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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good grief. Do you know how easy it is to send off 15 applications today with the Common app? High stats kids apply everywhere. Of course the schools latch onto to those ADMIT stats. The more important stats should be the students ATTENDING the college.[/quote]

Yep. It's largely the same pool of applicants applying to all the highly selective colleges. I know a gazillion kids who applied to both the ivies AND Pomona or other LACs, like my own current Columbia student. (Pomona's essay question 4 years ago was to write about something interesting on your street.) I also know kids attending Amherst and Middlebury because they didn't get into HYPS. There are simply too many highly qualified kids with great stats and ECs, and they're all anxious and shooting off many Common App applications.

If you want to make an argument for LACs being harder to get into than meets the eye,  you should look closely at the individual LACs. For example, I read that Amherst recruits heavily for sports and a large share of the supposed entry seats are actually taken by recruited athletes. This probably translates into lower "effective" admissions rates there.[/quote]

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