Low acceptance rates are a key metric to marketing, and schools try very hard to drive the denominator up. I have a highschooler and I see how students fixate

Low acceptance rates are a key metric to marketing, and schools try very hard to drive the denominator up. I have a highschooler and I see how students fixate on this number. So while acceptance rates don't say anything about the quality of the school they are very meaningful to the school's marketing machine.