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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Probably outdated here on some of these but here’s some wild guesses:

UMiami
Tulane 
GWU
Syracuse 
Hobart and William Smith
Connecticut College
U of Vermont
Trinity College
Penn State
Hampden-Sydney
Mount Holyoke[/quote]

Tulane had an admit rate for the '25 class of 9.73%. They dropped their honors college because the caliber of student is growing by leaps and bounds. [/quote]

Tulane's SATs look really stellar, but they became SAT optional a few years ago--any word on how many student actually submit SATs there?[/quote]

This list is dead on for “schools rich families won’t be embarrassed to send their kids.  Add all SEC schools, Sewanee, UC Boulder TCU and SMU - lots of different levels of students at these schools with a rich undercurrent. [/quote]
Hmm...probably depends on the family and area of the country? And political/religious leanings? I can't see most parents of a bottom-of-the-class Sidwell or GDS kid being all too enthused about Alabama or Mississippi State or Ole Miss or Arkansas or LSU. [b]I feel like those kids are more likely to go to like...Denison.[/b] [/quote]

[b]Denison has a 29% acceptance rate.[/b] Bottom of the class (even at Sidwell or GDS) isn't guaranteed to get in there anymore.[/quote]

[b]What you’re missing is that’s the average between RD and ED. For ED it’s much higher. Add in test optional + attending boarding schools that don’t do class rank[/b] (my public high school would put on your transcript whether you were ranked #1 or #500) and it’s not hard to understand. [/quote]

PP you're responding to, and I'm not missing anything. I went to a boarding school that "didn't rank", which means that they did rank, they just didn't tell us our exact rank, nor did they tell colleges. But they would give a range, or a chart of GPA vs. rank percentiles. I know I was in the top half, but not the top quarter of the class, and I guarantee that colleges knew that as well. And test optional means that grades matter *more*, not less, so it's not really helpful for a kid with mediocre grades.

Also, I know no one who is going to a school like Sidwell or GDS who is using their one shot at ED on... Denison.[/quote]

This acceptance rate is meaningless without the of the actual profile of admitted students.  Don't keep trying to confuse people.  Low acceptance rates only matter if the profile is equally selective. Otherwise it's just a popular safety.[/quote]

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