Most selective LACs by acceptance rate (Class of 2027)

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[Post New]12/24/2023 17:19
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Anonymous
1. Pomona- 6.8%
2. Swarthmore- 6.9%
3. Colby- 7% (doesn't list the exact percent, so it could be 1, 2, or 3)
4. Barnard- 8%
5. Bowdoin- 8.02%
6. Grinnell- 9.5%
7. Williams- 9.8%
8. Amherst- 10.0%
9. Claremont McKenna- 11%
10. Middlebury- 11.6%
11. Hamilton- 11.8%
12. Haverford- 12.9%
13. Bates- 13% (again, no exact percent listed)
14. Harvey Mudd- 13.1%
15. Wellesley- 13.9%
16. Davidson- 14.5%

Notable outliers- Carleton (21.7%) but ranked in the top 10; Denison and Pitzer (both 17%) but ranked outside the top 30
[Post New]12/24/2023 18:29
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Anonymous
W&L should be noted, especially if Denison and Carleton are listed. It's probably somewhere in between acceptance rate wise, but a better / historically consistent "ranking" than both.

Wesleyan and Vassar too.
[Post New]12/24/2023 18:36
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:1. Pomona- 6.8%
2. Swarthmore- 6.9%
3. Colby- 7% (doesn't list the exact percent, so it could be 1, 2, or 3)
4. Barnard- 8%
5. Bowdoin- 8.02%
6. Grinnell- 9.5%
7. Williams- 9.8%
8. Amherst- 10.0%
9. Claremont McKenna- 11%
10. Middlebury- 11.6%
11. Hamilton- 11.8%
12. Haverford- 12.9%
13. Bates- 13% (again, no exact percent listed)
14. Harvey Mudd- 13.1%
15. Wellesley- 13.9%
16. Davidson- 14.5%

Notable outliers- Carleton (21.7%) but ranked in the top 10; Denison and Pitzer (both 17%) but ranked outside the top 30


Didn’t Colby drop many ranks? Now it’s back up? What’s going on?
[Post New]12/24/2023 19:23
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:1. Pomona- 6.8%
2. Swarthmore- 6.9%
3. Colby- 7% (doesn't list the exact percent, so it could be 1, 2, or 3)
4. Barnard- 8%
5. Bowdoin- 8.02%
6. Grinnell- 9.5%
7. Williams- 9.8%
8. Amherst- 10.0%
9. Claremont McKenna- 11%
10. Middlebury- 11.6%
11. Hamilton- 11.8%
12. Haverford- 12.9%
13. Bates- 13% (again, no exact percent listed)
14. Harvey Mudd- 13.1%
15. Wellesley- 13.9%
16. Davidson- 14.5%

Notable outliers- Carleton (21.7%) but ranked in the top 10; Denison and Pitzer (both 17%) but ranked outside the top 30


Didn’t Colby drop many ranks? Now it’s back up? What’s going on?

It's acceptance rate. Not a ranking.
[Post New]12/24/2023 19:56
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Anonymous
How many of the top 16 LACs have two rounds of ED ? Creates an artificially low acceptance rate.
[Post New]12/24/2023 20:02
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:1. Pomona- 6.8%
2. Swarthmore- 6.9%
3. Colby- 7% (doesn't list the exact percent, so it could be 1, 2, or 3)
4. Barnard- 8%
5. Bowdoin- 8.02%
6. Grinnell- 9.5%
7. Williams- 9.8%
8. Amherst- 10.0%
9. Claremont McKenna- 11%
10. Middlebury- 11.6%
11. Hamilton- 11.8%
12. Haverford- 12.9%
13. Bates- 13% (again, no exact percent listed)
14. Harvey Mudd- 13.1%
15. Wellesley- 13.9%
16. Davidson- 14.5%

Notable outliers- Carleton (21.7%) but ranked in the top 10; Denison and Pitzer (both 17%) but ranked outside the top 30


Arbitrary cutoff at 14.5% or #16.

Anything below 20% is it. That "expands" to how many SLACS?
[Post New]12/24/2023 20:08
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:How many of the top 16 LACs have two rounds of ED ? Creates an artificially low acceptance rate.


You do realize that Johns Hopkins, Boston University, NYU, Tufts, Vanderbilt and WashU also have ED2? Not sure your theory holds any water.
[Post New]12/24/2023 20:11
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:W&L should be noted, especially if Denison and Carleton are listed. It's probably somewhere in between acceptance rate wise, but a better / historically consistent "ranking" than both.

Wesleyan and Vassar too.


W&L was at #25 (in 1988, when it joined the list), rose to #8 in 1998, and is now at #11. Its average rank: 15.
Carleton's lowest rank was #13 in 1993 and it's now #9. Its average rank: 8.

Data from http://andyreiter.com/datasets/
[Post New]12/24/2023 20:11
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:How many of the top 16 LACs have two rounds of ED ? Creates an artificially low acceptance rate.


Just checked: Appears to be either 12 or 13 of the top 16 LACs listed in the first post offer ED 2. (Amherst, Barnard, & Williams do not according to a quick google search.)
[Post New]12/24/2023 20:12
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Anonymous
I really don’t understand the Colby thing. I know three kids there now who didn’t get into schools with higher acceptance rates (Middlebury, BC and Brown). But maybe the key is that the kids I know are all full pay?
[Post New]12/24/2023 20:20
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I really don’t understand the Colby thing. I know three kids there now who didn’t get into schools with higher acceptance rates (Middlebury, BC and Brown). But maybe the key is that the kids I know are all full pay?


Colby is need-blind for both international and domestic students. That's one of the reasons that it's so hard to get into.
[Post New]12/24/2023 21:01
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:1. Pomona- 6.8%
2. Swarthmore- 6.9%
3. Colby- 7% (doesn't list the exact percent, so it could be 1, 2, or 3)
4. Barnard- 8%
5. Bowdoin- 8.02%
6. Grinnell- 9.5%
7. Williams- 9.8%
8. Amherst- 10.0%
9. Claremont McKenna- 11%
10. Middlebury- 11.6%
11. Hamilton- 11.8%
12. Haverford- 12.9%
13. Bates- 13% (again, no exact percent listed)
14. Harvey Mudd- 13.1%
15. Wellesley- 13.9%
16. Davidson- 14.5%

Notable outliers- Carleton (21.7%) but ranked in the top 10; Denison and Pitzer (both 17%) but ranked outside the top 30


Didn’t Colby drop many ranks? Now it’s back up? What’s going on?

It's acceptance rate. Not a ranking.


+100

Acceptance rate (low) could mean they have good marketing that encourages lots of unqualified applications.

Doesn’t mean much.



[Post New]12/24/2023 21:24
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I really don’t understand the Colby thing. I know three kids there now who didn’t get into schools with higher acceptance rates (Middlebury, BC and Brown). But maybe the key is that the kids I know are all full pay?


Colby is need-blind for both international and domestic students. That's one of the reasons that it's so hard to get into.


This is incorrect on both accounts. It is, per its own website, need aware for all students. That may make it more difficult for a high need student to be admitted and easier for a low need one.
[Post New]12/24/2023 23:30
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I really don’t understand the Colby thing. I know three kids there now who didn’t get into schools with higher acceptance rates (Middlebury, BC and Brown). But maybe the key is that the kids I know are all full pay?


Colby is need-blind for both international and domestic students. That's one of the reasons that it's so hard to get into.


This is incorrect on both accounts. It is, per its own website, need aware for all students. That may make it more difficult for a high need student to be admitted and easier for a low need one.


They do meet full need of admitted students, which is great, but I think a lot of people conflate that with being need blind.
[Post New]12/25/2023 00:40
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I really don’t understand the Colby thing. I know three kids there now who didn’t get into schools with higher acceptance rates (Middlebury, BC and Brown). But maybe the key is that the kids I know are all full pay?


Colby is need-blind for both international and domestic students. That's one of the reasons that it's so hard to get into.


And there is no fee to apply. I am not sure, whether Colby is need blind.
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