ED Bump at Bowdoin or Middlebury

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like I never see a Bowdoin commit on our school's IG page unless they are a recruited athlete. Is it known for sports?

Only in that it’s virtually impossible to get in if you’re not an athlete.

+1

It's easy to run the rough numbers. Very small school, 30-40% athletes. Questbridge. National and international diversity, including URMs. That leaves how many getting in from the DMV? Very, very few. Only athletes and/or non-white kids seem to get in from our school, even then only a tiny number. When we requested information last year, there was a box to check if you were Hispanic. The only kid I knew who got in that year was Hispanic.

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The Bowdoin admission stats average from our Scoir are 4.0 and 1585(!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Bowdoin admission stats average from our Scoir are 4.0 and 1585(!)

Yep.

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Anonymous wrote:The Bowdoin admission stats average from our Scoir are 4.0 and 1585(!)

Yep.

Just did a deep dive since our 2026 kid is likely to apply ED to one of these from our mostly affluent NJ public school.

For Bowdoin, our admission stats averages are 3.9uw/4.37w and 1540/34 over past five years. Overall admit rate 11 percent (8 of 39). Only two kids applied ED, one (ED II) was accepted and one (3.67, no test) was rejected). With over 1500/35, it seems you have a very good chance (only 2 of 15 rejected, 8 accepted, rest waitlisted (outcome unknown).

Midd is a tougher admit at our school, but applicants seem to be generally less qualified. Only 5 of 60 applicants got in, and their averages were 3.86u/4.24w and 1341/31 (only 3 submitted). Three out of 11 got in ED. I'm guessing most of the admits were athletes.