The Knowles foundation values advanced scientific training in its applicants, but it's only one of several factors considered by the committee that evaluates the applications.
The four-year, full-time undergraduate program maintains a balance between professional majors and those in the arts and sciences, and is selective, admitting few transfer students and 7.7% of its applicants in the 2013 2014 application season.
It accepted about 27percentt of its applicants last year -- down from 34percentt -- and 52percentt of those accepted enrolled.
In fact, it admits about half of all its applicants, the highest rate in the world.
How tremendous a school must be if it accepts a mere 10percentt of its applicants!
The school is so selective that it turns away more than 90percentt of its applicants each year.
The college considers its applicants first, then finds out if those it accepts can pay, said Rabbi Herman N. Neuberger, the president.
When the University of Michigan revised its admissions process in August to conform to the Supreme Court's ruling, it hinted at a new emphasis on the class background of its applicants.
The posher the school, the more demanding its applicants.
(By comparison, Harvard admitted 6 percent of its applicants this year, and 7 percent last year).
In 2004, Chicago accepted 40 percent of its applicants, compared with 18 percent this year.
