<p>I don’t understand this obsession with acceptance rates. </p>
<p>A school could get a bunch of 5 year olds to apply, reject them all, and drop their rate simply because they were able to do a slick marketing campaign and reject so many people. </p>
<p>I just don’t know. Duke, Northwestern, UChicago, and Johns Hopkins all have relatively high acceptance rates, yet I doubt any reasonable person would consider the education they offer or level of research they produce inferior to non-HYP Ivies.</p>