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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]St Anselm's is not hard to get into.[/quote]

Incorrect.   Read the post above yours.  Plus, it's tiny like Maret. [/quote]

NP here.  [b]According to St. Anselm's Great Schools profile, 50% of applicants are admitted.  Sorry, that's not hard to get into by anyone's standards[/b] further, a school is not like Maret simply because it's tiny.  Maret is tiny AND has a large applicant pool, which St. Anselm's does not.  [/quote]

NP here, it should be obvious, but higher "admission percentage" does not necessarily translate into "easier admissions."  For example, CalTech has a similar admission rate as Middlebury College, yet the astronomically high math SAT scores needed to get accepted at CalTech limits the number of applicants who even bother to apply (as does the particular focus of the school, presumably).   I think most would agree that despite their similar admission rates, it would be "harder" for the typical smart HS student to get into CalTech than to get into Middlebury.

A school like St. Anselm's -- which is highly academic, Catholic, very small class size, located in a relatively "remote" part of the city, and plays in a weak sports conference -- is by its very nature going to limit the applicant pool interested in that combination of school attributes.  But if it has very high academic requirements to gain admisssion, in the form of requiring very high GPAs and test scores, it may still be considered among the most difficult schools to gain admission to, regardless of its "admission rate." [/quote]

Um, actually a higher admissions percentage does mean less hard to get into.   And your information about Middlebury and Caltrch is wrong,  Caltech admits 10.6 % of applicants to Middlebury's 17.3 %, which means that, yes, Caltech is harder to get into.

There are no specific score cut-offs for admissions to St. Anselm's except those claimed by DCUM posters in a effort to claim greater competitiveness.  The admissions office states that it considers all factors in the decision making.   And, as the admissions testing is um, PART, of the admissions process (administered by St. Anselm's), it still means 50% of the boys who applied "passed" the rigorous requirements.

What you're arguing is that the applicant pool is somewhat more rarefied than applicants to other schools.  It's certainly self-selecting, but that does not make it necessarily a higher achieving applicant pool. [/quote]

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