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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Vassar kids are quirky, kind of artsy (even if majoring in math or history). Kids from NYC schools like St. Ann's. Lots of future academics. [b]Just shy of getting into Brown.[/b]

Middlebury is waspy and preppy. Mid-ranked kids from top NYC privates, Darien, Bronxville, etc. [b]Bright but not quite Ivy bright (this is not an insult).[/b] Sporty. More pre-professional.

They are two pretty different places.[/quote]

They are two very different places but they don’t give up anything to each other or the Ivies. Checking the latest info both have test and GPA ranges that are basically identical to Dartmouth.

[b]The top SLACs are academic peers of any T10[/b].[/quote]
It used to be the case that the students were the same academic quality, but I don’t think that is any longer true:

Top unhooked kids now know that applying ED to Amherst and Williams is a waste. These kids apply ED1 and ED2 elsewhere. They are gone by the RD round and Williams and Amherst never see them. Meanwhile, those few top unhooked kids who are still around at RD are not yielding to Williams and Amherst if admitted: they go Ivy. The bottom line is that Williams and Amherst used to get their top unhooked applicants in the early round, back when ED was an advantage; but now that it is a disadvantage, they are gone.

Overall student academic quality has only taken as slight step down, but there is nothing to stop further decline without reducing the number of recruited athletes, opening up an ED2 round, or taking a much higher percentage of the class ED to bring the top unhooked students back. The fact that they are in this dilemma gets no sympathy from me: they are being hoist by their athletics petard.
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I just pulled some CDS data and took a look at Dartmouth and Cornell profiles. Vassar, Midd, and the two ivies almost completely overlap. Vassar has a much higher acceptance rate but student quality looks equivalent.[/quote]

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