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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is that correct? Pomona only accepts about 13% ED and Bowdoin 14%.[/quote]
Yeah, which are good boosts compared to regular.[/quote]
Sigh. Stop comparing apples and oranges. Normalize admit data for Bowdoin’s high athlete percentage. Surprise, surprise: Pomona is more selective.[/quote]

Where do you find the data on high athlete percentage, am I missing something in the Common Data Set? Wouldn't this show up in the ED admit rate?
- parent of '27 student trying to make sense of all of this.[/quote]

We visited Bowdoin this spring and the tour guide told us ~50% athletes. Then there’s a big chunk of non athlete FGLI kids there.  The impression we took away was that there were very few spots available for kids not filling an institutional need. [/quote]

This is true of many other top LACs too. Full of athletes and a smaller portion of FGLI. ED rates look huge but are misleading since most of ED1 is taken up with hooked kids.

DS has great stats and was going to do ED at a top LAC but is now switching to a larger top 30-ish private college that's not a LAC instead. His odds are much better according to his private school CC.[/quote]

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