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[quote=Anonymous]It's shameless how much they want to climb up in the rankings, which no one even takes that seriously. The acceptance rate would make you think the students are of comparable quality to places like Bowdoin/Williams, but there's no comparison- Colby's students are much weaker. Their yield is horrendously low- 28%, and that includes the ED binding students who make up 50% of their student body, because they admit high testing students without regard to how much they fit in at the school (who don't want to matriculate). That also affects retention rate, in which they don't do as well as other similarly ranked LACs (93% while most others are 96%+). Their priorities in funding have been more about experiences- dining, dorm renovations, athletics- than teaching and hiring better professors. Massively over-hyped in my opinion, and I consider schools like Vassar/Haverford/Wesleyan to be much stronger.

The good thing about them is their art museum- easily one of the best you'll find on a college campus- and the fact they meet full need with no loans for all students on financial aid. [/quote]

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