<p>The purpose of a public university is to give as many people as possible the best education it can offer. Given this, I don’t quite understand the obsession with selectivity. Past a certain point, stats no longer become a reasonable way of judging whether a school is of better quality than another. Rather, the quality of instruction, the undergraduate experience, etc. should be the focus. Of course, if we want to talk about selectivity, then we can talk about Berkeley Regents, which is far more selective than any Ivy League, but why does it matter? Professors teaching at Cal are just as qualified as those teaching at Ivy Leagues. I have never met a Berkeley grad that was unsatisfied with his education at Cal while many of my interviewers for Ivies expressed their miserable undergraduate experiences at brand name schools.</p>