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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a 9th grader and starting to think about college (in the “what should she be doing to be well-positioned” way, not in the “let’s go on college visits” way). We don’t know what her stats will be, though she’s on track to finish first semester with all As and one B (in an AP class). Obviously no test scores yet. In thinking about the types of school she should be targeting, should we be looking at acceptance rate or ranking? For example, I see Tulane mentioned here a lot and I think she’d be interested. Tulane has a low acceptance rate (11%), but it’s ranked 73 by USNWR. Not sure what to make of these different stats. [/quote]

Someone probably has already said this, but Tulane’s current ranking is a function of USNWR changing its ranking criteria this year to more emphasize what would currently be referred to as “equity” components which would have little effect on the quality of education a high stats kid would receive there. In previous years Tulane was consistently ranked much higher.[/quote]

Then Tulane will continue to fall. They take 80% of their class ED and the vast majority are full pay, white students. Tulane would rather take a 3.5 GPA full pay ED student than a 4.3 Early Action student. It’s a fact. But, while this data manipulation gets Tulane a lower admission rate percentage, it creates little to no economic diversity. [/quote]

This. They can’t continue to manipulate data with ED and court Socio-economic diversity students. [/quote]

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