I was a bit surprised to see that College Board is listing SUNY New Paltz as “very selective” (as opposed to Virginia Tech, Syracuse and Rutgers, which are “somewhat selective”.) I always thought of New Paltz as a school for ordinary mortals (not that there’s anything wrong with that) – essentially a state directional in a state with decent schools. Is this listing the result of College Board using an algorithm, and crediting a school with high selectivity on the basis of admission percentages, without regard to the overall competitiveness and documented academic caliber of the incoming classes? Any comments?
I think it is based on % admitted
http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=100
http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=130
Compared to Syracuse, New Paltz has slightly lower admission and yield rates, but roughly similar high school stats for frosh, except for a lower SAT math range. So it does seem odd to put New Paltz in a higher selectivity bucket than Syracuse.
The best info on a school is always from the common data set
https://www.newpaltz.edu/media/institutional-research/CDS_2016-2017.pdf
According to this, approx 14,000 applied and 6,000 were accepted (for a 42% acceptance rate), but the yield was 18%–about 725
Look at this article. It discusses what College Board uses for their selectivity criteria:
“It appears that the College Board uses only one measure of selectivity. They don’t look at the average GPA or test scores of accepted students. They only look at what percentage of students a college rejects. So, even if a college is accepting students who are statistically weak (low GPA and low test scores), as long as they are rejecting even more they will be ranked as very selective.”
http://homeschoolsuccess.com/making-sense-of-college-selectivity/
Other than credit remediation (for $200), the only online class our school offers is Health ($425). It started June 1st and the final must be taken by July 18th. Considering this is only a semester course, it’s significantly more time for completion than the number of days OP’s child has for Latin.