Princeton Review Academic Rating

Colleges & Universities Wesleyan University
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<p>70?</p>

<p>Vassar is in the super-high 90’s, for a comparison.</p>

<p>This seems shockingly low for such a selective school.</p>

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<p>it isn’t accurate… you must read deep into the website… view this: <a href=“http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/generalinfomore.asp?listing=1023852&ltid=1[/url]”>http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/generalinfomore.asp?listing=1023852&ltid=1&lt;/a&gt;
and you see Wes didn’t give enough info, hence a 60* admissions selectivity rating. then go to <a href=“http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/articles/find/ratings.asp#academic[/url]”>http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/articles/find/ratings.asp#academic&lt;/a&gt; and read that “Please note that if a school has an Academic Rating of 60<em>, it means that the school did not report to us a sufficient number of the statistics that go into the rating by our deadline. Please also note that a school with an Admissions Selectivity Rating of 60</em> will have an Academic Rating that is lower than it should be, since the Admissions Selectivity Rating is a factor in the calculation that produces the Academic Rating.” so the 70 isn’t a reflection of Wes, rather it is a reflection of not enough data… I assure you, Wes would be in the upper 90’s with sufficient data</p>

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<p>Ah, thanks; I missed that sentence.</p>

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<p>Another point: the PR academic ratings tend to jump around nonsensically. My school went from 86 to 97 this year. Don’t put a lot of credit in PR’s rating numbers.</p>