Anonymous
Post 04/16/2024 09:59     Subject: Top 52 Colleges & Universities Ranked By Selectivity (Wallethub.com)
Anonymous wrote:Methodology used admissions rate, 25th% SAT/ACT scores, 75th% SAT/ACT scores, and % of freshmen in top 10% of class.

1) MIT
2) CalTech
3) Harvard
4) U Chicago
5) Stanford
6) Columbia
7) Yale
8) JHU
9) Northwestern
10) Duke

11) Brown
12) Princeton
13) Dartmouth
14) Vanderbilt
15) U Penn
16) Pomona College
17) Rice
18) Swarthmore College
19) Cornell
20) Amherst College

21) Harvey Mudd
22) Carnegie Mellon U.
23) WashUStL
24) Barnard College
25) NYU
26) Colby College
27) Tufts
28) Haverford College
29) N'eastern
30) Notre Dame

31) Georgetown
32) UCLA
33) Hamilton College
34) USC
35) Middlebury College
36) UCal-Berkeley
37) Emory
38) Wellesley College
39) Boston College
40) Colgate University

41) Claremont McKenna College
42) U Virginia
43) Grinnell College
44) Wash & Lee University
45) Georgia Tech
46) Wesleyan University
47) Vassar College
48) Boston University
49) U Michigan
50) Carleton College
51) RISD
52) Tulane


Nice representation of selective schools and mix of national universities and SLACs. RISD is a great school for the art inclined.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2024 06:21     Subject: Top 52 Colleges & Universities Ranked By Selectivity (Wallethub.com)
WalletHub... an entire business model built on clickbait
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2024 00:28     Subject: Top 52 Colleges & Universities Ranked By Selectivity (Wallethub.com)
It’s free to apply to Colby! And they send so much spam emails to entice kids to hit the easy apply free button to add Colby
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2024 00:05     Subject: Top 52 Colleges & Universities Ranked By Selectivity (Wallethub.com)
Anonymous wrote:But so many have high TO admits?
UChicago
Vanderbilt
Pomona
Amherst

What “methodology” are they using in lieu for those kids?



For the past two years, with the exception of MIT almost none of these schools have been test mandatory. Kind of a pointless data point at this moment in time. Maybe in two or three years when everyone - excepting maybe Pomona and the UCs - gets back to testing required.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2024 00:01     Subject: Top 52 Colleges & Universities Ranked By Selectivity (Wallethub.com)
No Wake…interesting. I do like this methodology though.
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2024 23:17     Subject: Top 52 Colleges & Universities Ranked By Selectivity (Wallethub.com)
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:But so many have high TO admits?
UChicago
Vanderbilt
Pomona
Amherst

What “methodology” are they using in lieu for those kids?


I do not know. Probably just used the data published by each school.

This is not a definitive list; it is a fun list used to compare schools based on the available data.


Accuracy tho? If 50% don’t submit?
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2024 23:15     Subject: Top 52 Colleges & Universities Ranked By Selectivity (Wallethub.com)
Anonymous wrote:Where’s Wash U?


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Anonymous
Post 04/15/2024 23:09     Subject: Top 52 Colleges & Universities Ranked By Selectivity (Wallethub.com)
Where’s Wash U?
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2024 22:20     Subject: Top 52 Colleges & Universities Ranked By Selectivity (Wallethub.com)
Anonymous wrote:But so many have high TO admits?
UChicago
Vanderbilt
Pomona
Amherst

What “methodology” are they using in lieu for those kids?


I do not know. Probably just used the data published by each school.

This is not a definitive list; it is a fun list used to compare schools based on the available data.
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2024 22:14     Subject: Re:Top 52 Colleges & Universities Ranked By Selectivity (Wallethub.com)
(OP again)

https://wallethub.com/edu/e/college-rankings/40750
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2024 22:11     Subject: Re:Top 52 Colleges & Universities Ranked By Selectivity (Wallethub.com)
The methodology was stated in the first post in this thread. Heaviest weight given to "admissions rate", then equal rate given to the other 3 categories (25th% SAT/ACT, 75th% SAT/ACT, and % of freshmen in top 10% of class).
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2024 22:06     Subject: Top 52 Colleges & Universities Ranked By Selectivity (Wallethub.com)
But so many have high TO admits?
UChicago
Vanderbilt
Pomona
Amherst

What “methodology” are they using in lieu for those kids?
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2024 22:03     Subject: Re:Top 52 Colleges & Universities Ranked By Selectivity (Wallethub.com)
Anonymous wrote:(OP here)

Odd that Bowdoin College was apparently overlooked.


Williams too
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2024 22:00     Subject: Re:Top 52 Colleges & Universities Ranked By Selectivity (Wallethub.com)
(OP here)

Odd that Bowdoin College was apparently overlooked.
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2024 21:58     Subject: Top 52 Colleges & Universities Ranked By Selectivity (Wallethub.com)
Methodology used admissions rate, 25th% SAT/ACT scores, 75th% SAT/ACT scores, and % of freshmen in top 10% of class.

1) MIT
2) CalTech
3) Harvard
4) U Chicago
5) Stanford
6) Columbia
7) Yale
8) JHU
9) Northwestern
10) Duke

11) Brown
12) Princeton
13) Dartmouth
14) Vanderbilt
15) U Penn
16) Pomona College
17) Rice
18) Swarthmore College
19) Cornell
20) Amherst College

21) Harvey Mudd
22) Carnegie Mellon U.
23) WashUStL
24) Barnard College
25) NYU
26) Colby College
27) Tufts
28) Haverford College
29) N'eastern
30) Notre Dame

31) Georgetown
32) UCLA
33) Hamilton College
34) USC
35) Middlebury College
36) UCal-Berkeley
37) Emory
38) Wellesley College
39) Boston College
40) Colgate University

41) Claremont McKenna College
42) U Virginia
43) Grinnell College
44) Wash & Lee University
45) Georgia Tech
46) Wesleyan University
47) Vassar College
48) Boston University
49) U Michigan
50) Carleton College
51) RISD
52) Tulane