Elon college

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Anonymous wrote:Statistically very comparable to JMU. Our school naviance puts them almost identical profile for admitted student. However biggest difference is size, student/faculty ratio and price. Likely if you are coming from a private school environment you will prefer Elon. If you are price sensitive and VA resident likely prefer JMU. Not many kids picking Elon over Ivy type schools, but some very solid students finding it to their liking. Probable cross applications with JMU, UNCW, Furman, Clemson, CNU, maybe Wofford. Very pretty campus.

Agree with this. Would probably also overlap with South Carolina and Delaware in terms of OOS schools for MD/VA students, and some of the SLACs in the Mid-Atlantic like Dickinson, Gettysburg and Franklin & Marshall.

Toured it with my DS (who was mostly interested in larger in-state and OOS schools) last year. Too small/quiet/isolated for him, but I kept thinking it would be a nice school for some kids who'd gone to schools like Langley, Whitman, Potomac or Holton-Arms.

Elon isn't in the same league as Dickinson #37 USNWR (tied with F&M) , Franklin and Marshall #37 USNWR or Gettysburg #50 USNWR. Elon, on the other hand, is considered a regional school - and not considered in national rankings. It appears to a university for reasonably intelligent students who not apply themselves to academics in any way, shape or form during high school.

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^^^ I should correct myself. It appears that Elon no longer has the reputation as a school filled with slackers. It looks like it's a school on the rise. That said, it still isn't really in the same ballpark as the three SLACs noted above.

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They have some special programs which are worth a look; for example, the Communication Fellows program for would-be journalists is good - don't know how hard it is to get into.

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Excellent reference to Dickinson, F&M and Gettysburg. Naviance report for Langley says Elon has the lowest acceptance rate of Langley students for applicants to those 4 schools and Elon accepted applicants had higher grades and SAT scores than the other 3 accepted applicants. Dickinson had highest accepted ACT average of 30, followed by Elon and F&M at 29 and Gettysburg at 28.

While Elon is not much bigger than the other 3 it had more applicants from Langley than the 3 SLACs combined. So at least as to Langley it is popular with 94 applicants in the last 5 years, and relatively selective with 45% admit rate. That selectivity appears to be hurting Elon though as their yield rate is below the others. Dickinson in particular accepted 8 of 17 applicants and all 8 chose to attend. Very efficient.

What does this tell you at the end of the day? Elon popularity has increased locally to the point where kids see it as a viable alternative to the historically better known SLACs by students who have the grades and scores to be admitted to the SLACs. They must be doing something right.

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ I should correct myself. It appears that Elon no longer has the reputation as a school filled with slackers. It looks like it's a school on the rise. That said, it still isn't really in the same ballpark as the three SLACs noted above.

It really is, but you can keep telling yourself otherwise. The kids getting into Elon these days could get into those three SLACs, but prefer the warmer weather and newer buildings at Elon. If you think F&M or Dickinson is anything like Amherst or Davidson, you're seriously misguided.

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Anonymous wrote:Excellent reference to Dickinson, F&M and Gettysburg. Naviance report for Langley says Elon has the lowest acceptance rate of Langley students for applicants to those 4 schools and Elon accepted applicants had higher grades and SAT scores than the other 3 accepted applicants. Dickinson had highest accepted ACT average of 30, followed by Elon and F&M at 29 and Gettysburg at 28.

While Elon is not much bigger than the other 3 it had more applicants from Langley than the 3 SLACs combined. So at least as to Langley it is popular with 94 applicants in the last 5 years, and relatively selective with 45% admit rate. That selectivity appears to be hurting Elon though as their yield rate is below the others. Dickinson in particular accepted 8 of 17 applicants and all 8 chose to attend. Very efficient.

What does this tell you at the end of the day? Elon popularity has increased locally to the point where kids see it as a viable alternative to the historically better known SLACs by students who have the grades and scores to be admitted to the SLACs. They must be doing something right.

9:51 here. I hadn't seen this reply when I posted, but it's entirely consistent with my understanding as well. And I'm not really pushing Elon - just aware of how its selectivity has increased and now compares to other SLACs in the Mid-Atlantic and South.

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ I should correct myself. It appears that Elon no longer has the reputation as a school filled with slackers. It looks like it's a school on the rise. That said, it still isn't really in the same ballpark as the three SLACs noted above.

It really is, but you can keep telling yourself otherwise. The kids getting into Elon these days could get into those three SLACs, but prefer the warmer weather and newer buildings at Elon. If you think F&M or Dickinson is anything like Amherst or Davidson, you're seriously misguided.

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It's Elon University. Great school for a B+ kid that was involved in HS but still had a brain. Very preppy and definitely has some entitled kids. Graduated in the past 5 years - ask me anything.

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Anonymous wrote:It's Elon University. Great school for a B+ kid that was involved in HS but still had a brain. Very preppy and definitely has some entitled kids. Graduated in the past 5 years - ask me anything.

Are you gainfully employed?

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Anonymous wrote:Full of preppy rich kids who weren't able to get into better schools.

Yea back in the day it was the "bullis" of colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:It's Elon University. Great school for a B+ kid that was involved in HS but still had a brain. Very preppy and definitely has some entitled kids. Graduated in the past 5 years - ask me anything.

Are you gainfully employed?

Appreciate the snark. I work in management consulting making 6 figures at age 27. Next question?