Part VI: Ignore the Rankings and Focus on the Data (Selectivity)

[middsmith]

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Yeah, ignore the high school rank because private schools emply a more holistic admissions process than the publics. Also, most private school kids take more challenging courses in HS than public school kids. This is important to consider because private schools look at “Strength of Curriculum” a lot more closely than public schools. In the UC system, I believe that a student won’t even be accepted to some of the UCs if he/she isn’t in the top 10% of a graduating class. Ridiculous.

Oh please, you conveniently forgot private schools practice AA and admit URMs. That’s why they have lower % of students in the top 10%.</p>