Let's quibble over semantics: what do we really mean by "highly selective" (Ex: Pitzer v Williams)?

Sue22
Fri, 22 Apr 2016 20:07:44 +0000

@Corinthian,
Let’s make the differences more dramatic for the sake of clarifying the argument. School A has 10,000 applicants and an admissions rate of 10%. School B has 2,000 applicants and an admissions rate of 50%. However, the top 10% of applicants to School A have an average GPA of 3.0 and an ACT of 20. These stats would put those applicants in the bottom 10% of applicants to School B.

It seems you would consider School A more selective. I would argue that School B is more selective because a student who would be admitted to School A would be rejected by School B.