<p>I was looking at the college ratings and the college statistics for acceptance, and I was just wondering...why are their acceptances so high? Their acceptance are higher than places like Tufts, which is technically lower on the list. So I was just wondering why it is like this...BTW their acceptance percent is ~45%.</p>
<p>Because their yield is relatively low. That's why.</p>
<p>CMU accepted 34.8% of male applicants and 46.8% of female applicants. </p>
<p>24.3% of male admits matriculated; 20.9% of female admits matriculated.</p>
<p>One possibility: Because CMU is highly specialized and not an all-things-to-all people university, it draws a highly self-selecting pool. It also has a College of Fine Arts where the audition/portfolio counts much more than grades and SATs; and a School of Architecture that emphasizes creative achievement. That might make their admit rate appear high and SATs appear lower than an institution's w/o these peculiarities. Wonder if USNews is really that sophisticated in reading the data, though?</p>
<p>On the other side of the ledger, CMU gets significantly higher peer review scores from USNews than Tufts.</p>
<p>Isn't Tufts a smaller school, too?</p>