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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is interesting. I combined the 2 lists and focused in on some of the usual suspects.

Liberal Arts Colleges: Accepts/applicants
Amherst: 12 of 67
Williams: 11 of 64
Pomona 3 of 63
Swarthmore: 11 of 97
Davidson: 11 of 43
Middlebury: 12 of 58

Wow, look at that crazy Pomona acceptance rate. Surprised to see Swarthmore with 50% more applications than just about any of its peers. Maybe kids don't want to be at a small school way out in the country, but they're willing to consider one closer to a city? Not surprised by the low application totals though - it's definitely a self-selecting group that wants a small school.

Universities: Admit/Applied
Brown: 29 of 295
Columbia: 19 of 268
Cornell: 68 of 463
Dartmouth: 13 of 163
Harvard: 16 of 277
Princeton: 21 of 307
Penn: 36 of 441
Stanford: 16 of 296
U of Chicago: 23 of 221
Yale: 30 of 296

High app totals for Penn. Maybe it's the popularity of Wharton among young men? And look at Cornell - maybe people take a shot at an Ivy acceptance by throwing in an application there? With such similar application totals, it's a little hard to escape the feeling that the same bunch of kids were applying to Brown, Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and Yale.[/quote]

The bigger the school, the more apps you're going to see. Penn and Cornell are the two biggest Ivies and received similar numbers of applications. And yes, I'm sure there's a huge overlap of applicants. [/quote]

To see if this is interesting, you would need to see similar data from CA or IL. The last data I saw, estimated 40% of Stanford is from CA. So no surprise that the NE schools are getting more applicants from Bethesda[/quote]

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