Colgate?

[Anonymous]

Lol. There are a few rabid posters who have gone on and on after someone posted about Colgate cresting. It was a play on words, people. Colgate. Crest. Get it? 🙄😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The increases are tied to three items, there is an article floating around the colgate site:

Accepting common app

Positive media exposure during Covid - that is when the dean of school moved into a dorm and brought back all the students into a campus bubble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh2yl0Kzi7Q

New tuition system, free for households under 80k HHI
https://www.colgate.edu/news/stories/colgate-university-launches-colgate-commitment

It was the President who moved into a dorm.

They also made March Madness three years in a row. That elevates a small school’s profile and increases applications.

[Anonymous]

Grew up in a place where Colgate literally meant toothpaste. Like we say “you can google it”, we said did you Colgate today. Can't shake that association. What do you do if a toothpaste is 10000x more we'll known than your college? Hard PR problem.

[Anonymous]

My nephew got rejected from all of his reaches and all other targets, so he's going to Colgate. He's getting more and more upset as it gets closer to move in date Too small, not "prestigious" enough, middle of nowhere, frats or nothing culture. He's really feeling down about it. Of the the kids he knows going, most are settling. Makes for a strange atmosphere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My nephew got rejected from all of his reaches and all other targets, so he's going to Colgate. He's getting more and more upset as it gets closer to move in date Too small, not "prestigious" enough, middle of nowhere, frats or nothing culture. He's really feeling down about it. Of the the kids he knows going, most are settling. Makes for a strange atmosphere.

Your nephew sounds like an idiotic obnoxious dramatic snowflake. Please, please tell him to take a Gap year and apply elsewhere next year.

[Anonymous]

I know when I was upset about my college choice and learned that my friends were "settling," the first think I did was call my Aunt and tell her about it.

[Anonymous]

Have him visit the campus. He'll love it.

[Anonymous]

I was at Cornell Law School in the late 80s. Cornell tended to accept one or two top students from a wide variety of colleges rather than dig deeper into the top schools. The largest contingent came, of course, from Cornell itself. Number two was Colgate.

[Anonymous]

At least 90% of smart kids at any school below Ivies, MIT, Stanford, feel like they have settled (and some at the so-called lower Ivies feel that way too). Tell him to join the club. Every 4.0/1550+ kid can’t get in to those schools numbers wise. Time to move on and love who loves you. With a less than 12% acceptance rate this year at Colgate he will be surrounded by brilliant hardworking classmates and at a better college than 88% of his peers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC has been accepted but can't stop thinking about the Ivy rejections and unlikely T20 waitlists.

A high flyer at a top HS, he's consumed by feelings that its a "failure." DH and I are very proud, but nothing seems to help. Are others dealing with this?

Please tell me about the good and great that makes Colgate a great place to spend 4 years. Please.

Ready "Where You Go is not Who You'll Be."

Some of the stories may resonate with your son-though of course Colgate is hardly the dregs of higher ed.

Too bad he needs external validation so much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My nephew got rejected from all of his reaches and all other targets, so he's going to Colgate. He's getting more and more upset as it gets closer to move in date Too small, not "prestigious" enough, middle of nowhere, frats or nothing culture. He's really feeling down about it. Of the the kids he knows going, most are settling. Makes for a strange atmosphere.

Was that option foisted upon him? Didn't he create his own list?

Kids need to think the realities through when they are deciding where to apply, not just listen to counsellors/parents/USNWR.

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Anonymous wrote:Colgate's admission rate this year was about 17% - low, but not quite in Amherst/Williams/Midd territory despite huge increase in applications.
Part of what's driving the spike in numbers at many competitive schools is applications from non-score-reporting applicants who would not previously have applied. And some of these applicants are shotgunning 20, 30+ applications just to see what sticks. Which means, at many schools, accepted students will have more options and yield will trend down. So the decline in admission rates is not linear.

Nope. Admission rate was 12% for class of 2026.

Where are those numbers? The school reported 17% but has not send out its CDS yet.

Seriously? 12 or 17% Who cares people.

This kind of thinking is what has the lucky boy feeling like a failure. It is warped.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grew up in a place where Colgate literally meant toothpaste. Like we say “you can google it”, we said did you Colgate today. Can't shake that association. What do you do if a toothpaste is 10000x more we'll known than your college? Hard PR problem.

Where was this? I have never heard of “Did you Colgate today?”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Colgate's admission rate this year was about 17% - low, but not quite in Amherst/Williams/Midd territory despite huge increase in applications.
Part of what's driving the spike in numbers at many competitive schools is applications from non-score-reporting applicants who would not previously have applied. And some of these applicants are shotgunning 20, 30+ applications just to see what sticks. Which means, at many schools, accepted students will have more options and yield will trend down. So the decline in admission rates is not linear.

Nope. Admission rate was 12% for class of 2026.

Where are those numbers? The school reported 17% but has not send out its CDS yet.

Seriously? 12 or 17% Who cares people.

This kind of thinking is what has the lucky boy feeling like a failure. It is warped.

It’s 12% (11.8%). Call admissions and ask if you don’t believe facts. Colgate reported 17% for 2021’s admittance of the class of 2025. For this year, the class of 2026, it was 12%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Colgate's admission rate this year was about 17% - low, but not quite in Amherst/Williams/Midd territory despite huge increase in applications.
Part of what's driving the spike in numbers at many competitive schools is applications from non-score-reporting applicants who would not previously have applied. And some of these applicants are shotgunning 20, 30+ applications just to see what sticks. Which means, at many schools, accepted students will have more options and yield will trend down. So the decline in admission rates is not linear.

Nope. Admission rate was 12% for class of 2026.

Where are those numbers? The school reported 17% but has not send out its CDS yet.

Seriously? 12 or 17% Who cares people.

This kind of thinking is what has the lucky boy feeling like a failure. It is warped.

People who understand math care.