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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colgate's admission rate this year was about 17% - low, but not quite in Amherst/Williams/Midd territory despite huge increase in applications.
Part of what's driving the spike in numbers at many competitive schools is applications from non-score-reporting applicants who would not previously have applied. And some of these applicants are shotgunning 20, 30+ applications just to see what sticks. Which means, at many schools, accepted students will have more options and yield will trend down. So the decline in admission rates is not linear.[/quote]

Nope. Admission rate was 12% for class of 2026. [/quote]

Where are those numbers?  The school reported 17% but has not send out its CDS yet.[/quote]

Kickstart.

But the 12% number makes sense. Colgate received 21,000+ applications this year, which is a record fir them an up 21% over the year before, which was also a record. The number of applications this year was an astonishing 2.5 times greater (146%) than just 2 years ago.

Given that they received 21,000 applications, it isn’t hard to do the math that results in 12% because they are going to accept about the same number of students as they did the year before.[/quote]

I thought the "astonishing" increase a couple of years ago coincided with their move to the common app. [/quote]

A large application increase can happen more than once - and did at Colgate it appears. [/quote]

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