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Bowdoin is a great school, and I personally think it's right there with WASP. That said, its acceptance rate is slightly skewed by the facts that it has a larger percentage of international applicants (~36%) who are admitted at an extremely low rate (under 2%). This is due to the fact that Bowdoin is one of the very few schools that is need blind for internationals. [/quote]

Amherst and Bowdoin (maybe CMC and Carleton too?) are the only elite SLACs that I know of that filled out the international application and acceptance rate fields in their most recent CDS. No reason to believe that all their peer schools that didn’t supply this information aren’t also benefitting from the same degree of “selectivity prestige” due to a flood of basically hopeless foreign applications. By the way, this is also true (to a somewhat lesser extent) for many of the top 20 universities as well. So if you’re a US applicant, the odds are not really as dire as they appear.[/quote]
FTR, I don't have a dog in this fight. I agree that all selective schools benefit from some selectivity prestige due to hopeless international applications. But I suspect that Bowdoin's and Amherst's admission rates are pushed down even a little lower (maybe 1-2%) that their peers due to their need-blind-for-internationals policy, which is likely to lead to an even greater portion of international applications. Only 9 schools are need-blind for internationals, and Bowdoin and Amherst are two of them. Again, not a knock on Bowdoin or Amherst. To the points being made above, admission rate by itself isn't dispositive of selectivity. [/quote]

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