<p>TheStonedPandas, I can see that you are likely to bring up the quality of the applicant pool and cite University of Chicago as a university with a high admissions rate but very selective admissions in a follow up to your one-liner. However, before you do so, it needs to be realised that ultimately, admissions rates do give an excellent indicator to the selectivty of an institution. Additionally, in this case Wharton is being compared with SAS at Penn, both of which contain extremely qualified applicant pools. Therefore, the roughly 1% difference in acceptance rates coupled with the slightly stronger applicant pool of Wharton does not warrant a comment such as “MUCCCHHH Harder.”</p>
<p>It is misleading to present Wharton admission as being far more difficult than admission to SAS at Penn.</p>