Brown v. Columbia

NYU2013
Sat, 09 Jun 2012 10:50:32 +0000

Acceptance rate is NOT equatable to selectivity. Citing an acceptance rate and saying school A is more selective than school B because school A’s acceptance rate is lower is an argument from correlation and assumes, intrinsically, that acceptance rate directly represents selectivity. It does not. Selectivity of a school has to do with A LOT of things, and not just acceptance rates.

So, to everyone who claimed “Columbia has a lower acceptance rate and is therefore more selective”, your argument is not valid; and your statements merely go to show that you misunderstand what selectivity actually is.

Again, I reiterate, Columbia and Brown are equally selective.