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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The admission percentages say differently, PP.  Both around 57% but Bama''s is a shade lower.  [/quote]

You can't just go by the admissions rate, as it depends on the applicant pool and admissions policies of the individual school.

In NoVa, Virginia Tech is a perfect example.  It has a higher overall admissions rate than either Alabama or Clemson (around 70% vs. 55-60%) but the chances of a kid from the DC suburbs with a 3.44 GPA getting in are both slim and much lower than his chances of getting into Alabama or Clemson as an out-of-state student.  The applicant pool is stronger and the school limits the number of admits from NoVa.  [/quote]

I am constantly amazed at how often educated people take admission rates as a direct correlation with a school'is selectivity.

A school with a large number of low-quality applicants will have a "low" admission rate. Schools game this like crazy in order to reduce their rate. I wish USNews would stop publishing it because it is so misleading and leads to an unhealthy focus on a meaningless metric. [/quote]

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