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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it just me or does it seem like this school's stock has been rising lately?[/quote]

I'd agree. Ages ago in the late 1980s nobody from the Cathedral schools applied.  I hadn't even heard of Davidson back then.[/quote]

That must have changed fairly soon after you graduated then. I actually know 4 people who graduated from the Cathedral schools in the 1990s who went to Davidson (& I didn't even go to NCS or Davidson!).[/quote]

Agreed. Was looking at colleges in the early 1990s and plenty of people were interested in Davidson. In those days it had acceptance rates around 35-40%, I believe. Which was considered competitive by LAC standards. It was known as a very good LAC and popular with upper middle class kids looking for a low key, relaxed atmosphere with better weather than the Maine LACs.

All the top 25 or so LACs are just as well known today as they were 25 years ago. It's a self-selective pool, heavily dominated by upper middle class kids from suburban publics and private schools. [/quote]

Wow. 35-40%?? Even by the mid-'90s, the acceptance rate was much lower than that![/quote]

Only Amherst / Williams /Swarthmore could have had admissions rates below 30%. The next tier of LACs were solidly in the 30s, even 40s. Places like Kenyon and Oberlin were above 50%.

As a reference, Chicago admitted around 65-70% of its applicants in the mid 1990s.

I found this via googling:

From my dog-eared 1997 edition of USN&WR. SAT scores were the recentered (current) scale.

Yale 20% Admission Rate 1350-1550 25th-75th percentile SAT range
Columbia 24% Admitted 1341-1438 Range
Penn 33% Admitted 1370-1440 Range
WashU 56% Admitted 1180-1380 Range
USC 70% Admitted 1070-1310 Range
Chicago 71% Admitted 1270-1470 Range

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/501950-old-acceptance-rates.html

LACs would have had higher admissions rates than comparable universities. 
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