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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some Colgate supporters may bristle with this take, but its popularity has crested.[/quote]

As far as Colgate's trajectory, I would encourage people to trust the data and not some fartknocker on a forum. Acceptance rate dropping by 50% every year. SAT and ACT midranges climbing. Doesn't sound like cresting to me.[/quote]

This is true of every top 50 school. The same students applying to more schools, due to FOMO, anxiety or both, are what's forcing acceptance rates down. Colgate isn't unique in this.[/quote]

Even among this general trend, some schools have focused on drawing more applications, driving admit rates down. Colgate has more than doubled its applications over the past 2 years. That’s truly extraordinary.

This is similar to what Colby did a few years earlier. It drove up applications massively, dropping its admit rate to around 8%, lower in some years than Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, etc. Colby is a very good school, but most people wouldn’t rank it above that cohort.[/quote]

Colby is certainly an interesting case. It’s very, very small and in Maine. One of my kids liked it - but didn’t go. Other kids was unwilling to look at a single school in Maine as “too far off the beaten path” for her. Colby’s stats dont really make much sense. Why do so many apparently smart kids apply there?  What’s the appeal. They do t stand out to me for any specific programs or successes. I’d genuinely like to understand. [/quote]

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