<p>A chronic limitation of such listings is their failure to break out the statistics for the separate colleges of multi-college universities individually ,though these admissions pools are primarily evaluated separately by the specific college.</p>
<p>An applicant to Carnegie Mellon’s theater department does not have the same odds of admission as an applicant to its Arts & Sciences College. An applicant to Penn’s Nursing program does not have the same admissions odds as an applicant to Wharton. etc. The aggregated numbers may be virtually meaningless in informing the individual applicant who is applying to just a particular one of the university’s diverse colleges. That applicant will be part of that one college’s applicant pool, and not some fictionalized aggregated pool which is not used in practice, as a primary matter at least.</p>