Weather forecast calls for a high of 24 degrees in Hamilton. Four years at Colgate no thanks

Colgate is significantly more selective

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Anonymous wrote:Colgate seems to be a place for kids that didn’t get into their top choices. Hamilton is very remote and very long winters

They fill about 60% of the class with ED applicants, so it's the top choice for many of them. I can say from experience that Hamilton is indeed very remote and cold.

ED=/=top choice, it's the strategic choice they made knowing they weren't getting into Dartmouth early and that Colgate heavily weights admissions toward early applicants.

Colgate alum - I think this is mostly covered, but just in case:

1. Both are heavy greek.
2. Both are isolated, though Bucknell much closer to DC.
3. Both similar types of students though Colgate deliberately has tried to boost their stats of admitted students.
4. Bucknell has some business and finance classes, Colgate is lacking here.
5. Weather is rough in both but moreso at Colgate.

My student was semi-interested but after some analysis realized there are other schools of this size with better sports, weather and towns/cities. You really need to understand the isolation, weather and greek-heavy aspects of these schools.

Anonymous wrote:Colgate’s town is really small & there isn’t much within a short drive. Bucknell doesn’t feel as isolated.

This is the first time Bucknell has ever been viewed as not as isolated. Says a lot about Hamilton. If you are in DMV, Bucknell is about half as far away. Both Lewisburg and Hamilton are cute towns but not a lot around either of them.

Seems student populations are similar. Like just switch entire student bodies overnight and everything would look exactly the same.

Anonymous wrote:Well there are SOME KIDS, like mine, who said "I want cold, in the middle of nowhere, and has good academics"
....and so, that's what we are doing!

Well that covers both schools, it is just that Colgate is a bit colder.

Well there are SOME KIDS, like mine, who said "I want cold, in the middle of nowhere, and has good academics"
....and so, that's what we are doing!

Anonymous wrote:Has to laugh at that post! I went to Colgate and I swear everyone I knew there had applied and not gotten into Dartmouth.

That sounds like Middelbury.

Wouldn’t pay 85-90k to go to Colgate or Bucknell both extremely in the middle of nowhere. If into sports why go there.

Anonymous wrote:Has to laugh at that post! I went to Colgate and I swear everyone I knew there had applied and not gotten into Dartmouth.

+1 from another Colgate alum. Half my floor of KED had applied to Dartmouth and not gotten in (not me though.) Bucknell was my second choice but I applied ED to Colgate.

Anonymous wrote:Colgate seems to be a place for kids that didn’t get into their top choices. Hamilton is very remote and very long winters

They fill about 60% of the class with ED applicants, so it's the top choice for many of them. I can say from experience that Hamilton is indeed very remote and cold.

Colgate seems to be a place for kids that didn’t get into their top choices. Hamilton is very remote and very long winters

Colgate is so much more prestigious. From a post-graduation standpoint, it will open up a lot more doors. Completely different caliber of student.

Anonymous wrote:Colgate’s town is really small & there isn’t much within a short drive. Bucknell doesn’t feel as isolated.

You don't think Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, is isolated?

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Anonymous wrote:Bucknell is JV Colgate, which is JV Dartmouth.

get a life

I went to Colgate, and it's kind of true.