What does "selectivity" actually measure that is of value to a student?
Why do I have the feeling somebody chose this metric cause they just needed more stuff to rank by?
You could make a useful-to-students guide to colleges. But that takes a lot of reporting. Because many of the things students want to know are subjective and can't be well captured in numbers. And you have to do it, yourself, over and over.
An editorial decision that has had broad-ranging effects on how kids feel about themselves, how schools treat them, what schools feel pressured to spend $ on (and raise tuition for) ...
It was not a bad school. It was a school that scored poorly on a ranking system.