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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]full pay male, humanities, 1530 SAT

hoping for WASP, Midd, Dartmouth, Bowdoin

Our Naviance is not very telling, except for Dartmouth. They seem to really lean on GPA so that's out.

I can discount obvious outliers (mostly athletes), but does anyone know which of the above SLACs will care more about great LOR and compelling essays over ECs?  He has really strong in-school ECs but not much out of school. But school leadership, for sure. [/quote]
There are the typical humanities -- English, history, and philosophy -- and there are the others where more of a bump can be expected. Which type are we talking about? I think SLACs have been a little slower to get on the humanities bump bandwagon than universities and you will probably have better luck outside the SLAC world.

Yes, you can ED to Midd with a good chance of acceptance, but an ED1 to WAS or Bowdoin is probably a waste -- an ED to Dartmouth is still probably more desirable than those, meaning if you think Dartmouth is undesirable, all of these are.

Leave the non-Midd top SLACs to ED, and think about other options.

Such as: apply Midd ED2 or ED2, incorporate some mid-size unis into the process, apply both ED1 and ED2 somewhere, and if still around during RD time maybe WAS or Bowdoin will take you. [/quote]

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