<p>what about it doesn’t make sense? If 60% of admitted students chose to enroll elsewhere, obviously many students had multiple choices and multiple options to choose from. I agree that there is a certain element of self-selectivity when deciding on engineering over CAS (where one can study plenty of math centric items), but not nearly as much as Hotel, AAP, ILR, etc. where the students who enroll are not only certain that it’s the major they want but it’s the individual college and then university they want (further reflected by the yield). There are few ‘backup’ options, and this caters to the definition of self-selectivity that I learned in my time of admissions. The unfortunate thing is a strong architecture portfolio or growing up with the name Hilton can’t be quantified, so it can’t be used the way others are in their definition of self-selective. You can, of course, define it as you wish.</p>