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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]so it’s all about no app fee? wes amd midd have no supps and don’t get these numbers. could they be fudging numbers?[/quote]

Also, Hamilton, Grinnell, Colgate have no supps as well.[/quote]

As far as I can tell, none of these schools do tons of marketing to prospective students, nor do they push people to apply ED or spend a lot of time talking about their acceptance rates (or at least Wesleyan and Midd don’t, the two we’ve toured).

Sounds like the application fee is just one element of Colby’s game.[/quote]

Grinnell has both no supps, no fee.

I agree the Colby's game. but for last several years, Colby's yields were pretty good. Last year was around 54%.
I think the high yield means a lot. If people apply only for no fee and no supps, the yield shouldn't be this high comparing with other SLACs.

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Or, high yield means they take a ton of kids ED.  If you take 80% of the class ED, and they have close to 100% yield, that’s a lot different from yield perspective than taking 40% ED.  Just ask Bates.

And without the CDS, we don’t know, do we? [/quote]

Selectivity is function of acceptance rate + yield rate + student caliber.
If the school can fill up with high caliber kids and have low acceptance rate and high yield(ED or not), then the school is indeed selective. High stat kids choosing the school as 1st choice(ED) means something.

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Nobody is saying that Colby is not selective, only that it is 1) not nearly as selective as its admissions rate alone would indicate and 2) its refusal to share % of class filled ED (which selectivity is a function of; you conveniently left that out) is sketchy and merits the assumption that this percentage is much higher than its peers.[/quote]

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