How do you think about acceptance rate?

merc81
Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:55:19 +0000

NiceUnparticularMan:

Of course my comparison there is to St Olaf–which again I identified using the US News peer reputation survey results (if you are curious, in that version St Olaf got a 3.6, Connecticut College a 3.5, which is not in my view a significant difference, whereas Middlebury and Carleton both got 4.3, which I do think is a significant difference).

Peer assessment would seem to represent a recursive method for evaluation, however. If any school were to sustain a substantial change in acceptance rate, its PA score would adjust to a degree consistent with the extent of this recursion; and current PA scores may already reflect acceptance rates.