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

<p>Getting back to the selectivity rank, I think it’s a matter of what I’ll call “squeeze” factor-- how many students apply, how many want to go, how many end up turning the school down. By that data, you’ll see more students making more noise about wanting to go to Notre Dame, or USC than you will students making noise about wanting to go to Chicago. That’s something I don’t think CC reflects very well, but I see it in the outside world.</p>

<p>Then, another part of me is just asking who the hey cares about these particulars with respect to putting up elite schools against each other.</p>