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[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]

Last year, Bates took 81%!!!!L of their class ED and had a 50% ED acceptance rate. So yeah— full pay, ED, decent stats— you’re in. [/quote]

DC’s straight shooter college counselor told them that they couldn’t consider  Bates a safety - “they want students who want to be there and they use ED to measure that.” DC liked it but not enough to ED so that was off the list.[/quote]

They like students who are contractually obligated to attend if accepted in order to help them keep their acceptance rate low and yield high.  Hence, they use ED to measure that.

Bates is not a safety because they are happy to reject highly qualified students who have a very low probability of going there if accepted.

Bates stands out to me as a school that is perceived (by virtue of association with other Maine SLACs and its manipulated admissions data) as much more selective than it actually is.  Bates stands out among its UNSWR ranking neighbors with its low endowment.  I think it's no better in any sense than lower ranked PA and OH LACs.  It's a Denison/Lafayette level school IMHO, not Colby/Haverford.

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