Connecticut College
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Seriously my! Got it, you’re not a fan. What value are you bringing to this post? It’s such odd behavior. |
Anonymous
Agreed. I’m feeling like kind of a loser for being on this forum on a nice Sunday talking about my kid’s college, but one truly needs to reexamine their life if they are sitting on DCUM on a nice Sunday afternoon bashing a school to which they have little or no connection. |
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No one bashed it. |
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No |
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It’s on a river that opens into the sound three miles down. It’s close enough to the sound that the Coast Guard Academy is next door. |
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Connecticut College will be shielded from the massive federal grant cuts underway and continuing into the future so the issue plaguing colleges like the University of Michigan don't affect it. It receives very little funding.
However (and this is a HUGE however): Applications received and SAT (25%/75% 2021: 7,682 1353-1450 2022: 8,744 1180-1300 2023: 9,397 1170-1370 2024: 7,937 1160-1400 Stagnant or declining applications and declining SAT scores. All competitive or "prestige" colleges have seen huge increases in both. To be the outlier should question what is different about Conn College compared to what used to be considered its peers? Once your college starts to backslide it is hard to right the ship. If its perception as just an "average" college which charges $92,000 a year, who will want to pay that premium? |
Anonymous
Have you been there? Know any current students or alums? |
Anonymous
Liar. Their mid-50 range is 1340-1470. |
Anonymous
DP. Based on CC's CDS, those SAT figures are accurate. 25th percentile: 1160 Median: 1280 75th percentile: 1400 66% of enrolled students reported standardized scoring results. |
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You can’t really draw conclusions from COVID era and so few years. Conn has CDS posted for the past 10 years. In 2016, 2017, they had around 5000-6000 applicants, so overall their applicant numbers have increased pretty significantly over that period. And one thing about Conn is that it doesn’t really care that much about its selectivity stats. It doesn’t play the games some schools do trying to pump up application numbers with no supplemental essays and no application fees. It doesn’t try to cultivate its selectivity numbers by accepting almost all of its class ED and waitlisting RD applicants and then handpicking them off the WL. It isn’t trying to be something it isn’t. Finally, it offers significant discounts in the form of merit aid to almost all its students, so full-pay students are paying $55,000 or $60,000 while they would be paying $90,000 at Bates or Colby. |
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And I should also add, 66 percent of students reporting test scores is actually very high for a TO school. I just glanced at Amherst’s CDS for an example, and its number is lower. This is another way Conn doesn’t care about playing games; I’m betting at some of the other NESCACs they have many of the athletes apply test-optional so they don’t have to have their scores factor into the average. |
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48% of its freshmen class applied Early Decision. That's a big number.
Its yield is low that when you see it (15%) it makes you double and triple check the number. But it is accurate: 2,937 were accepted, only 451 enrolled. That is a 15% yield. And of those 451, 216 were admitted early decision. So the effective yield is: 451-216=235 non-ED applicants who enrolled 2,937-216= 2,721 non-ED admits offered 8.6% of students who applied regular decision and were admitted to Conn College chose to accept the admission offer. And the scant few who accepted the offer of admissin are objectively weaker applicants than in years past. |
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| I went to Conn and loved my time there. My DD was admitted there this year with $38k merit. She ended up committing to a different NESCAC school that offers a wider array of creative writing courses. She was impressed with the music and art departments, as well as museum studies certificate programs. If you want a liberal arts college experience, it’s definitely worth checking out. We visited twice in the past year, and all the students we met were friendly and didn’t seem particularly competitive. I think most students tend towards liberal, but it’s not an activist student body, so I think it’s perhaps more ok to be conservative at Conn than at some schools more known for activism. I think there is an active Christian group (although not sure of size). It’s a lovely campus and since it seems to matter to some you can see Long Island Sound on a clear day from Temple Green. |
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As I said earlier, its yield is similar to other schools in its ranking group. Conn is a target/safety for the high-flying kids who are applying to other New England SLACs. So naturally its yield will be a lot lower than more selective schools.
Again, Conn is not WASP. It’s not trying to be. For kids who don’t have WASP numbers or who value the merit aid and aren’t hung up on rankings/admissions rate, it’s a great place. |
Anonymous
Because maybe their DD likes arboretums! |