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<p>When someone calls out my post, I will respond. Georgia Girl brought up an irrelevant point about the director of admissions at a random East Coast school that couldn’t be more different from USC. I know you would prefer I not point out the flaws in that reasoning, but it must be said.</p>
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<p>I’m not sure how this is relevant. It’s entirely possible for spring admits to be lower on average than fall admits, while some higher-stat students get rejected altogether. Regardless, your statement that some lower-stat students get in over higher-stat ones is useless (that’s the case at every top school…). On average, admitted students have higher stats than those rejected, as seen here:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/1112/USCFreshmanProfile2011v4.pdf[/url]”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/1112/USCFreshmanProfile2011v4.pdf</a></p>
<p>In order for the average admit stats to be higher than the average stats of applicants, higher-stat applicants must be more common in the admit pool. Notice also in that document, USC makes sure to say “Fall enrolls” or “Fall admits,” rather than include all first-year freshmen. Why does it do this, madbean? Why not include the data for all freshmen? I notice USC is also fine including spring admits in fall applicant #s; sure, no student applies for spring admissions (so technically everyone is a fall applicant), but including them in the applicants but not the admits artificially lowers the admit rate. Do you agree that this is disingenuous?</p>
<p>Honestly, in the context of other discussions, USC affiliates freely admit that spring admits are the ‘edge cases,’ the ones just above the accept cutoff. Yet when it’s suggested that USC is intentionally not including them in its stats because they’d probably bring the averages down (and raise the admit rate), some of them will fight tooth-and-nail to avoid that conclusion, even though they know it’s probably true and indirectly admit it in other contexts.</p>
<p>I notice no one is addressing my point about the admit rate. Do you agree that USC’s acceptance rate is over 20% this year? And do you think it’s okay for USC not to include in its acceptance rate those ~1,000 students it accepts each year for spring?</p>