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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]bloody hell i roughly checked the acceptance rate for W-L....18%?? It's as tough to get into there as Georgetown or Hopkins and tougher than Haverford, Emory, and Carnegie Mellon?

That's crazy. [/quote]

Pomona is 14%, Bowdoin is 16% - welcome to the world of college admissions. It's not like it was when you went to college. [/quote]

I'm not that far removed from undergrad so I know how tough the landscape has been the last 5 years given demographic bubble, more intense marketing campaigns by schools, and common app lowering barriers to applications by making it much smoother/easier to apply to a million schools.

Plus Pomona one could argue is the top LAC given it's academically as good as the top 3 and has a hell of a lot better location, drop dead gorgeous weather, and ultra laid-back personality...and is located in the most populous state in the country..so 14% seems actually higher than what i would've guessed it would be.

Bowdoin is also a top New England LAC.

Is W&L in the same league really as Pomona and Bowdoin and at the same level of Georgetown?

What's the cause of their low acceptance rate? Has it become a super-hot school or is giving truckloads of grant money?

Have they become better at branding themselves like Chicago? just 10 years ago chicago was running 35-40% acceptance rates...now it's below 10 i believe. To use a markets term, their 'alpha' when it comes to driving acceptance rates lower is higher than the average elite school.[/quote]

USNews ranks Pomona at 4, Bowdoin at 6 and W&L at 14 so yes it is in the same league.[/quote]

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