interestingguy

^ The US News selectivity rankings are notoriously unreliable and problemmatic. 40% of the selectivity index is based upon the percentage of hs students who graduated in the top 10% of their hs class, without taking into account any differentiation between high schools.

Besides, are you sure you want to cite US News as your source? According to their college rankings, Duke is closer to Vanderbilt than it is to HYP.

interestingguy

Columbia ~10%
Brown ~11%
Dartmouth ~12%
Penn ~17%
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Duke ~17%
Vanderbilt ~19%

interestingguy

Penn ~65%
Columbia ~60%
Brown ~55%
Dartmouth ~50%
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Duke ~40%
Vanderbilt ~40%

Don_Quixote

Please ignore interestingguy everybody. He's derailing threads all over the place with his opinions on schools he has no experience with. Interestingguy's post history