Kolek planning to go pro
I use advanced analytics
Shouldn't you be able to predict his next post by now?
Maybe the poor guidance counselor making that list picked 50% as "highly selective" .. and yet MU still couldn't manage to make the coin flip list. So funny I forgot to laugh?
Highly selective means highly selective. Highly selective doesn’t always correlate with educational quality.
Marquette is highly selective. They are highly selective about who they market to.
Like so many other topics of discussion here, y'all have a small sample size and are in denial. Branch out and experience the other 50%. You'll be amazed what you're missing and not seeing, hey?
Speaking of how Marquette markets ...According to the email I just received, here's the latest offering for those who donate to MU:Yes, because the very first thing any Marquette fan wants people to see is WISCONSIN in large yellow type on the top of their sweatshirt.Oh, and "Marquette" isn't on it at all.I donate annually to the College of Communications, and I don't care about the incentive gifts they offer (I think I've only gotten one over all these years). But if I were the type who did care, this would be a turn-off and I'd wait to see what the next one is.
The McCormick cozies, the MU flag, and the beach towels were solid gifts This sweatshirt stinks
This looks unofficial.
Highly selective means highly selective. Highly selective doesn’t always correlate with educational quality. Handwringing over acceptance rate is just a waste of time. Many schools don’t even think about it.
Yep both mine and my younger sister's alma maters had their acceptance rates rise markedly over the last 5 years. However, if you look at the stats of the incoming classes, the caliber of student increased by all metrics, and not just slightly.
Agreed. Since Marquette is not mentioned, it looks like something I would see at a flea market.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
MU's approach on recruiting is extremely counter-intuitive, but highly efficient. As others have said, this hyper-targeting has actually strengthened the academic metrics of the incoming class, despite what on the surface appears to be an embarrassingly high acceptance rate. Despite that success, I do think the 86% figure is problematic, and discourages students on the upper end of who would typically consider Marquette from applying. They see that figure and have a visceral reaction and think WTF? That they're wrong for not looking under the hood isn't relevant. It's still a problem from a branding standpoint and exposes MU's lack of popularity.There's no doubt in my mind that the high acceptance rate figure is the main contributor to MU's lack of geographic diversity. Why fly half way across the country to attend a school that accepts almost 90% of all applicants? I'm not saying this way of thinking is correct or has any relevance to outcomes, which is what really matters, and there's no doubt MU grads hold their own with anyone, but it's also not going to disappear anytime soon. At the end of day, MU isn't going to win any awards for branding, but as long as they're meeting their enrollment goals they don't care about what they strongly believe are superficial metrics. They don't have to care because they don't operate in an area where folks seem to care about superficial metrics anywhere near as much as they do where I come from. I'm an extremely engaged alum who maintains regular contact with multiple administrators there, and have been told on no uncertain terms that while it would be nice to have more geographic diversity, it will never be a priority for them. They are who they are and that's ok.And to whoever mentioned MU looks worse than St. John's, DePaul and Seton Hall, the fact is MU is ranked significantly higher than all 3 of those other schools, despite their high acceptance rate.
I am confident that the vast majority of college applicants don't place the amount of importance on acceptance rates that you do, especially since most entities that rate colleges have downgraded or eliminated that metric.The fact remains that even with the high acceptance rate, Marquette has increased the academic caliber of the average student that actually enrolls, even as the student body becomes more diverse. Marquette could completely game the system by encouraging students to apply who have no chance of making it, but it does not.Anyone who uses acceptance rate as a significant consideration is nothing but an elitist snob, pure and simple.