Skinny on this year's admissions process

pb2002
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:15:10 +0000

also:

i’m unsure how differences in applicant increases in a single year signal anything other than variable popularity, unless those increases or decreases are consistent over the course of a few years. drawing conclusions solely on the basis of the increases experienced this year by some ivy league universities but not by others should similarly be avoided. i, for one, don’t think stanford is in any way less of a university relative to dartmouth, say, because its increase in applicants was a fraction of dartmouth’s.