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The received reputations of some of these schools are subject to question after the turmoil of the last 4 years and the flagrantly capricious nature of the USNWR rankings. Bowdoin has long had a better yield rate than any of its SLAC competitors. In the current round it is also more selective than Amherst, Williams, and Swarthmore (Pomona hasn't released their numbers yet). It is substantially more selective in ED, and yes that accounts for the fact that Bowdoin has two ED rounds while Amherst and Williams have only one. Now that Bowdoin reverted to reporting standardized test scores on the CDS the same way that most other schools do, it is apparent that the academic metrics for the student bodies of all of these schools are essentially identical.

This is not to say that these schools are identical in other ways. They are all performing ikebana with their teenage applicants, and it is becoming clear that they may have different goals in mind. The race/ethnicity makeup of Williams and Bowdoin is closer to that of the background demographic than the other schools. Amherst, Swarthmore, and Pomona are overweighting applicants from minority backgrounds, and to some extent foreign applicants. In Bowdoin's case, this difference may be magnified by their "mandate" to take 10% of their class from Maine, which is mostly...white. There are also probably significant differences in the socioeconomic distribution of the students at these schools, but they don't come across as clearly in the data. At any rate, all these schools have large endowments and they are investing this money in their student bodies in different ways. While I would say they were all much of a muchness 10 years ago, it will be interesting to see how their trajectories diverge in the years ahead!

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