Cornell vs. Duke - which is more selective?

monydad
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:45:32 +0000

"Trinity itself has a lower acceptance rate than 16%. "

I don’t know what it’s acceptance rate is actually, Duke published those statistics before it turned to the waitlist. which it then utilized extensively.

“I said that Brown, Penn and Duke tend to be more holistic in their evaluations than Cornell.”

Yes, and I said"??" What I meant by ?? is, IMO this (unsupportable) claim of material differences in this respect seem dubious to me, for institutions where admissions rates and entering stats are nearly identical, for identical programs of study, where all the schools are practicing holistic admissions in what I suspect is a quite similar way. Brown is a separate case. Your claim seems more plausible to me wth respect to the specialty colleges, but even there, demonstrated affinity for their subject areas consititutes a “hook” of its own, to an extent.