<p>Re: cross admit rate.</p>
<p>Is this hypothetical or actual? If this is hypothetical, it’s just an attitude survey. All behavioral scientists know that there is a huge gap between attitude and action.</p>
<p>if this is real data, I don’t understand how one could neatly come up with Chicago vs. Harvard as in 15 % vs. 85 %. These number will ONLY hold if these students were accepted to ONLY Chicago and Harvard, and nowhere else. In reality, these kids are accepted to multiple schools, and the actual distribution should be more like 15% Chicago, X % Harvard, and Y % some other school. I seriously wonder how could this web site (linked below) confidently say this cross admit % (always totals 100% for two school) in light of the consideration I just explained (meaning, a third school not mentioned in the dyad was chosen).</p>
<p>According to the numbers cited below (and on the web site), Chicago vs. Rice means 45% vs. 55% which gives the impression that Chicago loses out to Rice. In reality, it may be Chicago 45%, Rice 25% and other 30%, which conveys a very different picture, that is, U Chicago wins over Rice handily.</p>
<p>Yet another example of how one could paint a very misleading picture by selectively quoting statistics.</p>