<p>I think it's wrong to look at "selectivity" on the basis of numbers when you're talking about a niche school like Wabash. I'd put Berea and St John's in the same category (but for different reasons). </p>
<p>Face it, these places are sufficiently unique that they don't get a a big surplus of applicants. They don't gets lots of applicants who use them as safeties, nor many people who apply just to see if they can get in. They've got a self-selected applicant pool. </p>
<p>For these schools, what is way more important if you want to see how hard it may be for you to get in, and whether it's a good academic fit for you, are their "quality" statistics, such as the GPA and SAT. But (and I'm glad this has already come up in this thread) it's also important to consider the other things that are important to the school, because if they may have an ability to see beyond test scores/GPA for other indicators of potential. In fact, some of these "niche" schools have a mission to do so.</p>