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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 loved Amherst when I visited a million years ago, so I'd ED there. Although I didn't see Swarthmore and I think I might have loved it too.

But if I had a kid who had so little opinion on geography etc . . . that they were asking this, I'd have them ED to a SLAC that was also excellent and a little easier to get into.  [b]Grinnell or Middlebury [/b]or something.  (I don't have a kid who wants SLAC so I am not that knowledgeable).  Why pick a WASP?[/quote]
Absolutely. Go down a rung and ED might actually help. (Bowdoin is not down a rung.)[/quote]

Bowdoin’s stats are nearly identical to Middlebury’s. Biggest difference is that Middlebury is much larger. [/quote]

Latest admissions cycle:
Bowdoin acceptance rate: 6.8%
Middlebury acceptance rate: 13.99%

Bowdoin ED acceptance rate:14.8%
Middlebury ED acceptance rate: 30.5%
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Bowdoin's acceptance rate is artificially deflated because of their  need blind policies for international students. They get about 3000 excess applications from international students because of this policy. The same issue holds for Williams, Amherst, the Ivies and other need blind for internationals schools. About 42-45% of Bowdoin's applications are international in a typical year. Domestic applicants have a 12% acceptance rate.

If you normalize of financial aid you will find that all of the top SLACs have a 10-12% admissions rate and the rate for the Ivies is 7-10%.[/quote]

but the ivies are also need blind for international. so what's to normalize?[/quote]
What this person is saying is that poorer schools, endowment wise, are somehow better than you think because they can’t afford to go need blind for internationals. Gee, that’s certainly one way to look at it…[/quote]

Other way around. The need blind schools aren’t nearly as selective as they appear because they draw huge numbers of international applications but only take a very tiny portion of them which “artificially” skews their numbers.[/quote]
You still don’t get it. I will try to be more succinct: Domestic students. Admissions. WASPB harder.[/quote]

Keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better. [/quote]
Trying to not let students feel worse when they make an ill-advised ED app to WASPB when they could have done an ED1 and gotten into Carleton, Wes, or Midd. But you do you.[/quote]

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