<p>The list MAY be of SOME use in judging the relative difficulty of acceptance to SOME programs, especially for those new to the complex world of college MT. The top half of the list is composed primarily of schools marked as “highly selective” in the “Big List of MT Schools” thread (the “+” schools) and the bottom half are mostly non-plus-sign schools. However, the data may be biased for just that reason.</p>
<p>One fairly obvious bias inherent in the data is the schools with summer programs (i.e, Oklahoma City University) and/or an unusually active set of parents, tend to generate more CC traffic, which may not be directly indicative of the relative difficulty of acceptance.</p>
<p>Reading the “Rejections” thread also seems to correlate with this list to a large extent, i.e., it is not uncommon for individuals to get zero acceptances from the schools in the top half of the list. I would only look at the data on a broad-brush basis and be leery of any comparisons without a high degree of variance.</p>
<p>Since there are so few sources to review that provide any sort of rankings or acceptance rates for MT schools that are of any substantial and objective value, it can be hard to figure out what you are going to be up against in this process, especially when you are just starting out on this journey (like my D).</p>
<p>I certainly would not base any judgement of the quality of a program on this data.</p>