Anonymous
01/12/2026 20:00
Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Disagree families want the most prestige. Kids will pick HYP over Brown and Cornell. Most people know Williams and Amherst are the best.
Their kids disagree. Bowdoin and Pomona have higher yield…
Yields are actually quite easy to manipulate. Just accept more kids early, reject the tippy-top kids and accept the next tier, or use the waitlist.
Good point, but the early decision acceptance rates at Pomona and Bowdoin are significantly lower than Williams and Amherst.
Anonymous
01/12/2026 19:55
Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Nothing like a good NESCAC trash talking. The Bama vs Auburn or Michigan vs Ohio State has nothing on this thread. To use a sports analogy, Bowdoin seems like the Indiana football team hitting on all cylinders. Middlebury boosters seem like the Minnesota Golden Gophers.
Anonymous
01/12/2026 19:55
Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:All these small, rural schools will falter in the next few years, and urban schools like Harvard, Yale, MIT, Holy Cross, etc. will be the only ones in New England that survive.
Holy cross? What? It’s doing much worse than Williams lol.
Williams can only dream of having the likes of Fauci, Clarence Thomas, and other prominent CEOs.
Hard to take this serious when Reza Pahlavi went to Williams along with various heads of state in many other countries.
Everyone knows Fauci and Thomas. No one knows who Reza Pahlavi is.
It’s weird seeing someone boldly proclaim that they’re an idiot.
+1
Anonymous
01/12/2026 19:40
Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:All these small, rural schools will falter in the next few years, and urban schools like Harvard, Yale, MIT, Holy Cross, etc. will be the only ones in New England that survive.
Holy cross? What? It’s doing much worse than Williams lol.
Williams can only dream of having the likes of Fauci, Clarence Thomas, and other prominent CEOs.
Hard to take this serious when Reza Pahlavi went to Williams along with various heads of state in many other countries.
Everyone knows Fauci and Thomas. No one knows who Reza Pahlavi is.
Clarence Thomas? The biggest idiot DEI hire on the Supreme Court? That’s what HC can do?
Anonymous
01/12/2026 19:32
Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
What about Jes Staley?? Come on. His “Snow White” emails to Epstein?
Anonymous
01/12/2026 19:27
Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:Bowdoin sounds fantastic. How much emhasis on test scores.
Zero, they are 100% TO. They need it to boost their applications.
Anonymous
01/12/2026 19:21
Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Disagree families want the most prestige. Kids will pick HYP over Brown and Cornell. Most people know Williams and Amherst are the best.[/quote]
Their kids disagree. Bowdoin and Pomona have higher yield…[/quote]
Yields are actually quite easy to manipulate. Just accept more kids early, reject the tippy-top kids and accept the next tier, or use the waitlist. [/quote]
Except this isn’t really the situation. All of the schools accept 50% of their classes in their ED cycles.[/quote]
Bowdoin took 270 ED last year, and accepted 22 from the WL (likely 100% matriculation). So they had another 200 or so spots to fill. Not so difficult to cull the RD applicants to fund a good number that are likely to matriculate if offered admission, especially if they look for high GPA kids who didn't submit test scores (only 31% of matriculants did). Yield isn't as telling as you make it out to be. [/quote]
Missing the mark here. Yield is manipulated the same way by all of these schools.
Their kids disagree. Bowdoin and Pomona have higher yield…[/quote]
Yields are actually quite easy to manipulate. Just accept more kids early, reject the tippy-top kids and accept the next tier, or use the waitlist. [/quote]
Except this isn’t really the situation. All of the schools accept 50% of their classes in their ED cycles.[/quote]
Bowdoin took 270 ED last year, and accepted 22 from the WL (likely 100% matriculation). So they had another 200 or so spots to fill. Not so difficult to cull the RD applicants to fund a good number that are likely to matriculate if offered admission, especially if they look for high GPA kids who didn't submit test scores (only 31% of matriculants did). Yield isn't as telling as you make it out to be. [/quote]
Missing the mark here. Yield is manipulated the same way by all of these schools.
Anonymous
01/12/2026 19:19
Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:All these small, rural schools will falter in the next few years, and urban schools like Harvard, Yale, MIT, Holy Cross, etc. will be the only ones in New England that survive.
Holy cross? What? It’s doing much worse than Williams lol.
Williams can only dream of having the likes of Fauci, Clarence Thomas, and other prominent CEOs.
Hard to take this serious when Reza Pahlavi went to Williams along with various heads of state in many other countries.
Everyone knows Fauci and Thomas. No one knows who Reza Pahlavi is.
It’s weird seeing someone boldly proclaim that they’re an idiot.
Anonymous
01/12/2026 19:18
Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Disagree families want the most prestige. Kids will pick HYP over Brown and Cornell. Most people know Williams and Amherst are the best.[/quote]
Their kids disagree. Bowdoin and Pomona have higher yield…[/quote]
Yields are actually quite easy to manipulate. Just accept more kids early, reject the tippy-top kids and accept the next tier, or use the waitlist. [/quote]
Except this isn’t really the situation. All of the schools accept 50% of their classes in their ED cycles.[/quote]
Bowdoin took 270 ED last year, and accepted 22 from the WL (likely 100% matriculation). So they had another 200 or so spots to fill. Not so difficult to cull the RD applicants to fund a good number that are likely to matriculate if offered admission, especially if they look for high GPA kids who didn't submit test scores (only 31% of matriculants did). Yield isn't as telling as you make it out to be. [/quote]
So about 50% of their students come from ED, just like Williams and Amherst. There’s no trickery going on here.
Their kids disagree. Bowdoin and Pomona have higher yield…[/quote]
Yields are actually quite easy to manipulate. Just accept more kids early, reject the tippy-top kids and accept the next tier, or use the waitlist. [/quote]
Except this isn’t really the situation. All of the schools accept 50% of their classes in their ED cycles.[/quote]
Bowdoin took 270 ED last year, and accepted 22 from the WL (likely 100% matriculation). So they had another 200 or so spots to fill. Not so difficult to cull the RD applicants to fund a good number that are likely to matriculate if offered admission, especially if they look for high GPA kids who didn't submit test scores (only 31% of matriculants did). Yield isn't as telling as you make it out to be. [/quote]
So about 50% of their students come from ED, just like Williams and Amherst. There’s no trickery going on here.
Anonymous
01/12/2026 19:17
Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:All these small, rural schools will falter in the next few years, and urban schools like Harvard, Yale, MIT, Holy Cross, etc. will be the only ones in New England that survive.
Holy cross? What? It’s doing much worse than Williams lol.
Williams can only dream of having the likes of Fauci, Clarence Thomas, and other prominent CEOs.
Hard to take this serious when Reza Pahlavi went to Williams along with various heads of state in many other countries.
Everyone knows Fauci and Thomas. No one knows who Reza Pahlavi is.
Anonymous
01/12/2026 19:16
Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Disagree families want the most prestige. Kids will pick HYP over Brown and Cornell. Most people know Williams and Amherst are the best.[/quote]
Their kids disagree. Bowdoin and Pomona have higher yield…[/quote]
Yields are actually quite easy to manipulate. Just accept more kids early, reject the tippy-top kids and accept the next tier, or use the waitlist. [/quote]
Except this isn’t really the situation. All of the schools accept 50% of their classes in their ED cycles.[/quote]
Bowdoin took 270 ED last year, and accepted 22 from the WL (likely 100% matriculation). So they had another 200 or so spots to fill. Not so difficult to cull the RD applicants to fund a good number that are likely to matriculate if offered admission, especially if they look for high GPA kids who didn't submit test scores (only 31% of matriculants did). Yield isn't as telling as you make it out to be.
Their kids disagree. Bowdoin and Pomona have higher yield…[/quote]
Yields are actually quite easy to manipulate. Just accept more kids early, reject the tippy-top kids and accept the next tier, or use the waitlist. [/quote]
Except this isn’t really the situation. All of the schools accept 50% of their classes in their ED cycles.[/quote]
Bowdoin took 270 ED last year, and accepted 22 from the WL (likely 100% matriculation). So they had another 200 or so spots to fill. Not so difficult to cull the RD applicants to fund a good number that are likely to matriculate if offered admission, especially if they look for high GPA kids who didn't submit test scores (only 31% of matriculants did). Yield isn't as telling as you make it out to be.
Anonymous
01/12/2026 18:59
Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:All these small, rural schools will falter in the next few years, and urban schools like Harvard, Yale, MIT, etc. will be the only ones in New England that survive.
They all seem to have increased applications.
Anonymous
01/12/2026 18:54
Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:All these small, rural schools will falter in the next few years, and urban schools like Harvard, Yale, MIT, Holy Cross, etc. will be the only ones in New England that survive.
Holy cross? What? It’s doing much worse than Williams lol.
Williams can only dream of having the likes of Fauci, Clarence Thomas, and other prominent CEOs.
Hard to take this serious when Reza Pahlavi went to Williams along with various heads of state in many other countries.
Anonymous
01/12/2026 18:41
Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Disagree families want the most prestige. Kids will pick HYP over Brown and Cornell. Most people know Williams and Amherst are the best.[/quote]
Their kids disagree. Bowdoin and Pomona have higher yield…[/quote]
Yields are actually quite easy to manipulate. Just accept more kids early, reject the tippy-top kids and accept the next tier, or use the waitlist. [/quote]
Except this isn’t really the situation. All of the schools accept 50% of their classes in their ED cycles.
Their kids disagree. Bowdoin and Pomona have higher yield…[/quote]
Yields are actually quite easy to manipulate. Just accept more kids early, reject the tippy-top kids and accept the next tier, or use the waitlist. [/quote]
Except this isn’t really the situation. All of the schools accept 50% of their classes in their ED cycles.
Anonymous
01/12/2026 18:41
Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:All these small, rural schools will falter in the next few years, and urban schools like Harvard, Yale, MIT, Holy Cross, etc. will be the only ones in New England that survive.
Holy cross? What? It’s doing much worse than Williams lol.
Williams can only dream of having the likes of Fauci, Clarence Thomas, and other prominent CEOs.
Yeah because Williams alum are more impressive.