If you’re applying to BYU-Hawaii, should Dartmouth be your safety school?<\/p>\n
The last time I looked at the acceptance rate for BYU, it was around 70%, about what you would expect for a school with a highly self-selecting applicant pool. But as I look at the list of schools with the lowest acceptance rates<\/a> in the US News 2007 college rankings, BYU-Hawaii comes in at #6, right between Princeton and Stanford. What’s going on? I can understand that a respectable academic ranking (#4 among comprehensive bachelor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s institutions in the West<\/a>), very modest tuition ($3,040), and a highly desirable location would make BYU-H attractive to a lot of college applicants, but the 89% rejection rate is still surprising. Do the applicants not self-select to the same degree as BYU applicants? Aren’t the other Hawaiian schools also attractive? I wonder if the low acceptance rate is a recent development, or if it’s had an effect on the student body. (Does BYU-H now only accept Ivy League-caliber surfers, or only future mission presidents?) Can someone explain the dynamics of BYU-H applicants?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you’re applying to BYU-Hawaii, should Dartmouth be your safety school?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}