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[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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Middlebury is more than 50% larger than Bowdoin. If Middlebury had 950 fewer seats to fill, I'm sure they could be as rejective as Bowdoin. In terms of stats, their incoming classes are remarkably similar.

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What an insipid remark. If Midd were an entirely different school, it would have the acceptance rate of an entirely different school. [/quote]

Except they're not that different. In the SLAC world, the universe of people who know about these smaller schools and end up applying to them is quite small compared to larger universities. An increase in size doesn't automatically mean an increase in applicant pool. If applicant size remains about the same and school size increases, guess what also goes up? Acceptance rate. The point is that SAT medians and ACT medians are quite similar for Middlebury and Bowdoin. [/quote]

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