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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colby and Davidson and Haverford have low admit rates because they are great schools

But they don’t have an admit nexus with Wesleyan, Carleton and Middlebury because they have different academic cultures[/quote]

can you say more about the academic cultures at each of these schools? [/quote]

My student is at Carleton and didn't apply to any of the others here (actively disliked some)so I can't speak about experience at the others.  Carleton is very academic, but highly collaborative.  My kid is a STEM major and kids work on problem sets together, professors are very accessible and kids go to office hours all the time.  They work hard; kids don't skip class, don't use AI (which is very different from friends' experiences at some ivies).  9 classes per year (trimester system).  All seniors do an intensive thesis.

Who knows how accurate any of this stuff is or what is included in the metrics, but Middlebury gets 99/99 on the Princeton review of academics.  Carleton and Haverford gets 96/99.  The others on this list range from 83 (Davidson) to 90 (Colby and Wesleyan).  It's a big range, so the whatever it's based on I would assume some truth to it.[/quote]

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