Colby is poised to have the lowest acceptance rate of any LAC this year

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Anonymous wrote:For those that are new to this thread and don't want to read 15 pages, there is a clear reason why Colby had such a low acceptance rate: The number of applications have skyrocketed.

And there is a reason why applications have skyrocketed. My DC just got a postcard from Colby, it said:

1) No application fee, it is free to apply.
2) No supplemental essays.
3) They said any family with under $75K income is likely to get free tuition.
4) They said any family with under $150K income is likely to pay around $15,000 a year.
5) Average student gets $68K in aid.

So even if you don't know anything about the school, never visited, etc., all you have to do is press a button on the Common App. and can get a decision from the staff and possibly a ton of financial aid.

Can't hurt to apply? And apparently a ton of students are doing so, and Colby is rejected almost all of them.

+1. Yet another school
marketing itself to
jump in the rankings

-2. Yet another poster who does not understand that acceptance rate is not used in the USN rankings.

It is crazy that supposed bright people do not know this. Acceptance rate are not used. SAT scores are barely used. US News uses an equity driven ranking system.

It’s understandable that they don’t know it. What’s crazy is that they still feel compelled to come to places like this and spread bad information before they do any research. Which would take 5 minutes on the USN website. Ask me how I know.

[Anonymous]

Still not the lowest acceptance rate. That will go to and stays with Pomona . Can't be California!

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Colby is not good enough to be anywhere near a 6% acceptance rate. Maybe 15% at max for being a bargain bin Bowdoin, but even then it is not worth it. Why anyone would apply baffles me.

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Anonymous wrote:Colby is not good enough to be anywhere near a 6% acceptance rate. Maybe 15% at max for being a bargain bin Bowdoin, but even then it is not worth it. Why anyone would apply baffles me.

Whatever else it is, it’s not bargain bin. Same total cost of attendance as Bowdoin.

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Man, people here are vicious. My kid is very excited to attend Colby next year. He has stellar stats, and loved his visit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Colby is not good enough to be anywhere near a 6% acceptance rate. Maybe 15% at max for being a bargain bin Bowdoin, but even then it is not worth it. Why anyone would apply baffles me.

Whatever else it is, it’s not bargain bin. Same total cost of attendance as Bowdoin.

"It costs the same as a good college, so it is a good college" NYU must be an ivy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Colby is not good enough to be anywhere near a 6% acceptance rate. Maybe 15% at max for being a bargain bin Bowdoin, but even then it is not worth it. Why anyone would apply baffles me.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Colby is not good enough to be anywhere near a 6% acceptance rate. Maybe 15% at max for being a bargain bin Bowdoin, but even then it is not worth it. Why anyone would apply baffles me.

Whatever else it is, it’s not bargain bin. Same total cost of attendance as Bowdoin.

"It costs the same as a good college, so it is a good college" NYU must be an ivy.

Well no, I didn't say that - reading comprehension fail.

In this specific case, I consider both the "good college" and the "less good college" absurdly overpriced and lacking in bang for the buck.

[Anonymous]

Colby might've been the most boarding school, ugly campus I've ever been unfortunate to walk across. My DC hated their experience touring!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Man, people here are vicious. My kid is very excited to attend Colby next year. He has stellar stats, and loved his visit.

I agree. Mean people board. And such snobs. Yuck.

[Anonymous]

WOW! Anyway, Colby is perfectly respectable small college convenient both to skiing Sugarloaf and boating in Down East and Mid-Coast Maine. Strong art museum; cool signet ring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those that are new to this thread and don't want to read 15 pages, there is a clear reason why Colby had such a low acceptance rate: The number of applications have skyrocketed.

And there is a reason why applications have skyrocketed. My DC just got a postcard from Colby, it said:

1) No application fee, it is free to apply.
2) No supplemental essays.
3) They said any family with under $75K income is likely to get free tuition.
4) They said any family with under $150K income is likely to pay around $15,000 a year.
5) Average student gets $68K in aid.

So even if you don't know anything about the school, never visited, etc., all you have to do is press a button on the Common App. and can get a decision from the staff and possibly a ton of financial aid.

Can't hurt to apply? And apparently a ton of students are doing so, and Colby is rejected almost all of them.

+1. Yet another school
marketing itself to
jump in the rankings

-2. Yet another poster who does not understand that acceptance rate is not used in the USN rankings.

It is crazy that supposed bright people do not know this. Acceptance rate are not used. SAT scores are barely used. US News uses an equity driven ranking system.

It’s understandable that they don’t know it. What’s crazy is that they still feel compelled to come to places like this and spread bad information before they do any research. Which would take 5 minutes on the USN website. Ask me how I know.

Acceptance rate factors into US News indirectly as its reputation score.

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Anonymous wrote:https://news.colby.edu/story/class-of-2027-admitted-to-colby/

6% admitted, considerably down from 28% nine years ago Lower than Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Williams, and Amherst...

Colby admits for Jan and sends people to Europe first semester and doesn’t count it. Not in same category as Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Middlebury, Pomona, Wesleyan.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Man, people here are vicious. My kid is very excited to attend Colby next year. He has stellar stats, and loved his visit.

I agree. Mean people board. And such snobs. Yuck.

Insecure people board