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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a huge believer and proponent of the SLAC model, but really do worry that name recognition will be a handicap throughout life.  The exceptions are probably limited to only Williams and Amherst imo, and unfortunately those will be a crapshoot for my unhooked high stats kid.  Do either of those schools try to yield protect during RD by rejecting ivy-looking kids? May call me myopic or narrow minded, but I’ve told him those are the only 2 SLACs he can apply to [/quote]
Your kid will not get into Williams/Amherst without a hook. [/quote]

My kid’s paid college advisor told us that every year there are about 50-75 unhooked spots at each of these two schools.  And about 15,000 applications at each. So what I’m telling you is, there IS a chance!  LoL. [/quote]

I call bs on those numbers - that simply can’t be true [/quote]

250 athletes (50 percent), 75-100 Posse, other FGLIs and geographic diversity, 75-100 relevant legacies and other VIPs. [/quote]
Neither Williams or Posse students to posse and posse isn’t even FGLI; it’s a merit scholarship. And no liberal arts college accepts more than about 20 or so posse scholars a year. Williams has not released an official number of legacies or vips, and similar liberal arts colleges have no where near 75 students in a single class at legacy (peer CMC only gave admission to 15 legacy students: [url]https://tsl.news/5c-students-weigh-in-as-california-ends-legacy-admissions/amp/[/url]). So you’ve just made up a bunch of crap.[/quote]

So out of 15,000 applications and 50 percent athletes and 25 percent FGLI (FG and/or LI) and a class enrollment of ~500, exactly how many unhooked spots are there?  [/quote]
Way more than you’re willing to admit.[/quote]

Seriously, offer up a number if you don’t agree with mine.  My daughter was heavily recruited for a sport at Amherst but passed and ended up at an Ivy.  My next child looked at the school during that time and loved it. Better grades and test scores than the older but we realized she could not get in and in fact our school’s Naviance scattergram showed no one had ever gotten in without a sport. Our school does not have FGLI kids but it can produce athletes.  I had no idea how selective it was until I took that deep dive.

So what is your number?[/quote]

My kid got in from a public magnet, with nothing but very high stats. [/quote]

Congratulations.  She won the lottery.  If there are 375 athletes and FGLIs combined and no other hooked kids, that leaves ~125 spots.  Assume you also have very conservatively 25 VIPs to keep happy too, so you need to fill 100 unhooked spots.  Assume you admit 200 to get 100. And you have 15,000 applications to choose from. It means that Amherst’s real acceptance rate is ~1.3%.

The point is, only an idiot would tell their child they can’t go to a SLAC unless it’s Williams or Amherst. Unless they just don’t want them to go to a SLAC, and they want to find the meanest way possible to tell their child that.  [/quote]

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