USNEWS Selectivity

<p>Anyone have the selectivity rankings for the top 25 schools?</p>

<p>hey slipper, do u have an aim or something i can talk to u outside of this chat room</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>CIT</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>WUSTL</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
</ol>

<p>umm. I know for a fact Yale was more selective than Harvard last year.</p>

<p>That is crazy...how is WUSTL #6!! And how is Penn so high?</p>

<p>By being totally awesome? ;)</p>

<p>For WUSTL... by waitlisting you!</p>

<p>"umm. I know for a fact Yale was more selective than Harvard last year."</p>

<p>umm, no you don't. realize that selectivity is a composite of many factors, including acceptance rate, high school class standing, and SAT scores. see:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/about/weight_brief.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/about/weight_brief.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>how isn't Rice there??? ru kidding????</p>

<p>oh ok, selectivity and acceptance percentage are not the same thing?</p>

<p>what are the other ones in the top 25?</p>

<p>Oh, actually, rice is 10. Sorry I made an error there. </p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>CIT</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>WUSTL</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Emory</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>Norte Dame</li>
<li>U Chicago</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>USC</li>
<li>UMichigan</li>
<li>UVA</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
</ol>

<p>From USNEWS:</p>

<p>Student selectivity (15 percent). A school's academic atmosphere is determined in part by the abilities and ambitions of the student body. We therefore factor in test scores of enrollees on the SAT or ACT tests (50 percent of the selectivity score); the proportion of enrolled freshmen who graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school classes for all national universities and liberal arts colleges, and the top 25 percent for institutions in the master's and comprehensive colleges categories (40 percent); and the acceptance rate, or the ratio of students admitted to applicants (10 percent). The data are for the fall 2004 entering class.</p>

<p>wow.....Nwestern is at 19, is that a joke behind Berklely, Gtown, Emory, UCLA...is that a joke?</p>

<p>Interesting to see this too...Penn must have a really high percentage in the top 10% of their class to be ranked so high in selectivity, as its scores are lower than many of the schools after it. </p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard University (MA) 1400-1580 </li>
<li>Princeton University (NJ) 1370-1560 </li>
<li>Yale University (CT) 1400-1560 </li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania 1330-1500 </li>
<li>Duke University (NC) 1330-1530 </li>
<li>Stanford University (CA) 1370-1550 </li>
<li>California Institute of Technology 1450-1570 </li>
<li>Massachusetts Inst. of Technology 1410-1560 </li>
<li>Columbia University (NY) 1330-1540 </li>
<li>Dartmouth College (NH) 1360-1550 </li>
<li>Washington University in St. Louis 1350-1520 </li>
<li>Northwestern University (IL) 1320-1500 </li>
<li>Cornell University (NY) 1290-1490 </li>
<li>Johns Hopkins University (MD) 1300-1490 </li>
<li>Brown University (RI) 1310-1520 </li>
<li>University of Chicago 1330-1530 </li>
<li>Rice University (TX) 1330-1540 </li>
<li>University of Notre Dame (IN) 1280-1470 </li>
<li>Vanderbilt University (TN) 1270-1440 </li>
<li>Emory University (GA) 1300-1460 </li>
<li>University of California – Berkeley* 1200-1450 </li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 1290-1480 </li>
<li>Georgetown University (DC) 1280-1470 </li>
<li>University of Virginia* 1230-1430 </li>
<li>Univ. of California – Los Angeles* 1180-1410 </li>
<li>University of Michigan – Ann Arbor* 26-30</li>
</ol>

<p>what about the LACs?</p>

<p>A Selectivity Rank
B Overall Rank
C Name of School
D SAT 25-75
E % of students in top 10%</p>

<p>A B ......................C.......................D.........E </p>

<p>.1 18. Harvey Mudd College (CA) 1380-1560 93%
.2 .2. Amherst College (MA) 1360-1550 87%
.2 .3. Swarthmore College (PA) 1350-1530 89%
.2 .6. Pomona College (CA) 1370-1530 86%
.5 .1. Williams College (MA) 1330-1520 85%
.6 10. Claremont McKenna College (CA) 1310-1490 83%
.7 14. Washington and Lee University (VA) 1310-1450 86%
.8 .6. Bowdoin College (ME) 1290-1460 82%
.8 .8. Middlebury College (VT) 1380-1500 77%
10 .8. Haverford College (PA) 1280-1460 82%
11 .5. Carleton College (MN) 1300-1480 73%
12 .4. Wellesley College (MA) 1280-1460 75%
13 10. Davidson College (NC) 1270-1440 71%
13 12. Wesleyan University (CT) 1310-1490 66%5
13 15. Colgate University (NY) 1270-1430 73%
13 27. Barnard College (NY) 1270-1430 72%
17 13. Vassar College (NY) 1310-1460 68%
18 15. Grinnell College (IA) 1290-1490 67%
18 15. Hamilton College (NY) 1260-1420 68%
18 20. Colby College (ME) 1280-1430 66%
18 23. Oberlin College (OH) 1250-1440 68%
18 25. Macalester College (MN) 1260-1450 70%
23 21. Bates College (ME) 1270-1420 65%
24 27. Bucknell University (PA) 1230-1380 64%
25 21. Bryn Mawr College (PA) 1220-1410 66%
25 39. Bard College (NY) 1240-1440 64%</p>

<p>merci xiggi</p>