Barnard or Columbia

privatebanker
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 22:12:01 +0000

I know admission rates are somehow sacred on CC. But it’s only partly true and definitely not the weight people give it here

A 10 percent admissions rate is not three times easier than 30 percent admissions. It all depends. I am tilting at windmills here. I will try one more time to make the point if 9 Nobel laureates are applying for three spots it’s a 33 percent acceptance rate. If 20 people with 11 less qualified than the original 9 throw their hat in the ring for the same three spots it’s now 15 percent acceptance rate. But the 17 who don’t get in did not have their odds improve at all. Zero. Some schools are so popular and well known they get way more applications. Yet the fight is still only among the top quartile.

Yes there are outliers but that is rare.

Some schools like Barnard self select a lot less Hail Mary applications and apply so I can say I did than Columbia.

The top students at each are still fighting it out. THe stats of the incoming class are probative but raw admissions percentages are way over rated.

And sometimes his admissions rate fallacy make students make bad decisions based on prestige aligned with that number. Georgetown has a 16 percent admit rate. They have their own app they mail decisions. They are a Jesuit school etc keep raw numbers down but has nothing to do with selectivity at the top. Ok. I’m done now. (: