<p>^Okay. Just since it said “Admission statistics–Class of 2015” rather than “class profile” it wasn’t clear to me. Different schools present it differently, obviously.</p>
<p>USC, Berkeley’s SATs may be misleading as they likely dont include spring admits with a lot lower SATs and higher admissions rates (this is in addition to the relatively high fall admit rates - for berkeley, the admit rate rate will likely increase or stay the same as it has this year due to the economy and requiring Berkeley to admit more out of state and international applicants who can pay full fare). Spring admissions is a good way to game the system (i.e. let’s inflate our stats by offering admission to weaker students at a later time so we don’t have to include them in US News.)</p>
<p>These rankings were by ACT with SAT being the tie breaker. Some prominent schools are missing because they publish limited data on ACT but do show SAT as it is dominant for their class statistics. 32 was the lowest score shown but some schools not shown may in fact had higher SAT scores than 1380.</p>
<p>Still this gives a good picture again by ACT of those schools whose entering class scores the highest.</p>
<p>Note that the schools sharing the lowest ACT score on the OP’s list (32) have admit rates ranging from <14% (AF Academy) to >80% (Hendrix).</p>
<p>You get a rather different picture of selectivity after factoring in the admit rate and GPA.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/687793-selectivity-ranking-national-us-lacs-combined-usnews-method.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/687793-selectivity-ranking-national-us-lacs-combined-usnews-method.html</a></p>
<p>In this composite ranking (GPA + admit rate + scores), W&L (ACT 32) is ranked 34th most selective. Case Western, Hendrix, Wheaton, and Miami (all sharing the same ACT 32 score) are not among the 75 most selective.</p>
<p>Just because you have an ACT score of say 34, doesn’t not mean that you will be accepted for CMU or Rice, etc. GPA is more important.</p>
<p>For a school with a <25% admit rate and high average scores, all selection factors (rank, scores, rigor, GPA, ECs, essays, LORs, etc.) matter.</p>
<p>Blah, I think you have a point. I also don’t understand why Berkeley has to admit students during Spring time. If Berkeley has limited resources then it should not accept more students. It makes me think that Berkeley’s Chancellor is greedy…</p>