<p>Agreed...theres a reason why admissions isn't based just on SAT score.</p>
<p>"as if those numbers are some sort of trump statistic that overrides quality of professors, strength of various academic departments, size of the school, etc."</p>
<p>-I don’t know how "quality of professors" could be decided objectively, and don't think that the size of a school is something that would command better or worse academics.</p>
<p>PA rankings on US News try to measure quality of profs objectively...sort of</p>