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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Fit matters a lot more, so visit— and start early to get an informed list. Many SLAC are excellent at a few areas, but not all areas.  [/b]

Demonstrated interest can matter more, because they know that fit is important.

IDK what your 5 applications for every one state U thing is about.  They have a smaller applicant pool and take fewer kids and end up with an admit rate on par with larger privates.  Smaller numerator AND denominator. Same admit rate.

ED can matter a lot. Some SLACs take as much as 80% of their class ED. Bates was on DD’s list so it comes to mind. The year before she applied, they took 80% of the class ED and had a 50%+ ED admit rate. And then like 10% RD admit rate (or lower) for the other 20% of the class— which totaled like 80 seats. They are not the only SLAC that does this.

Figure out what a SLAC is and is not. Smaller environment, small classes, campus centric (kids often stay on campus all 4 years), many are rural. May require a more broad based classic liberal arts set of classes no matter what you major in.

[b]Figure out of you are chasing merit/ need merit or not and whether you kid is more comfortable in a midwestern SLAC environment or a NESAC environment.[/b] [/quote]

+1. All of this.  We found that by the time the college preferences around cost, location, size, potential fields of study were factored in, to get to a balanced list, they had to expand beyond their preferences.  For financial reasons they added two in-state and an OOS public university and they had a private LAC that was further away.  If we had been in a financial situation to ED and include NESAC schools, the list would have been different but the process would have been similar.

In the end, they ended up at a school that was a low reach that was 100% match to what they were looking for when they used one of those high school tools to help find colleges.  They had strong essays and demonstrated interest along with being academically competitive.

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