GA…you’ve been around for a while and a good and intelligent interpreter of all of these stats. I think you are probably right but…if ND was not viewed as a serious Catholic university (and perhaps not located in northern Indiana), the admit rate (a function of application numbers) would be half that. In reality, whether you are rejecting 2 or 4 candidates from an equally strong application pool for each one you accept makes little practical difference in the quality of the enrolled class - which is why ND’s class profiles match up with schools that have much lower admit rates. ND’s application pool is VERY STRONG, if smaller than peer universities.