1. Pomona- 6.8%
2. Swarthmore- 6.9% 3. Colby- 7% (doesn't list the exact percent, so it could be 1, 2, or 3) 4. Barnard- 8% 5. Bowdoin- 8.02% 6. Grinnell- 9.5% 7. Williams- 9.8% 8. Amherst- 10.0% 9. Claremont McKenna- 11% 10. Middlebury- 11.6% 11. Hamilton- 11.8% 12. Haverford- 12.9% 13. Bates- 13% (again, no exact percent listed) 14. Harvey Mudd- 13.1% 15. Wellesley- 13.9% 16. Davidson- 14.5% Notable outliers- Carleton (21.7%) but ranked in the top 10; Denison and Pitzer (both 17%) but ranked outside the top 30 |
W&L should be noted, especially if Denison and Carleton are listed. It's probably somewhere in between acceptance rate wise, but a better / historically consistent "ranking" than both.
Wesleyan and Vassar too. |
Didn’t Colby drop many ranks? Now it’s back up? What’s going on? |
It's acceptance rate. Not a ranking. |
How many of the top 16 LACs have two rounds of ED ? Creates an artificially low acceptance rate. |
Arbitrary cutoff at 14.5% or #16. Anything below 20% is it. That "expands" to how many SLACS? |
You do realize that Johns Hopkins, Boston University, NYU, Tufts, Vanderbilt and WashU also have ED2? Not sure your theory holds any water. |
W&L was at #25 (in 1988, when it joined the list), rose to #8 in 1998, and is now at #11. Its average rank: 15. Carleton's lowest rank was #13 in 1993 and it's now #9. Its average rank: 8. Data from http://andyreiter.com/datasets/ |
Just checked: Appears to be either 12 or 13 of the top 16 LACs listed in the first post offer ED 2. (Amherst, Barnard, & Williams do not according to a quick google search.) |
I really don’t understand the Colby thing. I know three kids there now who didn’t get into schools with higher acceptance rates (Middlebury, BC and Brown). But maybe the key is that the kids I know are all full pay? |
Colby is need-blind for both international and domestic students. That's one of the reasons that it's so hard to get into. |
+100 Acceptance rate (low) could mean they have good marketing that encourages lots of unqualified applications. Doesn’t mean much. |
This is incorrect on both accounts. It is, per its own website, need aware for all students. That may make it more difficult for a high need student to be admitted and easier for a low need one. |
They do meet full need of admitted students, which is great, but I think a lot of people conflate that with being need blind. |
And there is no fee to apply. I am not sure, whether Colby is need blind. |