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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dishonest? Public flagships like U Mich and UNC have a mandate to cater to in-state residents. The transfer admission rate for each is skewed by the acceptance of in-state students who excel in community college in years 1-2. Which is exactly how it should be.

[quote=Anonymous]Nothing wrong with ED. What is wrong in my opinion is schools with very high transfer rates but low freshman acceptance rates. Like Umich, UNC. NYU, etc. NYU has a 37% transfer acceptance rate, but 8% freshman rate. That's dishonest.  [/quote][/quote]
It's dishonest, they could have easily accepted them as freshman, they clearly have the space. Im so tired of people constantly making excuses for publics, that never allow the same grace to private schools. They're just not elite schools and they're pretending to be. You can't be egalitarian and elitist, they need to choose one and stand on that hill. But 15% freshman acceptance rates from Umich and UNC but 40....yes FOURTY % acceptance rates as transfers is embarrassing. They could balance it out more but they won't because they know most aren't paying attention. [/quote]

I guess we can all agree that Columbia isn’t elite because 1/3 of its undergraduates attend the SGS.  They are admitted at a 30% clip, yes THIRTY!   [/quote]
Columbia's SGS doesnt count as elite. It is a different program with different metrics for acceptance than the traditional colleges.[/quote]

+100. 1/3 of the undergrad population who got in with much lower criteria /stats dilutes the ug population significantly enough to bump them out of T10, should be more like 15-20. [/quote]

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