Convince me to go to Smith!

Bossf51
Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:23:26 +0000

Well for one thing Smith’s admission rate isn’t 20% “higher” than those schools listed. And acceptance rate doesn’t translate into being a “better” school. Smith is consistently rated higher than Barnard in most rankings(although those things are overrated too in my opinion).

For example, Wellesley’s admit rate is 34%, Smith about 45%. Scripps is 39%.

Barnard has the lowest admit rate among the “sisters,” but I attribute that more to the school’s somewhat “tangential” relationship with Columbia. Barnard was ranked 33rd among liberal arts colleges, to a 19th ranking for Smith. Scripps is ranked 26th. So if you give any credence to these rankings, your argument is flawed.

As far as the other question, check out some of the other threads which go into that kind of thing in depth.