The Beauty of College Confidential

Colleges and Universities A-Z Northwestern University
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<p>This is the beauty of CC; people can just post whatever they want and state it like fact, check this out from a guy with 30 posts:</p>

<p>"Pomona is one of the most elite LACs and Brown is a strong Ivy League University. Northwestern isn't quite at the same level."</p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=370109&page=5%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=370109&page=5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>heh, i love it</p>

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<p>i agree with him :-P</p>

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<p>he makes it seem like theres a substantial difference b/t NU and Brown and Pomona. I would say Brown and NU are at the same level. i dont know about selectiviy cuz who the hell cares? Pomona's a LAC so idk why it can be compared to a university in "levels".</p>

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<p>I still don't know what 'selective' means.</p>

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<p>selectivity is how hard it is to get into the school.</p>

<p>to be fair, in a way it's true, pomona has a much smaller class and thus, accepts far fewer people than NU.</p>

<p>but does that really matter?</p>

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<p>"selectivity is how hard it is to get into the school."</p>

<p>-Well duh... But how can this be determined? How does one know it's 'harder' to get into one school than another?</p>

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<p>Thought experiment time:</p>

<p>I run a school with a class size of 10. My professors are good, the program is rigorous, but its nothing amazing. 1000 people apply to join the program. A program as exclusive and unusual as this is likely to have something like 90% yield, so assume only 11 people are offered admission (10, then one off the waitlist). </p>

<p>Now compare to Harvard. Only 1% of people got into my program, its really 10x as selective as Harvard, right? </p>

<p>That is why his statement is a steaming pile of bull.</p>

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<p>selectivity....hmmm yeah nu is easier to get into
some of my friends got into either pomona or brown but they got waitinglisted or rejected by northwestern. lol</p>

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<p>
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yeah nu is easier to get into
some of my friends got into either pomona or brown but they got waitinglisted or rejected by northwestern. lol

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<p>Doesn't that make NU harder to get into and not easier? Or were you being sarcastic? I'm confused :&lt;/p>

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<p>That was sarcasm methinks.</p>

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<p>"Doesn't that make NU harder to get into"</p>

<p>-Nope; that's just one person's anecdote. This is (largely) why I believe it difficult to say (definitively) which (top) schools are more 'selective' than others.</p>