There is no correlation between why people who get accepted to BYU actually choose to go and why people who get accepted to other universities choose to do so. They should add into the statistics how many other universities students at each school actually applied to.
What part of the word Cult are people missing here?
applied there, and then at local state colleges in their own states. People can't afford out of state tuition unless it is subsidized by the cult.
Another possibility is that BYU is unique. Not much competition out there for Mormon colleges(they only stated BYU and NOT the different campuses). If a person is accepted at Harvard they probably also applied to other Ivy League or comparable academic school.
Harvard and BYU are not ANYWHERE near the same league of school. They don't compete. I LOVE where I go to school but I am no where near deluded to believe that SDSU can ever say anything about Harvard. Silly Mormons!!!
Steven - not only does Tommy speak with Jeebus every day, they have a standing lunch appointment on Tuesdays. You know, catch up on the news, how are the kids, etc.
When I was a boy I wanted to attend the Air Force Academy. Not making it past webelo and my gradrs made that impossible. About the time I realized that I was around 14 or 15. School bored me except for history and drama and football(soccer) and our school didnt even have a team. Anyways I was reading SI there was a ball player. He got accepted at the Academy and BYU. He chose BYU lol. Made me mad
I graduated from BYU.........If I had the choice to have gone to Harvard instead of BYU I would have had good jobs, a real education that means something. All I have is a cult degree that most employers have laughed at. The article is BS:
Wouldn't it be better to find out total number of applicants sent to each school? I feel that would truly show popularity. But what do I know, I am just a BYU grad.
The statistics are fine. The reality behind them are easily understood. People who apply to Harvard are also applying to other highly acclaimed academic schools. People applying to BYU are wanting the religious experience. And there are no competing schools for that.
Example: 10 people apply to 5 academic schools - Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton and Wisconsin (sorry guys, had to throw my school into it). Those 10 get accepted to all 5 schools. Two of them go to each school. Each school therefore has a 20% rate.
Example: 10 people apply to BYU, Utah, BSU, Utah Valley, UNLV. All get accepted to all schools. Nine of them will go to BYU, because it offers the religious experience the other schools don't. BYU gets a 90% rate.
Less than an hour ago I was driving home and listening to the radio. They mentioned this survey and said what the most popular school in the US was, based on the percentage of accepted kids who actually enroll. I thought that was a rather strange way to determine which school is most popular.
But the reason I'm posting this is -
They did NOT say it was BYU.
They didn't mention BYU. They said it was the US Naval Academy. The percentage of accepted students who enroll was (I think) 85%. They said the next runner-up was the US Military Academy at West Point. At the time I thought that the reason would be that people who apply to the military academies REALLY want to go there, so it makes sense that a higher percentage would enroll if accepted. Same is true with BYU, I would imagine.
But why don't they determine popularity by asking which college received the most applications? Perhaps because a school that is considered "easier" to get into, gets zillions of apps from kids who need a "safe school" even though they hope they don't have to actually go there.
EDIT- I just googled this story to see what the deal was, the story that I heard on the radio (and was picked up by the Baltimore Sun) was for the most popular LIBERAL ARTS school. The Sun article went on to say that BYU got the highest for "national universities, which are research-oriented institutions that offer a variety of degrees."
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/26/2011 11:54AM by duffy.