Kudos to @mtmind for making me aware of this, but here is an excellent opinion article on the selectivity issue in college admissions: The cult of selectivity distorts what really matters in admissions (opinion)
There is also a citation within this article to a 2016 NYT article on being a bit too exuberant on selectivity by Frank Bruni that made me laugh out loud!: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/opinion/college-admissions-shocker.html?_r=1.
Apologies if you’ve seen these before, but I hadn’t. Enjoy.