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[quote=Anonymous]What’s highly selective? Bates crosses with Colby and Bowdoin etc. All those schools have sub-15% admit rates. Our counselor showed us that Bates had 12000 apps this year for like 525 spots. At those schools, they don’t need to tuition discount to yield a class. And so they don’t. Neatly everyone at those schools is full pay, was full pay for prep / private school, and even pre-K. Hypothetical merit aid has zero bearing on admissions decisions for nearly all of those kids and families.

CC doesn’t cross with those schools. Mostly they are battling with California and west coast schools to fill their class. They didn’t make their class about 3 or 4 cycles ago, which their CDS data shows. So nothing really new here. They are trying to figure it out. There is nothing to suggest a rush to tuition discounting. Instead the article says they want to focus recruitment to other regions. Which sorta makes sense when you think about it.

You have to look at schools that compete for students with each other and then measure them to derive any insights. Skidmore competes with St. Lawrence and Union — what do those three schools have in common? Tuition discounting and very similar admit rates.

Kenyon competes with Midwest schools — you need to see how they compare.

You can’t compare Kenyon to CC when they are not really competing to yield the same student class. Or Bates to Kenyon for that matter. And you need to understand the admissions dynamics for each school — again, CC missed its class a few years ago so nothing new here as they try to refocus on what works for them.

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