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<p>This is an obvious mistake - not sure how they got 7.6% admission rate for Rust College, for example, but by the college’s own admission (see their webpage at <a href=“http://www.rustcollege.edu%5B/url%5D”>www.rustcollege.edu</a>) they are less selective with an average student ACT score of 16.</p>
<p>Similarly, Jarvis Christian College admits 100% of applicants (not 4.5% that US News reports), Alice Loyd College of Kentucky admits 41% of applicants (not 10.5% that US News reports), Tougaloo College admits 96% (not 25.6% that US News reports), and so on.</p>
<p>One thing that really confuses me is that both The College Board and US News & World Report claim that Mississippi Valley State University admits 24.7% of applicants, making it more selective than Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, Tufts, or Emory. I know someone who used to be a faculty member there; this seems totally ludicrous to me. MVSU is (or at least was, until two years ago!) practically an open-admission school, with the average freshman GPA of 2.58 and middle 50% ACT scores of 15 - 18, and less than 70% of their faculty hold doctoral degrees. Now, I don’t say this to demean the school, which serves an important function in the Delta region of MS, but I’m just totally mystified by this purported statistic. </p>
<p>What’s going on with the data? I wonder if there is a problem with the data inputted for Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs)? Rust, Tougaloo, and MVSU are all HBCUs. </p>
<p>Or just schools from the South? For example, US News also claims that Delta State University (also, coincidentally, in the Delta of Miss.) is as selective than Colby (30ish% admit rate). To put this in perspective, this school has a 43% 6-year graduation rate, an average incoming GPA of 2.9, and 25/75 ACT scores of 18-22.</p>
<p>Good catch dragonmom.</p>