<p>“Pointedly put, if the kid is considering a top LAC and finds out he or she needs to be in the 33 percent of the class to reasonably be considered for a Fulbright, then their odds (with no other data) are one in three of making that happen.”</p>
<p>It’s that “other data” that cannot in practice be ignored. Like, how strong a student are we talking about ? Personally, I find all these discussions trying to quantify the ‘value’ of a selective LAC based on performance metrics rather useless, since we know that the student bodys are different.</p>