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As a graduate of Colby College (12 years ago), I'm sure your daughter would receive an excellent education at all three schools. Once she's admitted to all, or some of those schools, try to return and do an overnight stay with students in the dorms and try to get her to get a sense of what is the best fit for her. What does she want to major in? What activities does she want to participate in? Do all, or just some, of those three schools have relevant clubs / teams? What does she most feel at home?

Don't know about Colgate and Kenyon but Colby received a 47 percent increase in applications for the class of 2019 over 2018. [/quote]

Did they go on the common application?[/quote]

Colby has used the Common Application for several years, but this year Colby eliminated additional essays on their application. When kids are applying to 10 or 12 colleges, it's enticing not to have to write yet another essay. [/quote]

I can't understand this decision on a college's part.  If I were dean of admissions, I would be adding special essays to help my team determine why applicants were specially interested in my college and whether it would be a mutually beneficial fit.  This is especially important to help determine who is really interested in Colby and OK with spending 4 years in an old Maine mill town versus those who are just lobbing another e-application in.
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I would assume it is because they are trying to increase the amount of applications they receive.  The more applications they receive, the lower the percentage of applicants they need to admit, thus increasing their "selectivity" and raising their position in the rankings.[/quote]

Yes and this is the trend. Middlebury, for example, did away with extra essays several years ago. Perhaps one well-written essay tells the Admissions Office what they need to know.[/quote]

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