dramatic acceptance rate change: Holy Cross

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Worcester is starting to re-gentrify

We were there last summer and it was still awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Discouraging to see this! My DD has it on her list as a target but all the dropping acceptance rates make it even harder to figure out what is a target.

Same, this is really depressing news.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Worcester is starting to re-gentrify

We were there last summer and it was still awful.

I've been to some great restaurants there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Discouraging to see this! My DD has it on her list as a target but all the dropping acceptance rates make it even harder to figure out what is a target.

It’s not really a target at this point. Wasn’t last year when the acceptance rate was 19% to 20%. And isn’t this year. It’s a reach for everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:Worcester is starting to re-gentrify and I think people have started to look at it harder since BC has gotten so hard to get into. It used to be a very highly respected school but seemed to decline in popularity over the past couple of decades. I'm glad to see it coming back.

This. I think, also, that the 30-40% acceptance rate was a big draw. It was so obviously off.

FWIW, we considered it a low target for my daughter (who did get into BC and other reach-for-everyone schools), and she was waitlisted at HC.

FFS this is called yield protection

Isn’t “yield protection” actually lack of demonstrated interest. Lots of colleges prioritize how much the applicant demonstrates that they WANT to attend there. For a number of reasons. Cohesive, vibrant student body with school spirit for example. Casting it as “yield protection” makes the colleges’ motives sound more sinister when it’s really that the applicant appeared to the college to just throw the application in along with a dozen others. Colleges don’t, nor should they, admit only on GPA and test scores.

In the workplace analogy, I’m hiring the 3.4 GPA grad from UMD who actively networked and sought out my company over the 3.8 GPA from JHU who submitted a resume through career services and not much else.

[Anonymous]

I think every school is experiencing this. It’s a different college landscape today so the past doesn’t count at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a SLAC with single sex dorms.

All dorms are coed and some floors as well. My future husband lived 3 doors down from me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All the Boston area schools are seeing the same phenomenon. Tufts, BC, NEU, BU, WPI all have seen their acceptance rates plummet over the past 5 years.

+1, although WPI hasn't seen its acceptance rate change all that much.

[Anonymous]

probably due to it being a questbridge partner school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Worcester is starting to re-gentrify and I think people have started to look at it harder since BC has gotten so hard to get into. It used to be a very highly respected school but seemed to decline in popularity over the past couple of decades. I'm glad to see it coming back.

This. I think, also, that the 30-40% acceptance rate was a big draw. It was so obviously off.

FWIW, we considered it a low target for my daughter (who did get into BC and other reach-for-everyone schools), and she was waitlisted at HC.

FFS this is called yield protection

Isn’t “yield protection” actually lack of demonstrated interest. Lots of colleges prioritize how much the applicant demonstrates that they WANT to attend there. For a number of reasons. Cohesive, vibrant student body with school spirit for example. Casting it as “yield protection” makes the colleges’ motives sound more sinister when it’s really that the applicant appeared to the college to just throw the application in along with a dozen others. Colleges don’t, nor should they, admit only on GPA and test scores.

In the workplace analogy, I’m hiring the 3.4 GPA grad from UMD who actively networked and sought out my company over the 3.8 GPA from JHU who submitted a resume through career services and not much else.

Good analogy. My kid was a middle of the pack kid who wanted to go to his first choice school because of a specific program there and did everything he could to demonstrate interest. He ended up getting some merit aid from the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Worcester is starting to re-gentrify and I think people have started to look at it harder since BC has gotten so hard to get into. It used to be a very highly respected school but seemed to decline in popularity over the past couple of decades. I'm glad to see it coming back.

This. I think, also, that the 30-40% acceptance rate was a big draw. It was so obviously off.

FWIW, we considered it a low target for my daughter (who did get into BC and other reach-for-everyone schools), and she was waitlisted at HC.

FFS this is called yield protection

Isn’t “yield protection” actually lack of demonstrated interest. Lots of colleges prioritize how much the applicant demonstrates that they WANT to attend there. For a number of reasons. Cohesive, vibrant student body with school spirit for example. Casting it as “yield protection” makes the colleges’ motives sound more sinister when it’s really that the applicant appeared to the college to just throw the application in along with a dozen others. Colleges don’t, nor should they, admit only on GPA and test scores.

In the workplace analogy, I’m hiring the 3.4 GPA grad from UMD who actively networked and sought out my company over the 3.8 GPA from JHU who submitted a resume through career services and not much else.

Thanks to ED, yield protect is really easy now. If you take the majority early decision, then you can reject a lot more applicants regular decision

[Anonymous]

Reason 874658403857 the college admission process is a joke. HC (and others) didn't become better or more elite in the last 5 years.

What a sh--show.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:probably due to it being a questbridge partner school

The lack of diversity of HC is significant. When you go to their website you need to search hard for students representing broader ethnic diversity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Worcester is starting to re-gentrify and I think people have started to look at it harder since BC has gotten so hard to get into. It used to be a very highly respected school but seemed to decline in popularity over the past couple of decades. I'm glad to see it coming back.

This. I think, also, that the 30-40% acceptance rate was a big draw. It was so obviously off.

FWIW, we considered it a low target for my daughter (who did get into BC and other reach-for-everyone schools), and she was waitlisted at HC.

FFS this is called yield protection

Isn’t “yield protection” actually lack of demonstrated interest. Lots of colleges prioritize how much the applicant demonstrates that they WANT to attend there. For a number of reasons. Cohesive, vibrant student body with school spirit for example. Casting it as “yield protection” makes the colleges’ motives sound more sinister when it’s really that the applicant appeared to the college to just throw the application in along with a dozen others. Colleges don’t, nor should they, admit only on GPA and test scores.

In the workplace analogy, I’m hiring the 3.4 GPA grad from UMD who actively networked and sought out my company over the 3.8 GPA from JHU who submitted a resume through career services and not much else.

No, bc some schools don’t consider demonstrated interest at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a SLAC with single sex dorms.

So?