<p>collegehelp put his or her finger on the essence of schools that have the REPUTATION of being “self selecting”. In most cases these schools are self-selecting at the yield stage. People who get in choose to go elsewhere. Thus the high admissions rate, given the school’s academic status.
The University of Chicago has only recently had its yield rate surpass its admissions rate. Images continue for a while, but if this persists, before long people will stop describing University of Chicago applicants as “self-selecting”.
Case Western has no such luck.</p>