Prestigious but High Acceptance Rate Schools?

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Trinity in Connecticut is old school preppy, has a pretty campus albeit it fenced in by the ghetto, allegedly has a great alumni network in NYC, and is practically open enrollment these days.

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Colorado School of Mimes. Quietly excellent.

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Anonymous wrote:Colorado School of Mimes. Quietly excellent.

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Anonymous wrote:Seeking to make a list of schools that are generally well-known, respected, or have strong “name recognition” but are not ultra-selective.

I’ve heard Penn State and Purdue are two. What are others?

Most Midwestern flagships.

But they may make up for loose admissions standards by weeding many students out.

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UC Merced. Has a 90% acceptance rate, Top 25 public college in the US.

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Anonymous wrote:Trinity in Connecticut is old school preppy, has a pretty campus albeit it fenced in by the ghetto, allegedly has a great alumni network in NYC, and is practically open enrollment these days.

+1 lots of solid 2nd tier schools in New England New York like Union, HWS, Conn, or Skidmore

Also Catholics like Fordham, Fairfield, Scranton or Loyola(s)

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Anonymous wrote:Carleton is prestigious but not as crazy selective as ivies. 20% acceptance rate is reasonable.

Case Western is prestigious, acceptance rate around 35%. Rochester is similar.

UMD and VT are more prestigious than CWRU and have acceptance rates of 45 and 55%

No they aren't. Good schools but they're not CWRU and definitely not Rochester

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Fordham

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Carleton is prestigious but not as crazy selective as ivies. 20% acceptance rate is reasonable.

Case Western is prestigious, acceptance rate around 35%. Rochester is similar.

UMD and VT are more prestigious than CWRU and have acceptance rates of 45 and 55%

I don't think UMD and VT are more prestigious than CWRU. They are about the same?

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Anonymous wrote:Trinity in Connecticut is old school preppy, has a pretty campus albeit it fenced in by the ghetto, allegedly has a great alumni network in NYC, and is practically open enrollment these days.

Along the same lines (old money, insane network, accessible admissions) I'd also include Hampden-Sydney. For boys only though.

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Anonymous wrote:Trinity in Connecticut is old school preppy, has a pretty campus albeit it fenced in by the ghetto, allegedly has a great alumni network in NYC, and is practically open enrollment these days.

Along the same lines (old money, insane network, accessible admissions) I'd also include Hampden-Sydney. For boys only though.

Are you on crack?

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UC Merced has a 90% acceptance rate, 9% yield, 49% 4 year graduation rate, pre-covid/test banned SAT

25%-50%-75%
990-1080-1180

It is the 25th ranked public college in the United States according to US News. That should be plenty prestigious. It is a better school than any New England public, including UMass, UConn, URI, UVM, UNH.

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CWRU is on TIME’s top 25 Univ in the world recently and Forbes’ new private Ivy’s April 2026

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Anonymous wrote:UC Merced. Has a 90% acceptance rate, Top 25 public college in the US.

UC Merced academics are very good as the Regents paid a lot to entice top faculty to the area and invests a good amount in STEM research. However it is hard to get over the bad location.

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Minnesota