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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Best does not necessarily = most selective.[/quote]
And most selective does not necessarily = lowest acceptance rates.[/quote]

wut? how come?[/quote]
Many colleges entice large numbers of students to apply to boost their rankings and/or get application fees. Tulane is a great example of this. My daughter got AT LEAST 2 emails every week for a year from them plus many postcards in the mail. Indeed, their acceptance rate is only 12%. But that doesn't mean much because you don't know what their applicant pool is like. They are notorious for getting low stat/unrealistic applicants to apply just to reject them. Selectivity of the candidate pool is the first and most important factor. You can have a rock bottom acceptance rate but if it’s from a mediocre candidate pool, then your results will still be mediocre.

Limestone University, Ottawa University in Kansas, and Jarvis Christian College have lower acceptance rates (14%) than Tufts (15%), UVA (24%), and Notre Dame (16%). That doesn't mean they're better schools or more selective. Their applicant pool is probably just bad. [/quote]

Yeah but everybody plays that game. [/quote]
[b]not really. i[/b]'ve had four kids go through the college application process in the past eight years and there a number of schools who just take it to an extreme leve.. read any college forum, hell, there have even been articles in major publications about this topic, and you will find out which schools take this tactic to artificially lower their acceptance rates.[/quote]

Yes really. The ones who don't have bigger budget can't play at the same level as the ones with big buckets. But yeah, it's not because they believe in some sort of higher level to teaching/learning. Schools are no different than businesses, ranking means money, sports means money, they need that resource to keep the machine running. [/quote]

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