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[quote=Anonymous]ED stats are very misleading, especially for LACs. These schools are already small, traditionally accepting 1,000 people out of 15,000 applicants, and a significant amount of that accepted pool are athletes.

Using this site about equity in athletics - [u]https://ope.ed.gov/athletics/#/institution/details[/u] - 
about 32.6% of (the totally randomly chosen) Swarthmore's class are athletes. Divided by 4, that's about 134 athletes per class. Backing up that claim is Swarthmore's Class of 2027 being 29% student athletes.

In 2023, 216 early decision applicants out of 1,358 were admitted. Without accounting for athletes, that's an acceptance rate of 15.9%. With the estimated number of 134 athletes admitted per class, the ED acceptance rate is 6%. Using the Co2027 rate, it's 7%. Either way, under half of the overall ED acceptance rate and more akin to the 2023 RD round's 6%.

As a disclaimer, I cannot confidently say that every student counted as an athlete applied early decision. However, even with more conservative estimates (80 instead of 134 or 120) the early decision acceptance rate is around 10%.

At LACS, even ones known for their equitable admissions towards FGLI students like Swarthmore, recruited athletics are a huge part of their ED pool.

TLDR: So don't waste your ED on a SLAC (Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Pomona, CMC) unless you are hooked in some way: FGLI, recruited athlete, Questbridge or legacy/donor.

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