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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]

This phenomenon is by no means limited to the more exclusive need blind SLACs like Amherst and Bowdoin (and by extension W, S, and P who do not publicize this data). Many others (e.g Hamilton, Bates, Haverford) included the foreign application and acceptance data in recent CDS and have just as large a proportion of foreign applicants. The SLAC model has been very popular with a certain set of well-to-do foreign students. Of course after this year I expect to see drastic declines in such applications.[/quote]
Yes, absolutely, need blind or not, SLAC or Ivy, internationals have lower acceptance rates. For example, Grinnell is not need blind for internationals, but they have a lot of international students and give aid to many — so a ton of applicants.

But the point is that all of this is irrelevant if you are a domestic student. Then you have to “normalize” for athletes, Questbridge and like programs (admitted ED at nearly a 1:1 ratio), major donors or famous, medium donors plus legacy, first gen not doing Questbridge, geographic diversity, low-performing high schools etc.

Then yield, then percent of class admitted ED, whether there are two ED rounds or one, whether ED is even an advantage etc.

Then you will find that domestic chances of admission are different after WASPB.

In other words, the international gobbledygook is an unnecessary distraction.[/quote]

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