Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 12:12     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:If I was a billionaire, instead of giving HYP another 100 million, I'd offer 10mm each to 10 of these colleges to help pay for one new 200-bed dorm each. Effectively adding a whole SLAC-size group of kids to the pool.

These schools could all grow 10%. Kids would be happier to have a few more kids. Classes would go from 12 kids per class to 13. who cares.

We need to expand opportunities


Because when you grow, acceptance rate goes up and endowment per student goes down. We can’t have that, can we?
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 11:35     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
If I was a billionaire, instead of giving HYP another 100 million, I'd offer 10mm each to 10 of these colleges to help pay for one new 200-bed dorm each. Effectively adding a whole SLAC-size group of kids to the pool.

These schools could all grow 10%. Kids would be happier to have a few more kids. Classes would go from 12 kids per class to 13. who cares.

We need to expand opportunities
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 11:19     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:I'd say top 5 LACs are pretty clear
1) Haverford
2) Swarthmore/Smith
3) Wellesley/Scripps/Williams/Amherst
4) Claremont McKenna/Middlebury
5) Bowdoin

+1, exactly!
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 10:32     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


Not sure why you’re so fixated on Mbury.


Pretty obvious that their kid didn’t get in. The obsession is a bit over the top,
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 09:06     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:I'd say top 5 LACs are pretty clear
1) Haverford
2) Swarthmore/Smith
3) Wellesley/Scripps/Williams/Amherst
4) Claremont McKenna/Middlebury
5) Bowdoin


Anonymous
Post 01/13/2026 00:12     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
What is this Bowdoin?
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 23:28     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
It is a great school.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 22:56     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
What kind of student is Bowdoin looking for?
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 22:53     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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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.


I feel secondhand embarrassment for you.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 22:51     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
I'd say top 5 LACs are pretty clear
1) Haverford
2) Swarthmore/Smith
3) Wellesley/Scripps/Williams/Amherst
4) Claremont McKenna/Middlebury
5) Bowdoin
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 21:45     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote: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.


Not sure why you’re so fixated on Mbury.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 21:31     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Bowdoin and Amherst acceptance rates are artificially low because they are need blind for international students. This adds a couple of thousand extra applications every year. Bowdoins acceptance rates for internationals is under 2% but the application numbers pad things making them look a bit selective more than they are.


I still think it’s an insanely tough admit for DMV kids. I feel like recruited athletes and legacies are demographically similar to many DMV applicants and they need to fill those few remaining unhooked spots with different types of kids and not just ones from the same high performing urban centers.


I was surprised to see that BCC sent 7 kids there last year. I have no idea if any are athletes or legacies.


Athletes


Only 1 of the BCC kids last year was a recruited athlete.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 20:26     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote: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.


Karen, you really need your meds. This delusion is pretty out of control.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 20:05     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Bowdoin sounds fantastic. How much emhasis on test scores.


Zero, they are 100% TO. They need it to boost their applications.


They've been test optional longer than anyone, since 1969: https://www.bowdoin.edu/admissions/apply/test-optional-policy/index.html
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 20:00     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote: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.

Bot poster. They always write “to use a sports analogy.”