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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bowdoin and Amherst acceptance rates are artificially low because they are need blind for international students. This adds a couple of thousand extra applications every year. Bowdoins acceptance rates for internationals is under 2% but the application numbers pad things making them look a bit selective more than they are.[/quote]

I still think it’s an insanely tough admit for DMV kids. I feel like recruited athletes and legacies are demographically similar to many DMV applicants and they need to fill those few remaining unhooked spots with different types of kids and not just ones from the same high performing urban centers.[/quote]

I was surprised to see that BCC sent 7 kids there last year. I have no idea if any are athletes or legacies.[/quote]

Seven were admitted, or attended? My kid's magnet typically gets several admits, and 0-1 attend. Not a popular application at his school, though the past few years one has applied ED and gotten in. Then no more acceptances that year.

My kid liked Bowdoin, too, for the reason most kids like Bowdoin over other SLACs: the rep for great food and dorms. [b]Ultimately preferred a WASP school[/b], and there now, but it was a tough decision for the ED application. The STEM tour at the WASP and slight location preference tipped her at the last minute.
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Must be a typo; surely you meant “ultimately preferred another WASP-B school”[/quote]

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