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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]However, he demonstrated strong interest [/quote]

Which Bowdoin says they don’t care about…[/quote]

Bowdoin does consider interest according to CDS and our CCO. [/quote]

That's interesting since the Director of Admissions stated they don't track interest, in the info session. Also Bowdoin slashed their ED admit rate last year. Historically around 30%, last year 17%. Guarantee that 17% included few to no unhooked kids.[/quote]
With these ED numbers, the top SLACs will increasingly see a decline in the quality of their top-notch, non-hooked applicants. Why? Because these applicants will wisely forego ED at these schools and instead use their ED card at the lower Ivies or the Vanderbilts and Northwestern’s of the world. Many will get in. The top SLACs will miss these top tier students. Sure, they will still have plenty of first gen and decent students. But the brilliant ones who were miles above the athletes will be gone. Perversely, the athletes, who are themselves “good” students, will no longer be overmatched; they will be amongst the best students these schools have. And, no, that’s not a good thing..[/quote]

That's exactly right. Bright and accomplished students - especially the unhooked - who are applying to top schools almost always apply ED now. Even the middle class since the financial aid is generally very good at T20 private colleges. Colleges that refuse to consider these brilliant but unhooked applicants in the early round will lose these students to Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Duke, Rice, Chicago, Northwestern, Cornell, and the other top schools that do take a considerable amount of unhooked applicants in the ED/SCEA round.

It's surprising that Bowdoin chooses not to take more in the ED round. They may think it's more equitable to only consider Regular Decision, but in the end they are simply reducing the quality of applicants. You can get away with it if you are MIT or Stanford. But that's not Bowdoin. Or any SLAC for that matter.    [/quote]

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