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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dame has an 18% acceptance rate this year with a 22 % RD rate. That significantly higher than all the other schools in the top 25. [/quote]

Where are you getting 18% from? It’s definitely lower. The acceptance rates from last year at top schools show Notre Dame is on par with many of the best colleges.

Schools significantly more selective than Notre Dame:

Harvard (3%)
Stanford (4%)
Caltech (4%)
Columbia (4%)
MIT (4%)
Duke (5%)
Yale (5%)
Brown (5%)
Princeton (6%)
UPenn (6%)
Dartmouth (6%)
Vanderbilt (6%)
Northwestern (7%)
Cornell (7%)
John’s Hopkins (7%)

Notre Dame’s Peer Group Acceptance Rates:

Rice (9%)
UCLA (9%)
Tufts (10%)
WashU (11%)
Carnegie Mellon (11%)
Berkeley (11%)
Georgetown (12%)
[b]Notre Dame (13%)[/b]
Emory (16%)
UNC (17%)
Georgia Tech (17%)
UMich (18%)[/quote]

No horse in this race but I think this basically reaffirms my existing impression. Ivies, Stanford, MIT, Duke, etc. are still in a different league than Notre Dame, and instead their peer set is more like WashU, Georgetown, and Emory. Those are great schools too but not quite the level of the first grouping.[/quote]

That's because it is a Catholic university. Applicant choice, not academic quality. Academically they are not "in a different league."  [/quote]

This is just your opinion and boosters for Emory, WashU, etc. could make the exact same argument, because “academic quality” is highly subjective and there’s no agreed upon way to measure it. Whereas selectivity is measurable based on acceptance rates, yield rate, test scores/gpa of class. ND is selective but no more do than Georgetown, WashU, Emory, etc. If you want to argue it has better professors or academic rigor or academic opportunity than other schools, that’s fine, but people aren’t just going to take your word for it.[/quote]

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