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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the idea that emory is better than middlebury is laughable.  even more laughable is the idea that it would attract the same kind of student.  midd is an elite school; top 10 SLAC in the country. Emory is ranked 21 on university list.  however, none of that matters because a kid who is going to desire to go to midd is not going to want to go to emory and vice versa. they will attract a different kind of student; urban/rural; medium/small; greek life/no greek life; more pre-professional/true SLAC focused on languages and environmental studies. this is why the comparisons are just plain stupid.
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https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Middlebury+College&with=Emory+University

You overrating Middlebury to the heavens. [/quote]

Only in DCUM world would someone try to make a point that Emory is better than Midd and post a link that shows them chosen 50-50.[/quote]
I'm not PP[/quote]

That's the thing - no matter which side you are on it is literally 50-50 negating any corroborative value.[/quote]
[b]Parchment is a bogus site and cannot be trusted for valuable data. The site says that Emory's avg ACT is 20 for admitted students. TWENTY!![/b] [/quote]

I'm sorry, it does not say that is the average score for [b]admitted [/b]students, it says that is the average score for students "[b]interested in[/b]" Emory--two very different things I think you would agree.  See

https://www.parchment.com/u/college/436-Emory-University/profile

Not sure how you could have misread that.

I might add that at my son's school, all students take the SAT in their junior year.  Even those who do well on the SAT will then take the ACT in their senior year just for the heck of it to see how it goes.  The average SAT score ends up being much better than the average ACT score. Each student reports the better score (SAT vs. ACT) when applying to colleges. So average ACT score of an "interested student" might be very different from the average ACT score of admitted students who choose to report ACT.[/quote]

Parchment says it is based on actual data, but there could be some sort of bias in the schools that provide data to Parchment.  I find it is plausible, particularly for schools where there is a significant overlap in applications.  It won't really provide direct insights on selectivity.  For instance, 81% of cross-admits choose MIT over Caltech, so 4 to 1.  But if you consider that there are about 4.5 MIT undergraduates for every 1 Caltech undergraduates, you can see that it is likely with the number of common applicants, Caltech couldn't be 50-50 with MIT unless it were significantly larger than it is.  They would be overenrolled at 50-50.  Caltech actually has slightly higher stats than MIT.[/quote]
Your argument makes no sense.  Based on the parchment data, in the population of students accepted to both schools, 80% choose MIT.  The schools obviously admit more students than can enroll based on yield information.  There is no size adjustment needed.[/quote]

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