Anonymous
Post 04/28/2024 13:36     Subject: Most Selective Schools- 2024 by College Raptor
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Anonymous wrote:Institutions like Minerva, Curtis, Julliard, etc should have giant asterixis. They aren't really like the others. With a place like Minerva you may as well be comparing Stanford against tutelage under a tree with Socrates.

I've always kind of felt that way about STEM-focused schools like Cal Tech and military academies.


Nah. Caltech requires students to take distribution courses outside the sciences, whereas my sibling went to Juilliard and really only learned music.


I am going to guess that your sibling was immensely talented in music, like top .1% talented. Schools like Julliard are just as impessive to me as a school like Cal Tech. One wants to be a musician, the other an astrophysist. Both are at tippy top of their talent levels.


Yep. They're first chair of their instrument at a major orchestra. I'm pretty proud of them!
Anonymous
Post 04/28/2024 09:18     Subject: Re:Most Selective Schools- 2024 by College Raptor
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Anonymous wrote:The list is obviously bunk since it doesn't have UVA


UVA clocking in at 78. Just behind UNC.


UVA admits more OOS than other top publics, which decreases their yield rate. Basically, if you’re instate and have a great public school option, kids frequently take it. So, schools like Berkeley, UCLA, UT-Austin, and UNC are biased upward by the small share of seats for OOS. UVA and Michigan get dinged for offering more seats to OOS.


Yes! UVA's yield is over 50% for in-state!
Anonymous
Post 04/28/2024 08:55     Subject: Re:Most Selective Schools- 2024 by College Raptor
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The list is obviously bunk since it doesn't have UVA


UVA clocking in at 78. Just behind UNC.


UVA admits more OOS than other top publics, which decreases their yield rate. Basically, if you’re instate and have a great public school option, kids frequently take it. So, schools like Berkeley, UCLA, UT-Austin, and UNC are biased upward by the small share of seats for OOS. UVA and Michigan get dinged for offering more seats to OOS.
Anonymous
Post 04/28/2024 08:13     Subject: Most Selective Schools- 2024 by College Raptor
Anonymous wrote:Eastern International College is not a selective college. Its presence on the list is a sign of a quality control problem.


The list is meaningless, because it doesn't account for all the free apps--Colby, Northeastern--to increase the number and lower acceptance rates.
Anonymous
Post 04/28/2024 08:10     Subject: Most Selective Schools- 2024 by College Raptor
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Anonymous wrote:Do sites like this get their data from public records, or do they get them from the university directly? I know that UChicago doesn't give out a lot of information, so I wonder where they get it from?


The data seems somewhat outdated too. It's from 2021-2022





Were you looking for 2025 data?


At some point the Covid data will work its way out of the system.
Anonymous
Post 04/27/2024 23:09     Subject: Most Selective Schools- 2024 by College Raptor
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Do sites like this get their data from public records, or do they get them from the university directly? I know that UChicago doesn't give out a lot of information, so I wonder where they get it from?


The data seems somewhat outdated too. It's from 2021-2022





Were you looking for 2025 data?
Anonymous
Post 04/27/2024 23:07     Subject: Most Selective Schools- 2024 by College Raptor
Anonymous wrote:Do sites like this get their data from public records, or do they get them from the university directly? I know that UChicago doesn't give out a lot of information, so I wonder where they get it from?


The data seems somewhat outdated too. It's from 2021-2022



Anonymous
Post 04/27/2024 19:47     Subject: Most Selective Schools- 2024 by College Raptor
Do sites like this get their data from public records, or do they get them from the university directly? I know that UChicago doesn't give out a lot of information, so I wonder where they get it from?
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2024 17:33     Subject: Most Selective Schools- 2024 by College Raptor
Anonymous wrote:That actually is a pretty cool site.


Agree
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2024 17:23     Subject: Most Selective Schools- 2024 by College Raptor
Eastern International College is not a selective college. Its presence on the list is a sign of a quality control problem.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2024 17:01     Subject: Most Selective Schools- 2024 by College Raptor
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Institutions like Minerva, Curtis, Julliard, etc should have giant asterixis. They aren't really like the others. With a place like Minerva you may as well be comparing Stanford against tutelage under a tree with Socrates.

I've always kind of felt that way about STEM-focused schools like Cal Tech and military academies.


Nah. Caltech requires students to take distribution courses outside the sciences, whereas my sibling went to Juilliard and really only learned music.


I am going to guess that your sibling was immensely talented in music, like top .1% talented. Schools like Julliard are just as impessive to me as a school like Cal Tech. One wants to be a musician, the other an astrophysist. Both are at tippy top of their talent levels.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2024 14:29     Subject: Most Selective Schools- 2024 by College Raptor
Anonymous wrote:So, all Ivies on top. Not a surprise.


That's incorrect. Of the top 10 on that website, only half are Ivies.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2024 14:27     Subject: Most Selective Schools- 2024 by College Raptor
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Institutions like Minerva, Curtis, Julliard, etc should have giant asterixis. They aren't really like the others. With a place like Minerva you may as well be comparing Stanford against tutelage under a tree with Socrates.

I've always kind of felt that way about STEM-focused schools like Cal Tech and military academies.


Nah. Caltech requires students to take distribution courses outside the sciences, whereas my sibling went to Juilliard and really only learned music.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2024 14:23     Subject: Most Selective Schools- 2024 by College Raptor
Julliard's acceptance rate is in the single digits. It is also a really small school compared to most on the list.