<p>“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”</p>
<p>–Albert Einstein</p>
<p>Do you believe what you type?</p>
<p>absolutely</p>
<p>I would do a more specific listing based on colleges within the university as well. Carnegie Mellon’s 2nd and 3rd largest schools are CFA and HSS which have way lower GPA and SAT averages than the rest of the school’s engineering/sciences/business/cs/etc. colleges which consequently hurts the overall university’s average. CFA for example, focuses primarily on auditions and portfolios and not on scores/gpa.</p>
<p>hoedown,
The ACT scores above are for students who have scored 30 and above. Thanks for the correction.</p>
<p>lfecollegebuy,
It is possible that Carnegie Mellon already takes the CFA and HSS students out of their calculation of standardized test scores. This is one of the dirty little secrets of reporting as some schools do this in order to boost their reported numbers. I don’t know CMU’s policy, but maybe someone with greater familiarity can post on this.</p>
<p>Many of these colleges have not released their profiles for the fall 2008 incoming class. Some of these admittance rates changed because of the large numbers of applicants.</p>
<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>
<p>does anyone honestly believe WUSTL is more selective than stanford (not to mention all those other schools)?</p>
<p>Considering how much selectivity has changed in the past admissions year, I don’t really think this data is that useful. Acceptance rates at some schools went down a whole 10%.</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone would say that WashU is more selective than Stanford. However, the numbers show that it might care more about objective stats like SAT score than other schools like Stanford. Either that or Stanford takes a hit in SAT math because it has to field a whole slew of D1 Pac10 teams while WashU only has to worry about D3.</p>
<p>Don’t the rankings and data go hand in hand? What is the difference between attending the “#1 college versus #2” or “#7 versus #9”</p>