<p>@simba9 (and @rjkofnovi, since you’ll enjoy this):</p>
<p>Actually, UNC has a 29% admit rate (<a href=“Our Newest Class - Undergraduate Admissions”>http://admissions.unc.edu/apply/class-profile/</a>) and even that is rather misleading. By NC law, UNC’s freshman class has to be at least 85% NC residents. Thus NC residents enjoy a 53% admit rate while OOS applicants have only an 18% admit rate. Yet NC residents, who didn’t have to pass all that high of a hurdle to get in to UNC, make up the vast majority of the student body there. So just how impressive is that student body on average?</p>
<p>Also, even with its higher admit rate, UMich turns out a higher percentage of high-achieving alums than either UNC or USC, so what does that tell you about the quality of the education at UMich vs. UNC or USC?</p>
<p>This is also why I believe more in metrics that rank a school by alumni achievements rather than metrics like admit rates that can be gamed and don’t actually reflect any positive impact that a school may have on its students.</p>