<p>"Out of state students usually have a severe disadvantage applying to private schools"</p>
<p>You can't be serious? Massachusetts students are at a disadvantage b/c of the enormous number of applications from in-state students. Tufts is actively recruiting from states outside of the NE corridor</p>
<p>“especially regionally prestigious ones such as Tufts and Rice.”</p>
<p>When did Tufts become regional?</p>
<p>"Other factors such as peer-assessment brings Tufts down on the overall rankings every year."</p>
<p>Are you saying the opinion of administrative peers is inconsequential?</p>
<p>"Out of state students certainly do matter in private schools"</p>
<p>Why? Are they more qualified than in-state students? Is UCLA better or worse b/c they admit very few out-of-state students? Columbia could fill an entire class of higher statistically rated students-- than are presently enrolled-- just from N.Y..Or entirely outside of N.Y., for that matter...So ? Or is M.I.T better b/c the college actively recruits and enrolls students outside of Massachusetts? Why are international students not considered? After all, a global reputation of a college and the resulting highly qualified applications must count for something.</p>
<p>"Looking at the percentage of students accepted does not denote selectivity or how difficult a school is to get into."</p>
<p>It doesn’t? Harvard admits 10% of their applicants. That’s doesn’t denote selectivity or how difficult it is to be admitted? If a college admits only one of ten students, and in your opinion that doesn’t constitute how difficult is to be admitted or selectivity, what does it designate?<br>
If percentage of students admitted isn’t consequential, why is it part of PRs selectivity rating? </p>
<p>Additionally, the SAT and gpa averages (which are lower) for the NU School of Music, etc., were used to ascertain the selectivity rating for NU (as well as many comparative colleges)….. Tufts had no such college’s averages included in their formulas to adversely affect their rating. Again---apples to oranges.
And what you and PR failed to realize is /difficulty of curriculum/ is as, if not more, important than gpa. It's not considered in the formula. Nor are weighted and un-weighted gpas' differentiated among reporting universities. As I said, PR is extremely flawed</p>
<p>There's no point in arguing. The selectivity numbers are within 1%..Meaningless for comparison. Even someone working in Tufts admissions would agree. ;)</p>