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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"    Lol....that's pretty much the textbook definition of being twice as hard to get into.

Jarvis Christian College acceptance rate - 8%
Williams College acceptance rate - 18%
Is JCC over 2x as hard to get into than Williams?

Liberty University acceptance rate - 20%
College of William and Mary acceptance rate - 34%

Is Liberty almost 2 x as hard to get into as William and Mary? "

That Lol comment is exactly why I know that NE will continue to go up the ranking list.

More and more people will continue to apply to NE because they think they can't get into Tufts but can get into NE even though both school have the same average SAT scores.

As fewer apply to Tufts and more apply to NE and their admissions rates swap, US News will invert their ranking numbers.[/quote]

You cherry pick two outliers to support your bizarre theories.....interesting.[/quote]

There is nothing bizarre about what they said. I sort of doubt their prediction, but the point that acceptance rate doesn't matter is accurate. It is the easiest statistic to game, Tufts is famous for gaming both numerator (in fact numerator gaming is named after them), and denominator. Imagine the olympic team for a large country like India. They send 3 athletes for the 100 meters in track. does the fact that it is 3 out of 1 billion mean that it is harder to make the Indian olympic team than it is from a small country like Jamaica? Of course not. The only factor that determines that is the speed of the third place runner. Same for colleges. It doesn't matter how many unqualified kids they turn down, only what are the minimal qualifications needed to be admitted. Test scores are way more important than acceptance rate. [/quote]

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