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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Davidson is hard to get into?[/quote]

Depends on whether you think 14% admit rate is hard to get into?  :roll: [/quote]

The recent admissions rate was 20%.  And that is a "manufactured" Wash-U rate, driven by attracting 100% no-go's.[/quote]

Really? How so? I actually think they could do more of that manufacturing as many of their NESCAC peers do if they dropped their multiple supplemental essays and the additional peer recommendation letter. [/quote]

Davidson is one of the rare schools that requires a letter of recommendation from an applicant's peer (Dartmouth does as well). I'd advise the OP's daughter to apply ED since the odds seem so much more favorable even if you factor in all the D1 athletic recruits.  Even though Davidson is a D1 school, it has a lower % of athletes on campus than similarly sized NESCAC schools.

As an aside, Selingo's book Who Gets In and Why is a fascinating read.  He had behind the scenes access to admissions at Emory, Univ of Washington and to a lesser extent Davidson. [/quote]

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