“Admission rates alone cannot be used to determine your chance of admission. A college with a high admission rate out of a strong applicant pool may be harder to get admitted to than a college with a low admission rate out of a weak applicant pool.”
For example, if college A has two applicants with 4.0 and 3.9 GPAs and admits only the 4.0 GPA applicant for a 50% admission rate, while college B has ten applicants, one of whom has a 3.0 GPA and nine of whom have 2.5 GPAs, and admits the 3.0 GPA applicant for a 10% admission rate, which college do you think is harder to get admitted to?”
This is one of the best posts I’ve ever read in CC. It is so important when looking at stats to have context.
To make snap judgments on quality, prestige or the like based on a number. Especially with application inflation with common apps and Hail Mary applications for vanity purposes. It abounds on CC.
Really smart post and observation UCB.