<p>I was just discussing this with a young lady on this board about Simmons. Just as admissions data is an average so is NPC info. Anyone who is applying to a specialty program should understand that the data may not be relevant at all. An example is a nursing program. The aerospace program at Purdue is another such case. CMU has a number of schools and getting into the Computer Science departement is a whole other story from getting into HS&S. THe same if there are auditions or portfolids involved. Just as admissions is affected so are aid packages and even more acutely merit awards. Merit money is used to “buy” what a school wants and needs. A school is not likely to pay for students when they have a surplus of that sort standing in line to come.</p>