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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If anyone has a HS junior with a strong interest in attending Davidson, there might be a secret sauce to improving their chances of getting admitted-- Davidson's July Experience program where rising seniors live on campus and take 2 classes taught by Davidson professors. July Experience has been put on hold since 2020 but hopefully will start up again next summer. The program gives high school students a taste of what the college experience is like at Davidson, and Davidson gets to evaluate potential applicants up close and personal for 3 weeks. In the past, the great majority of students who successfully completed JE and later applied early decision were admitted.[/quote]

And you think JE completion meaningfully helped admission? It could also be that those choosing to do the JE are HS juniors with grades / resumes for Davidson to be a match, and then they apply early, with good chances to get in. One doesn't preclude the other of course, but honestly curious what the value of JE would be.      [/quote]

True. However, JE attendees seemed to get an outsize boost when applying. Author Jeff Selingo in his book "Who Gets In and Why" describes one borderline Davidson applicant who got accepted in large part due to having attended JE. Also, on the first day of the program, the resident counselor on my child's floor told the students (off the record) that there was an 80+% acceptance rate into Davidson for kids who completed the JE program.  The RC warned kids not to do anything stupid to get booted from the program. And indeed a couple kids in another dorm did get kicked out for drinking and skipping classes. I know it's anecdotal but my child said everyone they met from JE who applied early to Davidson got in.

A short video on the July Experience program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkqutEFlekI[/quote]

Very useful. Thanks![/quote]

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