Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 18:10     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Why are Bates and Middlebury so poor in comparison? Didn’t both fire their prior Presidents? Netflix guy must be giving big bucks to Bowdoin.



Middlebury is at $1.7B, and Bates at $500M. Hardly poor.

Bates at 239k per student is in trouble. Not in terms of closing or anything, but it will have to give lots of merit aid soon, and that starts a vicious feedback loop. Ask Conn College. Midd will have to start doing the same a decade or so later (at most).

I think the Midd analysis here is mostly BS. Midd welcomes more students than all these other lacs. If it accepted as few students as Pomona, it would be at $1.1 million/student and would have a nice drop in acceptance rate. Not every college is greedy and holds onto every penny for as few students as possible.

+1, WASP basically play the selectivity game. It’s not a bad thing, but if a school is maintaining a nice student faculty ratio with more students, they are investing their money in academics, which I think is a net good.

Unless there’s a program you really like, there’s little reason to run to WASP when choosing an LAC.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 18:08     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:^sure maybe Midd could have 10 people in a freshman class.

Swarthmore has 1702 students.
Middlebury has about 2800 students.
These are facts lol.


Middlebury's enrollment is now 2,653.

No, that’s not IPEDs data. 100+ more, as you’ll see when the numbers become official.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 18:07     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:Agree no interest in any of these prep schools.

Then stop replying to threads about them if there’s no interest.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 18:07     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:^sure maybe Midd could have 10 people in a freshman class.

Swarthmore has 1702 students.
Middlebury has about 2800 students.
These are facts lol.


Middlebury's enrollment is now 2,653.

But what if it was 100 students? Think of how amazing the school would be then!

I don’t think it’d be great at all. I think schools should increase their sizes. Especially ones with $3bil endowments.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 18:04     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Why are Bates and Middlebury so poor in comparison? Didn’t both fire their prior Presidents? Netflix guy must be giving big bucks to Bowdoin.


Um, because they are not the same caliber as WASP-B?

why not? what can’t you get at Middlebury that you can at WASP?


Pay no attention, this one Bowdoin booster talking to the voice in their head.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 18:02     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Agree no interest in any of these prep schools.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 18:02     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:^sure maybe Midd could have 10 people in a freshman class.

Swarthmore has 1702 students.
Middlebury has about 2800 students.
These are facts lol.


Middlebury's enrollment is now 2,653.

But what if it was 100 students? Think of how amazing the school would be then!
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 18:01     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:Kids don’t go to Bama or UGA for endowment per student.

+1, it’s a weird LAC obsession that doesn’t measure anything.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 18:00     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:^sure maybe Midd could have 10 people in a freshman class.

Swarthmore has 1702 students.
Middlebury has about 2800 students.
These are facts lol.


Middlebury's enrollment is now 2,653.

So significantly more than Swarthmore!
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 18:00     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Kids don’t go to Bama or UGA for endowment per student.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 17:59     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:It’s a zero sum game for selective Lacs. Don’t have the pull of the SEC schools.
the SEC has nothing to do with this and attracts a very different student than LACs, strange you found this a necessary comment.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 17:59     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:^sure maybe Midd could have 10 people in a freshman class.

Swarthmore has 1702 students.
Middlebury has about 2800 students.
These are facts lol.


Middlebury's enrollment is now 2,653.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 17:59     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Did they do a good job?
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 17:59     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:It’s a zero sum game for selective Lacs. Don’t have the pull of the SEC schools.

What if Alabama had 2700 students? What would its endowment per student be [i]then.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 17:57     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
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Anonymous wrote:Holy Cross booster--we can see through your BS. Your pattern is clear. You keep posting about Midd, Colby, Colgate, Bates, etc. falling behind, but you occasionally make the mistake of randomly throwing HC into your posts. It's usually digging at rural schools.

I guess you're hoping that by making these other schools look bad, somehow HC will magically rise in the rankings. Not happening.

This is a Bowdoin thread. You sound unhinged.

Could fool me, no one is talking about Bowdoin.


+1