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<p>That was exactly my point. I was responding to this comment from the OP:</p>
<p>“not so prestigious” college that parties all the time that is easy to get in to</p>
<p>OP didn’t refer to the competitiveness of her peers - she referred to how difficult the school is to get into. My point was that acceptance rates (or how easy or difficult it is to get into a school) don’t mean much in terms of how competitive your classmates will be.</p>
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<p>I appreciate this! But I do it on purpose at CC because the students here tend to have different ideas about prestige/rankings than I do. Spelman is in the top 100 liberal arts colleges in the country - it’s a fantastic place - but here it seems like if you’re in the top 30 or so you’re nothing, so I try to use the language the HS seniors here understand.</p>
<p>I actually think this thread is a perfectly example of that, because reputationally UW-Seattle is not really that different from UA.</p>