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Oh, I don’t think that’s at all why it made the list. There are many colleges with such acceptance rates. You neglected to include an obvious option - Curtis with a 5.1% admit rate - but included Mudd with a 34.1% admit rate, for example.* Perhaps the Curtis Institute would have been included if it had an engineering program.</p>
<p>Of course, one would be quite right not to judge colleges based on admit rates. Who here would argue that Alice Lloyd is more prestigious than Princeton? The College of the Ozarks more prestigious than Dartmouth? Berea more prestigious than Cornell? The acceptance rates would say that such is indeed the case, however!</p>
<p>*This US News data seems outdated. IPEDS reports a 23% admit rate for Mudd.</p>