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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.

[b]Then you will find that domestic chances of admission are different after WASPB.[/b]

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

Care to provide some evidence for this? I'm pretty sure that you can't but there is plenty of evidence to the contrary regarding international applications skewing acceptance rates. ED is a different animal and harder to decipher because of programs like the ones that you mentioned along with athletes and others.[/quote]
I’m pretty sure that you know nothing about domestic college admissions. Congrats on your irrelevant international point.[/quote]

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