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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Connecticut College will be shielded from the massive federal grant cuts underway and continuing into the future so the issue plaguing colleges like the University of Michigan don't affect it.  It receives very little funding.

However (and this is a HUGE however):

Applications received and SAT  (25%/75%
2021: 7,682 1353-1450
2022: 8,744 1180-1300
2023: 9,397 1170-1370
2024: 7,937 1160-1400

Stagnant or declining applications and declining SAT scores.  All competitive or "prestige" colleges have seen huge increases in both.

To be the outlier should question what is different about Conn College compared to what used to be considered its peers?  Once your college starts to backslide it is hard to right the ship.

If its perception as just an "average" college which charges $92,000 a year, who will want to pay that premium?[/quote]

You can’t really draw conclusions from COVID era and so few years.  Conn has CDS posted for the past 10 years. In 2016, 2017, they had around 5000-6000 applicants, so overall their applicant numbers have increased pretty significantly over that period.

And one thing about Conn is that it doesn’t really care that much about its selectivity stats. It doesn’t play the games some schools do trying to pump up application numbers with no supplemental essays and no application fees.  It doesn’t try to cultivate its selectivity numbers by accepting almost all of its class ED and waitlisting RD applicants and then handpicking them off the WL.  It isn’t trying to be something it isn’t.

Finally, it offers significant discounts in the form of merit aid to almost all its students, so full-pay students are paying $55,000 or $60,000 while they would be paying $90,000 at Bates or Colby.

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You're just making things up!  Applying to Conn is FREE!  There are NO supplemental essays.  And they will dangle tens of thousands of dollars in "merit" aid to applicants with no financial need. And even with all that, few kids apply and very few say yes when offered admissions.

The conclusion should be that this is a college that should get its butt in gear quickly so it doesn't fall even further behind.  [/quote]

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