LACS that are pretty easy to get into full pay?

[Anonymous]

I’m talking low scores (what would typically therefore be test optional) and good grades, As and Bs, with mild rigor, like a few APs.

The very top LACS won’t have time for this but it seems many others would- for full pay applicants.

[Anonymous]

Elon (not technically a LAC) has a 90% acceptance rate for ED. A friend of DC's applied and they called him a couple weeks later with an acceptance almost begging him to come.

[Anonymous]

Dickinson
Muhlenberg
Gettysburg

[Anonymous]

Could depend on which APs and scores if the student sat for the tests, but I would think you could look at Conn College and College of Wooster. These schools are relatively selective but applicants need not be the type of kid often discussed on this board we’re all supposed to believe is average (1500+, 10+ APs, Chancellor of the Exchequer, etc.). Full pay, even at schools with large endowments is a positive if not outcome determinative factor. And these schools don’t have large endowments. Even schools that hold themselves out as need blind often pivot to need aware at some point in the process, be that evaluating spring admits or taking kids off the waitlist.

[Anonymous]

My sense of my own kid’s experience and the experience of friends is that as you make your way down the list of LACs, maybe around 20-25, the standards start to collapse for full pay students. Still pretty hard to get in if you require aid - which in most cases involves nearly a full scholarship- so there is always going to be a lot of demand for that. Who doesn’t want a free education? Bucknell for example- fine school - but my feedback is that not such great students got in from DS school - like 1250 on SAT type kids (who didn’t submit scores) and maybe they take APES or something like that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Could depend on which APs and scores if the student sat for the tests, but I would think you could look at Conn College and College of Wooster. These schools are relatively selective but applicants need not be the type of kid often discussed on this board we’re all supposed to believe is average (1500+, 10+ APs, Chancellor of the Exchequer, etc.). Full pay, even at schools with large endowments is a positive if not outcome determinative factor. And these schools don’t have large endowments. Even schools that hold themselves out as need blind often pivot to need aware at some point in the process, be that evaluating spring admits or taking kids off the waitlist.

We looked at these (wasn’t TO, applied with scores in low 1400s but grades/rigor seemed similar). I liked both. DC thought Conn had a bit too east coast/prep school kid vibe so didn’t apply. The offer from Wooster was great, and we were pleasantly surprised by the campus and opportunities. As many have said, their supports were great.

Other options: Skidmore (might be a reach), Union, Denison, St Olaf, Muhlenberg, Hobart, St Lawrence, maybe Kenyon as a reach, Beloit might make a nice safety. If you’re open to west coast maybe Lewis and Clark, Occidental, Puget Sound.

[Anonymous]

Colby literally begs on its knees for these students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Colby literally begs on its knees for these students.

Funny - when we visited - couldn’t even get a seat at the info session. Didn’t feel like we were being begged! Beautiful campus

[Anonymous]

The SLAC that are more regional - think Sewanee, Rhodes, Franklin and Marshall, Clark, Denison, Dickinson, Ithaca, Clark level schools. Maybe conn college or trinity if ED.

[Anonymous]

I agree about Muhlenberg and Wooster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could depend on which APs and scores if the student sat for the tests, but I would think you could look at Conn College and College of Wooster. These schools are relatively selective but applicants need not be the type of kid often discussed on this board we’re all supposed to believe is average (1500+, 10+ APs, Chancellor of the Exchequer, etc.). Full pay, even at schools with large endowments is a positive if not outcome determinative factor. And these schools don’t have large endowments. Even schools that hold themselves out as need blind often pivot to need aware at some point in the process, be that evaluating spring admits or taking kids off the waitlist.

We looked at these (wasn’t TO, applied with scores in low 1400s but grades/rigor seemed similar). I liked both. DC thought Conn had a bit too east coast/prep school kid vibe so didn’t apply. The offer from Wooster was great, and we were pleasantly surprised by the campus and opportunities. As many have said, their supports were great.

Other options: Skidmore (might be a reach), Union, Denison, St Olaf, Muhlenberg, Hobart, St Lawrence, maybe Kenyon as a reach, Beloit might make a nice safety. If you’re open to west coast maybe Lewis and Clark, Occidental, Puget Sound.

Avoid. Oxy and Pomona were both sued by DOJ, US Dept of Ed and the Brandeis Center in March for failure to protect the civil rights of its Jewish students. Read the FB page "Occidental Parents Against Anti-Semitism". Ten Jewish students have left or transferred due to fear. Oxy settled the case with stiff sanctions last week. Pomona still has not so the ACLU announced in November it is going after it. https://www.adl.org/resources/press-release/adl-and-brandeis-center-settle-title-vi-complaint-after-occidental-college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could depend on which APs and scores if the student sat for the tests, but I would think you could look at Conn College and College of Wooster. These schools are relatively selective but applicants need not be the type of kid often discussed on this board we’re all supposed to believe is average (1500+, 10+ APs, Chancellor of the Exchequer, etc.). Full pay, even at schools with large endowments is a positive if not outcome determinative factor. And these schools don’t have large endowments. Even schools that hold themselves out as need blind often pivot to need aware at some point in the process, be that evaluating spring admits or taking kids off the waitlist.

We looked at these (wasn’t TO, applied with scores in low 1400s but grades/rigor seemed similar). I liked both. DC thought Conn had a bit too east coast/prep school kid vibe so didn’t apply. The offer from Wooster was great, and we were pleasantly surprised by the campus and opportunities. As many have said, their supports were great.

Other options: Skidmore (might be a reach), Union, Denison, St Olaf, Muhlenberg, Hobart, St Lawrence, maybe Kenyon as a reach, Beloit might make a nice safety. If you’re open to west coast maybe Lewis and Clark, Occidental, Puget Sound.

Avoid. Oxy and Pomona were both sued by DOJ, US Dept of Ed and the Brandeis Center in March for failure to protect the civil rights of its Jewish students. Read the FB page "Occidental Parents Against Anti-Semitism". Ten Jewish students have left or transferred due to fear. Oxy settled the case with stiff sanctions last week. Pomona still has not so the ACLU announced in November it is going after it. https://www.adl.org/resources/press-release/adl-and-brandeis-center-settle-title-vi-complaint-after-occidental-college.

When are you going to shut up about this? Their discipline wasn’t even “stiff,” it was to accept some pro-Israel definition in their student code. This is beyond a non-issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Colby literally begs on its knees for these students.

Funny - when we visited - couldn’t even get a seat at the info session. Didn’t feel like we were being begged! Beautiful campus

Okay? You could’ve gone the next day and had a private tour. That’s just up to chance. No one said they get no applicants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Colby literally begs on its knees for these students.

Funny - when we visited - couldn’t even get a seat at the info session. Didn’t feel like we were being begged! Beautiful campus

Okay? You could’ve gone the next day and had a private tour. That’s just up to chance. No one said they get no applicants.

But do you honestly think you can get into Colby with meh academics and no sport if full pay?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could depend on which APs and scores if the student sat for the tests, but I would think you could look at Conn College and College of Wooster. These schools are relatively selective but applicants need not be the type of kid often discussed on this board we’re all supposed to believe is average (1500+, 10+ APs, Chancellor of the Exchequer, etc.). Full pay, even at schools with large endowments is a positive if not outcome determinative factor. And these schools don’t have large endowments. Even schools that hold themselves out as need blind often pivot to need aware at some point in the process, be that evaluating spring admits or taking kids off the waitlist.

We looked at these (wasn’t TO, applied with scores in low 1400s but grades/rigor seemed similar). I liked both. DC thought Conn had a bit too east coast/prep school kid vibe so didn’t apply. The offer from Wooster was great, and we were pleasantly surprised by the campus and opportunities. As many have said, their supports were great.

Other options: Skidmore (might be a reach), Union, Denison, St Olaf, Muhlenberg, Hobart, St Lawrence, maybe Kenyon as a reach, Beloit might make a nice safety. If you’re open to west coast maybe Lewis and Clark, Occidental, Puget Sound.

Avoid. Oxy and Pomona were both sued by DOJ, US Dept of Ed and the Brandeis Center in March for failure to protect the civil rights of its Jewish students. Read the FB page "Occidental Parents Against Anti-Semitism". Ten Jewish students have left or transferred due to fear. Oxy settled the case with stiff sanctions last week. Pomona still has not so the ACLU announced in November it is going after it. https://www.adl.org/resources/press-release/adl-and-brandeis-center-settle-title-vi-complaint-after-occidental-college.

When are you going to shut up about this? Their discipline wasn’t even “stiff,” it was to accept some pro-Israel definition in their student code. This is beyond a non-issue.

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