<p>Well, from what I understand USNWR does not include these so-called ultra-selective institutions and puts them in some other listing. I suppose their definition varies a bit year to year-- I think my school was included there once awhile back but has, err, regressed. I’ll never understand why, say, Thomas Jefferson, is included.</p>
<p>I don’t actually know how good my school is (I doubt its actually 27th in the US, seeing how dumb I think I am), but some people from Beijing Normal came to visit a few weeks ago. I think we might have ~1,000 students that try to test in, haha. Oh dear, well I suppose that Stuyvesant must have an even lower acceptance rate than Harvard!</p>