy top LACs, the top LACs draw a stronger pool, so the difference isn't as much as the admit rates suggest. It may be as difficult to get into Amherst as Penn, even if Penn has a 9.5% admit rate compared to Amherst's 12%.[/quote]

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