Bucknell vs Colgate ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Colgate seems to be a place for kids that didn’t get into their top choices. Hamilton is very remote and very long winters

They fill about 60% of the class with ED applicants, so it's the top choice for many of them. I can say from experience that Hamilton is indeed very remote and cold.

ED=/=top choice, it's the strategic choice they made knowing they weren't getting into Dartmouth early and that Colgate heavily weights admissions toward early applicants.

Whatever. Most kids ED colleges they actually want to attend.

[Anonymous]

No skin in the game but my own impression has been that Colgate is a much better school than Bucknell?

[Anonymous]

My impression is Colgate is a school for kids that didn’t get into Midd, or Bowdoin and a couple of steps below Dartmouth and Williams. The academic reputations of Bucknell and Colgate are interchangeable both solid schools but Colgate is freezing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My impression is Colgate is a school for kids that didn’t get into Midd . . . .

However, the Princeton Review recently gave Colgate a higher Selectivity Rating (98, on a 60 to 100 scale) than that for Middlebury (97). Bucknell rated at 94.

https://www.princetonreview.com/college/colgate-university-1023882

https://www.princetonreview.com/college/middlebury-college-1023860

https://www.princetonreview.com/college/bucknell-university-1023825

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My impression is Colgate is a school for kids that didn’t get into Midd . . . .

However, the Princeton Review recently gave Colgate a higher Selectivity Rating (98, on a 60 to 100 scale) than that for Middlebury (97). Bucknell rated at 94.

https://www.princetonreview.com/college/colgate-university-1023882

https://www.princetonreview.com/college/middlebury-college-1023860

https://www.princetonreview.com/college/bucknell-university-1023825

Yea, that's come up before and nobody can figure out their why because Middlebury has a lower acceptance rate and higher stats. The consensus is that the number of applicants somehow factors in their formula since Colgate has 50% more applicants than Middlebury. The class profiles are similar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My impression is Colgate is a school for kids that didn’t get into Midd . . . .

However, the Princeton Review recently gave Colgate a higher Selectivity Rating (98, on a 60 to 100 scale) than that for Middlebury (97). Bucknell rated at 94.

https://www.princetonreview.com/college/colgate-university-1023882

https://www.princetonreview.com/college/middlebury-college-1023860

https://www.princetonreview.com/college/bucknell-university-1023825

The same source gave the following academic ratings (out of 99):

Middlebury: 99
Colgate: 95
Bucknell: 90

Bowdoin: 89

Still going with Princeton Review as a reliable source?

[Anonymous]

Colgate over Bucknell

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My impression is Colgate is a school for kids that didn’t get into Midd . . . .

However, the Princeton Review recently gave Colgate a higher Selectivity Rating (98, on a 60 to 100 scale) than that for Middlebury (97). Bucknell rated at 94.

https://www.princetonreview.com/college/colgate-university-1023882

https://www.princetonreview.com/college/middlebury-college-1023860

https://www.princetonreview.com/college/bucknell-university-1023825

The same source gave the following academic ratings (out of 99):

Middlebury: 99
Colgate: 95
Bucknell: 90

Bowdoin: 89

Still going with Princeton Review as a reliable source?

Don’t forget Amherst at 91!

[Anonymous]

I'll correct my 9:22 post by noting that Princeton Review Selectivity Ratings fall along a 60 to 99 scale.

[Anonymous]

Can’t imagine spending 4 years at Colgate Guess that’s why they have decent hockey.