<p>I think its mostly about numbers and money. I know this is the case with graduate school because those profiles don’t exists for most schools. Even if you ask them directly for information on who applies and who they admit they will claim they “don’t keep track” of that information, even if it isn’t true. They don’t want potential applicants to know the real standards they have for admissions because if they did, tons of kids wouldn’t apply at all because they’d know they don’t have a chance. The school wants tons of applicants because then they can drive their acceptance rate down and their rating up. They also want the application fee, thats just the way it works. For grad school its even more frustrating because really all you have to go on is the national rankings, one of my professors told me its basically a crap shoot.</p>