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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]no skin in this game, just coming to say our Davidson tour was one of the top 5 of the 18 we did. There were 2 students and they were wonderful. In the end wanted a little bigger and super rigorous, but make no mistake Davidson gets a great cohort of bright kids. They are more intellectual on ave than the ones who end up at Wake or W&L and to a lesser degree Uva. 
Davidson admits 5-7 kids from the private each year and 3-4 attend. The students who attend have picked it over Vandy, Gtown, UVA, swat, middlebury. The ones who get in RD and go elsewhere have picked Dartmouth, Penn, Stanford, Amherst, and UVA. In other words students who consider it enough to apply often are considering and admitted to highly academic schools.[/quote]

Great school, but takes about 80 percent of kids  who applies from our private (a few in top 20 percent in class, but most just in top half).  Definitely way easier admit than any other school you named.[/quote]

It’s a perfectly good school but I think this comment and OP’s observations get at the heart of the kind of place it is. It attracts pretty basic kids. Inoffensive, nice, not dumb, but basic.[/quote]

Adding that it pretty much tracks W&L from our school in terms of selectivity or somewhere like Grinnell.[/quote]
This seems to comport with broader statistical analysis. In this site, for example, W&L placed 44th nationally by Selectivity Rank, and Davidson placed similarly, at 49th:

https://wallethub.com/edu/e/college-rankings/40750[/quote]

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