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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Williams takes 35% of early applicants. Middlebury takes 50%.

If you're a highly qualified kid and apply to a LAC - especially through ED - you get in.

The same is not true of the top universities. [/quote]

Pomona takes 19%. It and Harvey Mudd have the lowest ED acceptance rates in the country. The only reason W/M are so high is because a huge number of their ED applicants are NESCAC DIII athletes who have been interested in the school for years. [/quote]

Pomona [u]is[/u] very selective. It and Harvey Mudd benefit from much less competition on the West Coast among kids who are interested in LACs. And yet even they are not as selective as top universites.

According to Pomona’s 2016-17 Common Data Set, last year it accepted 196 of 1004 ED applicants – 19.5%. Harvey Mudd accepted 18% of 436 ED applicants. They haven't released this year's ED numbers, but compare them to schools that have released ED/EA stats.

About the same as Brown, which has 3x and 8x the number of applicants as those LACs. Not sure why you think the same acceptance rate but with significantly fewer applicants equals greater selectivity. And the other schools are more selective and with significantly greater numbers of applicants.

MIT 657 out of 8394 (7.8%)
Harvard 938 out of 6473 (14.5%)
Princeton 770 out of 5003 (15.4%)
Yale 871 out of 5086 (17.1%)
Brown 695 out of 3170 (21.9%)

Williams 257 out of 728 (35.3%)
Middlebury 343 out of 673 (51.0%)
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