Middlebury ED filled most of class?

[Anonymous]

Their release states, “Applicants for the Class of 2027 include 11,971 regular decision candidates and 1,326 who applied under the first and second rounds of the early decision program. Early decision applications increased by about 28 percent over last year’s 1,039 applications, while regular decision applications saw a slight increase over last year’s 11,913. A total of 516 students were accepted through the early decision programs including the first cohort of QuestBridge Scholars.

The overall class will include 630 students for fall enrollment and 105 who will start in February 2024.”

So 516 of a class of 630 to 735 were admitted through ED? Am I reading this correctly? I’m not sure how many of the ED applicants make up February starters. Either way. That’s a huge percentage.

[Anonymous]

ED is binding, so if a college can fill its class in the first few rounds, they'll do it.

[Anonymous]

Wow. That's ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ED is binding, so if a college can fill its class in the first few rounds, they'll do it.

We’re a $100k-200k income family and not sure we can afford. I’m feeling boxed out. Doesn’t seem like much hope in applying RD. Boo. I appreciate they include Questbridge but I wonder how much economic diversity besides that group would there be on campus. Is everyone super wealthy? Any current families there?

[Anonymous]

It's like K-12 private schools, PP. A majority are quite wealthy, and a handful are low-income on financial aid. The middle class is entirely squeezed out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ED is binding, so if a college can fill its class in the first few rounds, they'll do it.

We’re a $100k-200k income family and not sure we can afford. I’m feeling boxed out. Doesn’t seem like much hope in applying RD. Boo. I appreciate they include Questbridge but I wonder how much economic diversity besides that group would there be on campus. Is everyone super wealthy? Any current families there?

It's a numbers game, especially the last two years. Most colleges have received record numbers of applications, so if you have a favorite that you are 100% sure you want to attend, ED is the way to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ED is binding, so if a college can fill its class in the first few rounds, they'll do it.

We’re a $100k-200k income family and not sure we can afford. I’m feeling boxed out. Doesn’t seem like much hope in applying RD. Boo. I appreciate they include Questbridge but I wonder how much economic diversity besides that group would there be on campus. Is everyone super wealthy? Any current families there?

It's a numbers game, especially the last two years. Most colleges have received record numbers of applications, so if you have a favorite that you are 100% sure you want to attend, ED is the way to go.

But only if you can afford it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ED is binding, so if a college can fill its class in the first few rounds, they'll do it.

We’re a $100k-200k income family and not sure we can afford. I’m feeling boxed out. Doesn’t seem like much hope in applying RD. Boo. I appreciate they include Questbridge but I wonder how much economic diversity besides that group would there be on campus. Is everyone super wealthy? Any current families there?

It's a numbers game, especially the last two years. Most colleges have received record numbers of applications, so if you have a favorite that you are 100% sure you want to attend, ED is the way to go.

Says the rich person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's like K-12 private schools, PP. A majority are quite wealthy, and a handful are low-income on financial aid. The middle class is entirely squeezed out.

That might not be a great social fit for my kid anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's like K-12 private schools, PP. A majority are quite wealthy, and a handful are low-income on financial aid. The middle class is entirely squeezed out.

That might not be a great social fit for my kid anyway.

+100 My DS wants to go to a SLAC but not one filled with only rich kids. They don't seem to exist as all the SLACs are so expensive.

[Anonymous]

You’d think with Middlebury’s sizeable endowment, they’d be able to do better in terms of economic diversity.

[Anonymous]

Worse than Tulane.

[Anonymous]

So counting January admits, the admission rate for RD will be 1.8%. At that point, why even do an RD round?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So counting January admits, the admission rate for RD will be 1.8%. At that point, why even do an RD round?

No because they don’t have a 100% yield. They will need to admit about 600 to get their remaining 200. Or maybe even more since it sounds like most of them will be Feb admits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So counting January admits, the admission rate for RD will be 1.8%. At that point, why even do an RD round?

No because they don’t have a 100% yield. They will need to admit about 600 to get their remaining 200. Or maybe even more since it sounds like most of them will be Feb admits.

Some of their ED applicants are Feb start. Though I don’t know if they counted them as ED admits for Feb starts since it’s no longer binding. They need full pays usually for spring starts so I’m guessing many of their Febs applied ED (full pay, Midd their first choice reach).