Admission rates can be misleading I think, since the applicant pool can be quite different from school to school. For example, the admission rate at a top 25 school might be 30%, but keep in mind that the students who choose to apply are typically super high stat students to begin with, so it’s even harder to get into those schools than the 30% number suggests. At public universities, the admission rate might be 50%, but the applicant pool will have lots of low stat students. So I guess what I’m saying is that I can see a situation where, at a really good high school, every student who applies to Alabama would get in. I know that for my son and his friends, everyone who applied to Alabama was admitted, although not all of them received merit scholarships.