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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colby gets twice as many applications as Bowdoin.  Is that because Colby is so much more in demand or because it is a much better school? NOPE.  It is because Colby doesn't have an application fee.  No supplemental essays and test optional, too. 
Just hit send on your Common App.  Makes it really, really easy for them to lower their acceptance rate.  And while that won't push them up in the USNWR rankings anymore, there are plenty of people out there (and on here) that think acceptance rate is important.  When we visited Colby a few years ago they could not stop talking about their 9% acceptance rate (they must have said it ten times and it was written on the whiteboard behind the AO presenting for the info session) as they pushed ED applications.  I'm not saying it isn't a good school - it is.  But they have played the game well![/quote]

Here’s the earlier post re: bragging about acceptance rate.[/quote]

A college tells kids the acceptance rate AT AN INFORMATION SESSION and to you that is bragging.

A college tells kids that the rate is low and recommends they apply ED if it is their first choice - as virtually every colleges does in their information session - and that is somehow done for the sole purpose of stroking their own ego in front of 60 people who drove up to Maine.

Do you realize how ridiculous those accusations sound?

I suppose they were also "bragging" about their new athletic facility, and "bragging" about everything else they do?

Jumpin jeebus on a pogo stick this forum is so ridiculous.[/quote]

Geez, this really got you worked up! I'm not the poster who said Colby was bragging but rather the poster who shared my experience at Colby.  And to us, yes, it did feel like they were overemphasizing their acceptance rate.  I don't know that I'd call it bragging but they did say many times "we are very proud of our 9% acceptance rate."  And yes, to remind us all, they wrote it on the whiteboard.  This was after having the info session participants play a guessing game about the acceptance rate.  Really.  And all of this happened even before taking us on a tour.  We'd visited many, many schools at this point, including several of the other NESCACs and no other school did anything like this.  We just found it odd.  We have a younger kid who is looking at colleges now.  My husband and I still joke when we are researching schools with him - "sure it looks like a nice school but does it have a 9% acceptance rate?"  So, yes, that's what stood out to us about Colby.  I don't remember much else besides that and the very nice Questbridge scholarship student who gave our tour and happened to be from our hometown. None of this means that Colby isn't a good school - it is a very good school. This is just an anecdote.  No one is forcing you to read this forum if you find it so ridiculous.  [/quote]

I patriciate in the forum for many reasons, one of which is to point out ridiculous misinformation that could color the judgement of someone considering Colby.  And FYI I did not attend nor has my family attended.[/quote]

Anyone who takes this anonymous forum seriously, deserves all they get. Just brush it off as mildly entertaining and don’t react. Nobody’s crossing Colby (or any other college) off their list as a result of some comments that could originate from a 14 year old locked in the basement.[/quote]

So shut up and let the misinformation dominate?  Buyer beware?

No thank you.[/quote]

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