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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would be more interested in hearing one example of a kid with strong academics who is full pay and got rejected. I doubt it exists.[/quote]

I haven’t seen it in ED, but a few kids I know from our private with the high stats got rejected in RD last year.  Bates is not a safety. [/quote]
It's much harder to get in RD than ED. Don't they fill half their class - or close to half - during the ED rounds?[/quote]

Bates filled **81%** of their class with ED last year. It’s such a ridiculous stat that our head of college guidance couldn’t help but giggle in his presentation. So yeah, not a safety in RD for anyone. [/quote]

I thought that was a few years ago and they had since changed their approach. I imagine it’s still well north of 50% but I thought they realized that the 80% discourages applications - and no school wants that. I think 2022 was about 60%. I think Tulane was similarly backing off this approach a little but then Middlebury went all in. [/quote]

You're right PP, the 81% number is wrong or from a different year. I just looked at the most recent Common Data Set info (22-23) and the proportion seems to be around 60% of Bates students were admitted via ED - 314 admitted via ED for an entering class that totalled 518. By comparison Middlebury accepted 439 students via ED and had a total entering class of 639 - so about 68%. Bowdoin was lower, about 52% of the enrolled first-years were admitted via ED (267 out of 508.) I can't find a CDS for Colby. But I wonder if there are any small LACs that *don't* rely heavily on ED to fill their entering class?[/quote]

40-45% seems to be the floor.[/quote]

Which makes sense given the percentage of recruited athletes at these small schools. [/quote]

I think there are a lot more walk ons at some of these schools versus true recruits. Maybe half the athletes are truly recruits. [/quote]

That can’t possibly be true for NESCAC.[/quote]

It varies by school and by sport. Several NESCAC swim teams have walk ons, for example, and I would guess zero hockey teams do. [/quote]

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