<p>SAT/ACT scores only tell part of the story. Some schools are less holistic in their admissions process and select more for standardized test scores. One measure of selectivity is to see which schools win the cross-admit battles and which schools get the leftovers. By this measure, Brown/Columbia/Dartmouth/Penn and even Cornell soundly beat Northwestern:</p>
<p>[The</a> New York Times > Week in Review > Image > Collegiate Matchups: Predicting Student Choices](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/09/17/weekinreview/20060917_LEONHARDT_CHART.html]The”>The New York Times > Week in Review > Image > Collegiate Matchups: Predicting Student Choices)</p>