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It's one of only 10 colleges that are need-blind for international students, so a lot of needy kids throw their hat in the ring, likely not realizing they have a 1.4% chance of acceptance. 
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The interesting thing is that the large number of applications from international students is not at all restricted to need-blind/meets full need SLACs like Bowdoin and Amherst. Other good SLACs like Haverford, Carleton, and Hamilton that don’t have this admission policy and that publish the international student data in their CDS’s have just as large a proportion of international apps and admit about the same proportion of those. Schools like Williams, Swarthmore, and Pomona that have comparable resources to Amherst and Bowdoin don’t publish their international applicant data, but I’d expect it to show the same thing. I think that all these schools are just popular with a certain strata of foreign families, many of whom probably don’t care about need-blind.[/quote]

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