PRs new 2005 college selectivity rankings are out

College Search & Selection
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<p>The toughest schools to get into in order are:</p>

<li>MIT</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Cal Tech</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
</ol>

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<p>I don't think that is based solely on selectivitiy, I think they factor in the caliber of students applying as well as the number rejected, for example, Juilliard school is more selective than Princeton, but the students don't require much knowledge outside of the field of music, therefore, it isn't ranked.</p>

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<p>here's more:</p>

<ol>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Swarthmore</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Columbia University - Columbia College</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Pomona</li>
<li>Amherst</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
</ol>

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<p>Yay! Let's all rejoice in the wonderfulness of the Princeton Review Rankings! By wonderfulness I mean completely arbitrary. However, the selectivity rankings do seem to have more credibility than most of their other rankings.</p>

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<p>Of course they are more accurate - all they have to do is look at average SAT scores, average high school performance, % admitted, and the high school profile of the average student. It's just a matter of crunching numbers, as opposed to an overall ranking which has to take into account the actual college, not just admittance rates.</p>

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<p>Does anyone have the top 50?</p>

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<p>I thought the PR selectivity ranking was pretty old ?</p>

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<p>These rankings have been out since the summer.</p>

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<p>PR selectivity ratings may be more accurate than some of their other ratings, but they are still pretty bad.</p>

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<p>The top schools for each are the same.</p>

<p>Atlantic Monthly top 10 & PR Selectivity top 10</p>

<ol>
<li>MIT </li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
</ol>