[NovemberWhiskey]

Look, you're the one that set the bar at "exclusionary" - by the numbers, these are all highly exclusionary institutions (more than three quarters of people won't get it) - we're just arguing over the fine details at this point.

If Harvard reduced financial aid, meaning that more people were dissuaded from applying, and that brought the numbers up to the same - would you be happy?

Looking at acceptance rate to define what is good or bad is just weird.

[laidoffamazon]

Elite universities themselves target an acceptance rate when targeting advertising and outreach to prospective students. It's an extremely important metric for even selling their exclusivity. It's why BU went from 50% accept rate to ~17% in ~7 years.