<p>It must be recognized that, in the above list, for multi-college universities you are lumping together apples and oranges, then comparing them with predominantly liberal arts colleges that have only apples.</p>
<p>For most purposes, a student considering applying to a liberal arts college, such as most of the schools on the above list, should be primarily concerned about the admissions profile of a given university’s liberal arts college, and not the other specialty colleges at that university that the student is not applying to. </p>
<p>For example, at Cornell the comparable stats for its College of Arts & Sciences is 1415. For its engineering college it was 1440. These differences may be material to applicants to particular colleges there. The same applies to other multi-college universities on the list. An applicant is not applying to some imaginary amalgam of a university’s colleges, only to specific colleges there.</p>