Which among WASP would you choose to ED and why?

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Anonymous wrote:Not many top talent phds coming from the “good” lacs.

8 out of top 10 per capita are SLACs. You are an idiot.
https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-phd-programs#total-phd

Okay? You didn’t combat my point. Please work on your reading comprehension.

New poster, here. You made a claim without any support about lack of “top talent” from SLACs. Do you have evidence for this assertion? I went from a top 10 SLAC to a fully funded top 5 PhD program. SLACs were extremely well represented in my cohort.

You will not find lac grads at the top PhD programs in STEM.

Evidence?

It's not true. My D went to Pomona and these were some of the PhD destinations from peers in his graduating class

Astrophysics Berkeley
Math MIT
Math Berkeley x 2
Math Stanford
Chemistry Princeton
Chemistry CalTech
Chemistry Stanford
CS Carnegie Mellon
MD PhD Harvard

Pomona has not had a math major go to MIT in the last Decade…

The one I know is in class of 2018 (Pomona) so, actually, they have.

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Also, https://math.mit.edu/directory/profile.html?pid=2693 is a Pomona grad

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WASP-B data on MCPS applications/admits/attending from the most recent cycle.
https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/09/10/mcps-students-college/

Amherst, 52 /4 /4 7.7% acceptance rate

Bowdoin 47/ 10/ 7 21% acceptance rate

Pomona 34 / 2/ 1 5.8% acceptance rate

Swarthmore 64/ 10/ 5 15.6% acceptance rate

Williams 54 / 5/ 2 9% acceptance rate


Swarthmore is the most popular application, Pomona the least. Amherst and Bowdoin have the highest yield.

In terms of strategy, Bowdoin then Swarthmore are the way to go. PAW very tough admits, keeping in mind that AW stats definitely include recruited athletes as well.

Middlebury: 57/7/2 (12% acceptance rate)
Colby: 39/10/5 (26% acceptance rate)
Bates: 28/10/5 (36% acceptance rate)
Wesleyan: 55/18/10 (33% acceptance rate)
Hamilton: 25/10/7 (40% acceptance rate)
Carleton: 27/15/7 (56% acceptance rate)
Haverford: 37/11/5 (30% acceptance rate)
Davidson: 39/5/3 (13% acceptance rate)

[Anonymous]

Oh, another one- https://www.pomona.edu/news/2021/01/11-elena-kim-21-awarded-2021-alice-t-shafer-mathematics-prize

People really love to just lie to twist whatever narrative they like

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, https://math.mit.edu/directory/profile.html?pid=2693 is a Pomona grad

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiahui-yu-4588051aa/

Yep. The lesson, as always, is that people often talk out of their fundaments on DCUM. They're usually easy to spot: They don't acknowledge nuance, speak in pthy absolutes, and offer little elaboration.

[Anonymous]

Pomona also had Zoe Batterman '24 who won a Goldwater and Churchill Scholarship and is currently at Harvard for a PhD in pure math: https://www.pomona.edu/news/2024/01/16-zoe-batterman-24-wins-churchill-scholarship

Pomona is one of the top producers for Goldwater and Churchill Scholars per capita, which are two of the most prestigious undergraduate scholarships/fellowships in STEM

I'm sure you can find similar students at the other WAS LACs and many others.

[Anonymous]

Interesting to see that only four schools admit 5 or fewer students: PAW and Davidson.

So don’t have your kid prioritize these, OP!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:WASP-B data on MCPS applications/admits/attending from the most recent cycle.
https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/09/10/mcps-students-college/

Amherst, 52 /4 /4 7.7% acceptance rate

Bowdoin 47/ 10/ 7 21% acceptance rate

Pomona 34 / 2/ 1 5.8% acceptance rate

Swarthmore 64/ 10/ 5 15.6% acceptance rate

Williams 54 / 5/ 2 9% acceptance rate


Swarthmore is the most popular application, Pomona the least. Amherst and Bowdoin have the highest yield.

In terms of strategy, Bowdoin then Swarthmore are the way to go. PAW very tough admits, keeping in mind that AW stats definitely include recruited athletes as well.

Middlebury: 57/7/2 (12% acceptance rate)
Colby: 39/10/5 (26% acceptance rate)
Bates: 28/10/5 (36% acceptance rate)
Wesleyan: 55/18/10 (33% acceptance rate)
Hamilton: 25/10/7 (40% acceptance rate)
Carleton: 27/15/7 (56% acceptance rate)
Haverford: 37/11/5 (30% acceptance rate)
Davidson: 39/5/3 (13% acceptance rate)

Interesting. We don't know how many of the 57 who applied to Middlebury were ED, but we can presume that 5 of the 7 accepted applied RD (since they didn't matriculate). Maybe Midd isn't as safe a bet in ED as people on this site make it out to be.

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Anonymous wrote:Not many top talent phds coming from the “good” lacs.

8 out of top 10 per capita are SLACs. You are an idiot.
https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-phd-programs#total-phd

Okay? You didn’t combat my point. Please work on your reading comprehension.

New poster, here. You made a claim without any support about lack of “top talent” from SLACs. Do you have evidence for this assertion? I went from a top 10 SLAC to a fully funded top 5 PhD program. SLACs were extremely well represented in my cohort.

You will not find lac grads at the top PhD programs in STEM.

Evidence?

It's not true. My D went to Pomona and these were some of the PhD destinations from peers in his graduating class

Astrophysics Berkeley
Math MIT
Math Berkeley x 2
Math Stanford
Chemistry Princeton
Chemistry CalTech
Chemistry Stanford
CS Carnegie Mellon
MD PhD Harvard

Pomona has not had a math major go to MIT in the last Decade…

The one I know is in class of 2018 (Pomona) so, actually, they have.

So mythical people

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WASP-B data on MCPS applications/admits/attending from the most recent cycle.
https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/09/10/mcps-students-college/

Amherst, 52 /4 /4 7.7% acceptance rate

Bowdoin 47/ 10/ 7 21% acceptance rate

Pomona 34 / 2/ 1 5.8% acceptance rate

Swarthmore 64/ 10/ 5 15.6% acceptance rate

Williams 54 / 5/ 2 9% acceptance rate


Swarthmore is the most popular application, Pomona the least. Amherst and Bowdoin have the highest yield.

In terms of strategy, Bowdoin then Swarthmore are the way to go. PAW very tough admits, keeping in mind that AW stats definitely include recruited athletes as well.

Middlebury: 57/7/2 (12% acceptance rate)
Colby: 39/10/5 (26% acceptance rate)
Bates: 28/10/5 (36% acceptance rate)
Wesleyan: 55/18/10 (33% acceptance rate)
Hamilton: 25/10/7 (40% acceptance rate)
Carleton: 27/15/7 (56% acceptance rate)
Haverford: 37/11/5 (30% acceptance rate)
Davidson: 39/5/3 (13% acceptance rate)

Interesting. We don't know how many of the 57 who applied to Middlebury were ED, but we can presume that 5 of the 7 accepted applied RD (since they didn't matriculate). Maybe Midd isn't as safe a bet in ED as people on this site make it out to be.

And maybe Midd’s RD yield is even worse than this site makes it out to be.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:WASP-B data on MCPS applications/admits/attending from the most recent cycle.
https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/09/10/mcps-students-college/

Amherst, 52 /4 /4 7.7% acceptance rate

Bowdoin 47/ 10/ 7 21% acceptance rate

Pomona 34 / 2/ 1 5.8% acceptance rate

Swarthmore 64/ 10/ 5 15.6% acceptance rate

Williams 54 / 5/ 2 9% acceptance rate


Swarthmore is the most popular application, Pomona the least. Amherst and Bowdoin have the highest yield.

In terms of strategy, Bowdoin then Swarthmore are the way to go. PAW very tough admits, keeping in mind that AW stats definitely include recruited athletes as well.

Why does Pomona take so few

Because it is a great school?

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Anonymous wrote:Not many top talent phds coming from the “good” lacs.

8 out of top 10 per capita are SLACs. You are an idiot.
https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-phd-programs#total-phd

Okay? You didn’t combat my point. Please work on your reading comprehension.

New poster, here. You made a claim without any support about lack of “top talent” from SLACs. Do you have evidence for this assertion? I went from a top 10 SLAC to a fully funded top 5 PhD program. SLACs were extremely well represented in my cohort.

You will not find lac grads at the top PhD programs in STEM.

Evidence?

It's not true. My D went to Pomona and these were some of the PhD destinations from peers in his graduating class

Astrophysics Berkeley
Math MIT
Math Berkeley x 2
Math Stanford
Chemistry Princeton
Chemistry CalTech
Chemistry Stanford
CS Carnegie Mellon
MD PhD Harvard

Pomona has not had a math major go to MIT in the last Decade…

The one I know is in class of 2018 (Pomona) so, actually, they have.

So mythical people

Several people above have posted links to Pomona grads at MIT right now. You've lost this one, buddy. Beat it.

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Anonymous wrote:Not many top talent phds coming from the “good” lacs.

8 out of top 10 per capita are SLACs. You are an idiot.
https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-phd-programs#total-phd

Okay? You didn’t combat my point. Please work on your reading comprehension.

New poster, here. You made a claim without any support about lack of “top talent” from SLACs. Do you have evidence for this assertion? I went from a top 10 SLAC to a fully funded top 5 PhD program. SLACs were extremely well represented in my cohort.

You will not find lac grads at the top PhD programs in STEM.

Evidence?

It's not true. My D went to Pomona and these were some of the PhD destinations from peers in his graduating class

Astrophysics Berkeley
Math MIT
Math Berkeley x 2
Math Stanford
Chemistry Princeton
Chemistry CalTech
Chemistry Stanford
CS Carnegie Mellon
MD PhD Harvard

Pomona has not had a math major go to MIT in the last Decade…

The one I know is in class of 2018 (Pomona) so, actually, they have.

So mythical people

Several people above have posted links to Pomona grads at MIT right now. You've lost this one, buddy. Beat it.

LinkedIn profiles with no photo and identifiable information. It’s really obvious these are bot accounts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not many top talent phds coming from the “good” lacs.

8 out of top 10 per capita are SLACs. You are an idiot.
https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-phd-programs#total-phd

Okay? You didn’t combat my point. Please work on your reading comprehension.

New poster, here. You made a claim without any support about lack of “top talent” from SLACs. Do you have evidence for this assertion? I went from a top 10 SLAC to a fully funded top 5 PhD program. SLACs were extremely well represented in my cohort.

You will not find lac grads at the top PhD programs in STEM.

Evidence?

It's not true. My D went to Pomona and these were some of the PhD destinations from peers in his graduating class

Astrophysics Berkeley
Math MIT
Math Berkeley x 2
Math Stanford
Chemistry Princeton
Chemistry CalTech
Chemistry Stanford
CS Carnegie Mellon
MD PhD Harvard

Pomona has not had a math major go to MIT in the last Decade…

The one I know is in class of 2018 (Pomona) so, actually, they have.

So mythical people

Several people above have posted links to Pomona grads at MIT right now. You've lost this one, buddy. Beat it.

LinkedIn profiles with no photo and identifiable information. It’s really obvious these are bot accounts.

Get a life, loser. Stop with the pathetic strawmen, then refusing to admit that you were beaten with your own strawman. Your goalposts are on skates.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not many top talent phds coming from the “good” lacs.

8 out of top 10 per capita are SLACs. You are an idiot.
https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-phd-programs#total-phd

Okay? You didn’t combat my point. Please work on your reading comprehension.

New poster, here. You made a claim without any support about lack of “top talent” from SLACs. Do you have evidence for this assertion? I went from a top 10 SLAC to a fully funded top 5 PhD program. SLACs were extremely well represented in my cohort.

You will not find lac grads at the top PhD programs in STEM.

Evidence?

It's not true. My D went to Pomona and these were some of the PhD destinations from peers in his graduating class

Astrophysics Berkeley
Math MIT
Math Berkeley x 2
Math Stanford
Chemistry Princeton
Chemistry CalTech
Chemistry Stanford
CS Carnegie Mellon
MD PhD Harvard

Pomona has not had a math major go to MIT in the last Decade…

The one I know is in class of 2018 (Pomona) so, actually, they have.

So mythical people

Several people above have posted links to Pomona grads at MIT right now. You've lost this one, buddy. Beat it.

LinkedIn profiles with no photo and identifiable information. It’s really obvious these are bot accounts.

Get a life, loser. Stop with the pathetic strawmen, then refusing to admit that you were beaten with your own strawman. Your goalposts are on skates.

So I’m glad you learned a few logic terms, but you’re heavily abusing/misusing them.