That's interesting. Maybe this is the point, but observe that they are already leveraging the 'University of Pennsylvania' selection magic. Just because those s

That's interesting. Maybe this is the point, but observe that they are already leveraging the 'University of Pennsylvania' selection magic. Just because those students chose Penn State, for financial reasons or because they like the Nittany Lions, doesn't matter, the fact that they got into U of Penn means they are going to be more successful. If I were running admissions at a selective but middle tier College, I think I would immediately start training an ML model on the publicly available dataset but also historical datasets. Pretty soon I would be able to predict student future success with all kinds of interesting outliers that go beyond grades and SAT scores. I might find, for example, that inner city kids that create websites when they are 12 are extremely successful, or that kids who win the spelling bee when they are 9 go on to win at life. Who knows?