For the class of 2017, the acceptance rate was 33%, with 53% of those accepted ranking in the top 10% of their high school classes.
New for 2019, acceptance rate (1.25percentt in last year's ranking) has been completely removed from the ranking calculations to make room for the new social mobility indicators.
Selectivity, as measured by an institution's acceptance rate, influences 1.5percentt of the ranking.
With their high test scores, 100% college acceptance rate, and well-publicized #1 ranking comes a frequently asked question: Why are these students so smart?
The lower the acceptance rate, the higher the school's ranking.
In 1996, students who were ranked under a traditional system at Ridgefield High School in Connecticut had an acceptance rate of 24percentt at the most competitive colleges; the next year, without ranking, 38percentt were accepted.
Risk.net's ranking is based on eight metrics, ranging from acceptance rate, job offers, and salaries to faculty research and faculty-student ratio.
And a lower acceptance rate is one of the key indicators in deciding ranks.
A college's acceptance rate, or the proportion of applicants it admits, counts towards its rank, and the more selective the college is, the better.
TFE focuses 55% of its ranking on the quality of the class (students' GREs, GPAs, and the acceptance rate) and 40% on post-degree outcomes.
At Millburn, the acceptance rate at top colleges jumped from 25percentt in 1997 to 43percentt in 1998, when the school dropped ranking.
