Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 19:38     Subject: LAC leadership
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Bowdoin reporting 14,700 applications for class of 2030 up by 5%.

So few applications


And 6,000+ of those are international applicants who apply because it’s need blind for them, not realizing that Bowdoin ultimately accepts 1.5% of internationals.
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 19:17     Subject: LAC leadership
Anonymous wrote:Class of 2030, Holy Cross 10,600 up 5%. Bucknell down 8% to 10,600. Good gain for Grinnell.

Holy cross and Bucknell are for very middling to even poor quality rich students who just need the Econ degree. It’s not exactly difficult to attract idiots to apply.
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 19:16     Subject: LAC leadership
Anonymous wrote:Bowdoin reporting 14,700 applications for class of 2030 up by 5%.

So few applications
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 15:19     Subject: LAC leadership
Class of 2030, Holy Cross 10,600 up 5%. Bucknell down 8% to 10,600. Good gain for Grinnell.
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 15:07     Subject: LAC leadership
Bowdoin reporting 14,700 applications for class of 2030 up by 5%.
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 13:45     Subject: LAC leadership
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:For class of 2029, Colby had over 20k apps while Midd had about 11k. Middlebury also has larger freshman class size. Colby is hot the other school not so.


Colby has no app fee and no supplementals. They won't publish their numbers. It's shady. Goosing their #s. They are the Northeastern of the NESCAC!

And I say this as someone who liked Colby and whose kid was going to apply - if had not gotten into their ED1.


I have a kid a Midd and a kid at Colby. Both would say that Midd is the better school and both love theirs and each other’s schools. I don’t get the insecurity and incessant boosting of a certain poster for Colby. It’s a great school and they should be proud but not so out there as to sound foolish. Their hatred towards Midd is easy to explain, they or their child didn’t get in.
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 13:28     Subject: LAC leadership
Anonymous wrote:For class of 2029, Colby had over 20k apps while Midd had about 11k. Middlebury also has larger freshman class size. Colby is hot the other school not so.


Colby has no app fee and no supplementals. They won't publish their numbers. It's shady. Goosing their #s. They are the Northeastern of the NESCAC!

And I say this as someone who liked Colby and whose kid was going to apply - if had not gotten into their ED1.
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 13:11     Subject: LAC leadership
Of course Buy Colby!!!
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 13:10     Subject: LAC leadership
Stock pick episode 2. Maintain forever Williams, Amherst, and Bowdoin. Buy Davidson, Holy Cross, Wesleyan. Hold Swarthmore, Wellesley, Smith, and Vassar. Sell Bucknell, Trinity, Bates, Kenyon, Colgate, Hamilton, Middlebury.
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 12:05     Subject: LAC leadership
Anonymous wrote:For class of 2029, Colby had over 20k apps while Midd had about 11k. Middlebury also has larger freshman class size. Colby is hot the other school not so.


Colby is a free app. If that's how they need to get the numbers up, so be it.
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 11:48     Subject: LAC leadership
For class of 2029, Colby had over 20k apps while Midd had about 11k. Middlebury also has larger freshman class size. Colby is hot the other school not so.
Anonymous
Post 03/18/2026 06:02     Subject: LAC leadership
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Colby is definitely on the upswing with record fundraising and capital projects. Won’t catch Bowdoin but slightly ahead of Hamilton and Middlebury who are both going nowhere.


That is a neat little trick, acknowledging Bowdoin then trying to group Colby with Hamilton and Middlebury and saying that they are slightly ahead. But it doesn't fly. Colby doesn't belong with Hamilton and Middlebury, it is solidly behind both of them as well as Wesleyan. Colby isn't the middle school in the NESCAC, it is the bottom half. It is a fine school but seventh in the NESCAC is as high as it will ever go.


Until Colby publishes their Common Data Set (like every other top college in the country), no one will take them seriously.
Anonymous
Post 03/17/2026 14:28     Subject: LAC leadership
Anonymous wrote:Colby is definitely on the upswing with record fundraising and capital projects. Won’t catch Bowdoin but slightly ahead of Hamilton and Middlebury who are both going nowhere.


That is a neat little trick, acknowledging Bowdoin then trying to group Colby with Hamilton and Middlebury and saying that they are slightly ahead. But it doesn't fly. Colby doesn't belong with Hamilton and Middlebury, it is solidly behind both of them as well as Wesleyan. Colby isn't the middle school in the NESCAC, it is the bottom half. It is a fine school but seventh in the NESCAC is as high as it will ever go.
Anonymous
Post 03/17/2026 13:45     Subject: LAC leadership
Colby is definitely on the upswing with record fundraising and capital projects. Won’t catch Bowdoin but slightly ahead of Hamilton and Middlebury who are both going nowhere.
Anonymous
Post 03/17/2026 13:20     Subject: LAC leadership
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Apparently word about Midd isn’t being warmly received because their apps have fallen for a few consecutive years unlike Colby.


Midd applications have fallen slightly from record highs, same as Williams and Amherst. None of those schools have ever been accused of gaming the system to look more selective than they are which is something that cannot be said regarding Colby.


Don't know about Williams, but Amherst has had record-breaking numbers of applications two years in a row. Meanwhile, Colby's app is free and requires no supplemental essays...


All three schools are doing great and in high demand. All three had small drops from their record highs a few years ago (Hamilton did as well) which were nothing but blips coming out of the Covid years They are only meaningful in the mind of the desperate Colby booster.