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How hard a school is to get into is solely a factor of its acceptance rate. For 2021 Emory’s acceptance rate was 21.4%, Georgetown’s was 11% and Tufts was 14%. Sounds pretty selective…[/quote]

This isn't true (I have a kid at Tufts so I am certainly not trying to knock it).  Tufts takes a large fraction of its students through ED and the acceptance rate for the ED pool is far higher than 14%. They then accept a much, much smaller fraction of students through the RD pool and can still "show" very low acceptance rates overall.  See:

https://tuftsdaily.com/features/2018/03/01/early-bird-applicant-trends-early-admissions/

Many other schools do this too.

Some schools have "artificially" lowered their acceptance rates by dropping application fees and supplemental essays, making it cheap and easy to apply, thereby boosting the number of applicants and lowering their acceptance rates.

BTW, the Tufts student newspaper reports the 2021 acceptance rate as 11%. See

https://tuftsdaily.com/news/2021/04/12/tufts-admits-record-low-11-of-undergraduate-applicants/

For an interesting take on schools with very low acceptance rates, see

https://www.highereddatastories.com/2021/04/the-highly-rejective-colleges.html[/quote]

Great article - read it a few months ago. Think about it every time my DD receives lit from a few schools in this category.[/quote]

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