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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS and I also visited. We sat with a couple of professors at the lunch, and they impressed him. DS liked it and is applying, but it is a super-safety for him. The student who showed us around was lovely. She's studying to be a teacher. (My thought: her parents are paying a lot of money for her to become a teacher.) She told us that she knew she wanted to go to CC because the cherry blossoms were in bloom when she visited, and it was beautiful. An alum who was on campus that day stopped us and reminisced about his pre-college visit. He saw bunnies playing on the lawn and knew he wanted to attend CC. The lovely student who showed us around said that people tend to stay on campus on the weekends. She asked how large DS's high school is (larger than CC) and offered that her high school had less than 100 students. I don't recall seeing anyone who wasn't White.

My takeaway was that it is an expensive, cloistered environment where the students don't typically hop on the train and go to NY or Boston on the weekends despite the proximity of those locations. [/quote]

Based on your reply he is high stats and likely to be accepted - but to be clear: [b]no school with a 38% acceptance rate is a "super-safety" for anyone[/b].  Especially a school that only admits 2500 people and has a slightly lower RD rate (30% for males last year).  I

The intention of this post is not to throw shade on your kids chances, but rather to avoid people mis-qualifying safeties. I wish him luck and hope he gets his first choice.[/quote]

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