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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If all this reform talk wasn’t focused on the maybe 40 or so most “elite” schools it might be interesting but it just comes off as more striver prestige whore BS. Sorry your nerd son might have to settle for, dare I say, Emory![/quote]
I think the point is that nerd sons are wisely foregoing ED at Williams or Amherst since well over 80% of the slots go to athletes or first gen. They are “settling” for lower Ivies. [/quote]
Who cares? Sorry but I don’t feel any despair that upper middle class kids in Fairfax are choosing to apply to Dartmouth instead of Williams.[/quote]

Williams should care. The smartest kids a generation or so ago would sometimes go to Williams. Now, the smartest kids do not even apply: these kids are smart enough to know applying ED to Williams is a waste and that they better use their ED card where it might actually help them. Maybe they won’t get into a lower Ivy ED, but the ED application there at least gives a boost. If they are not admitted, they have Chicago, Hopkins, and a host of ED2 options…[/quote]

Very curious if it really was different a generation ago.  I have a senior applying to LACs this year, mostly NESCACs and few others a notch down.  Not an athlete, just a typical high stats kid with leadership ECs.  It will be interesting to see what happens.  Test scores etc are at or above the median at all these schools, but realize they are all still a crapshoot.

Haven’t these schools always had the same size rosters as today and so presumably athletics have always been prioritized?  [/quote]

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