Success Stories? How did your DC get into one of these selective LACs?
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Anonymous
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Did they apply ED1 or ED2? Were they a sports recruit? A legacy? Did they do an optional interview or video? What was their unweighted GPA? Did they have "most demanding" rigor? Did they submit SAT/ACT? Did they show a lot of demonstrated interest?
10 Most selective co-ed SLACs: Williams Amherst Swarthmore Pomona Bowdoin Claremont McKenna Harvey Mudd Middlebury Carleton Wesleyan |
Anonymous
| Score above 1550 on the SAT, submit it, and your chances skyrocket. |
Anonymous
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Accepted RD to Williams, Amherst, and Bowdoin. WL at Swarthmore.
To answer your questions: Not a recruit or legacy (Amherst doesn’t consider legacy) Did interviews at Bowdoin and Swarthmore. Unweighted 4.0, weighted 4.45 at Private school Submitted SAT 1520 (800m/720v) No demonstrated interest beyond interviews at the schools that offered them. Did not visit Williams. |
Anonymous
It would also be helpful to know whether the student was male or female. |
Anonymous
| 1220 SATs but rigorous course load at area public. 10 APs, but didn’t take (or plans to take) any AP tests. Good UW GPA of 92.9%. Offers of support from Wesleyan. Didn’t like after visiting for overnite - felt it was a weird place and extremely cliquey. Male and female athletes just hang with each other |
Anonymous
Female math major. ECs mainly STEM and community service at a school/city level. And worked all summers as a swim coach, lifeguard and swim teacher. |
Anonymous
| ED Amherst highest rigor, magnet program, 4.0, 36 ACT, NMF. Instrument scholarship and competitive club sport (not recruited). Male. Amherst doesn’t consider legacy or demonstrated interest, and doesn’t interview or do glimpse videos. |
Anonymous
This one is fiction. |
Anonymous
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This thread is helpful! Can commenters please indicate gender too?
Thx! |
Anonymous
| Daughter got into Wesleyan and Carleton with 1570 SAT, 3.95 unweighted GPA form McPS magnet. Activities were mostly music and a part-time job but nothing especially spectacular. |
Anonymous
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Daughter accepted RD to Wesleyan.
Not a recruited athlete or legacy. I forget her GPA but it was probably around 3.86. Most demanding rigor. Went TO. No optional interview/video. No demonstrated interest. She only added Wesleyan to her Common App in mid-December. |
Anonymous
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Daughter RD to CMC.
Not a sports recruit/legacy. 4.0 UW/TO/High but not highest rigor. Submitted a video but no interview (it’s highly recommended to do at least one). I think what helped most were the supplementals + video. CMC has a very specific mission, and she crafted her essays/video accordingly. No demonstrated interest |
Anonymous
| Go to the values and mission statement pages of these colleges and you can reverse engineer an application. |
Anonymous
These are not the 10 most selective SLACs. Colby, Davidson and Haverford have lower admit rates vs Wesleyan, Carleton and Middlebury. |
Anonymous
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DD at Swat---3.8GPA; 36 ACT; rigorous NYC single-sex private; ECs---captain of robotics team, class president senior year; deferred ED but then accepted RD.
DS just applied ED to Carleton as an athletic recruit and has a "likely letter;" 3.7 GPA; 35 ACT; different rigorous NYC private; ECs---mostly centered around sports and music. |