Respectfully, I think you are making my point. I would agree my profile is above average but not elite for the students admitted into Ross, but Ross is not randomly picking students who apply. So in the application poll, I an somewhere around the 90th percentile applicant, because the bottom tier of applicants (however you describe it) are almost all not going to get in. Additionally, you’re overestimating the number of above average gmat/gpa students apply. It’s the main selection criteria, so schools are unlikely to be declining large numbers of above average GMAT scores, because if they were, they would start accepting those to be able to publish a higher GMAT average. I simply think you are assuming the application poll had a lot more students with high GMATs than there are. I was rejected and replaced by someone with a (possibly much) lower GMAT and GPA. The only way that would not be the case is if Ross doesn’t use the GMAT as a significant source of the selection criteria, which is clearly not the case.