Anonymous
11/11/2025 18:26
Subject: Did your DC apply to a LAC with ED (or ED1)?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:ED to Swarthmore
4.0 UW (top NE boarding school)
34 ACT (old version which includes science, not super scored)
No class rank, no AP scores
Recruited athlete
Applying for FA
Is your kid already signed then as a recruited athlete, with the ED admission largely being a formality?
I don’t think there is such a thing as “a formality” at Swat because adcoms give no slack on stats and that was made clear at the beginning of the process.
But if you are asking if they were offered and accepted a verbal offer for a supported slot… then yes.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 17:19
Subject: Did your DC apply to a LAC with ED (or ED1)?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Are LACs now out of favor?
At DD's HS, everyone is EDing to much larger schools like Rice, Emory and NYU and not LACs anymore.
Hope so. Good for my kid who wants to go to a SLAC.
+100
Anonymous
11/11/2025 16:15
Subject: Did your DC apply to a LAC with ED (or ED1)?
Anonymous wrote:ED to Swarthmore
4.0 UW (top NE boarding school)
34 ACT (old version which includes science, not super scored)
No class rank, no AP scores
Recruited athlete
Applying for FA
Is your kid already signed then as a recruited athlete, with the ED admission largely being a formality?
Anonymous
11/11/2025 14:05
Subject: Did your DC apply to a LAC with ED (or ED1)?
Good luck to all!
Anonymous
11/11/2025 11:51
Subject: Did your DC apply to a LAC with ED (or ED1)?
So happy not to see a single DCUM poster applying to my DC's top choice LAC! I hope it's going downwards in popularity so he can get in. 
It's too competitive right now.
It's too competitive right now.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 09:42
Subject: Did your DC apply to a LAC with ED (or ED1)?
Anonymous wrote:Good luck to all. LAC grad here. Being at an LAC is really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I went to an LAC and then to a large research university for grad/professional school. Both places were great in their own way but the education at the LAC was something that I wouldn’t have been able to get at most places outside the LAC-world.
LAC grad with a similar experience here. Both of my DCs chose LACs, as well.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 09:41
Subject: Did your DC apply to a LAC with ED (or ED1)?
ED to Swarthmore
4.0 UW (top NE boarding school)
34 ACT (old version which includes science, not super scored)
No class rank, no AP scores
Recruited athlete
Applying for FA
4.0 UW (top NE boarding school)
34 ACT (old version which includes science, not super scored)
No class rank, no AP scores
Recruited athlete
Applying for FA
Anonymous
11/11/2025 08:21
Subject: Did your DC apply to a LAC with ED (or ED1)?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Are LACs now out of favor?
At DD's HS, everyone is EDing to much larger schools like Rice, Emory and NYU and not LACs anymore.
seems to be. this thread is pretty dead with only a handful actually applying ED to LACs lol.
I admit, I’m a bit relieved to not see anyone else listing the same school as my kid. Hoping maybe she has a chance, even though it’s still a reach for her!
Anonymous
11/11/2025 08:07
Subject: Did your DC apply to a LAC with ED (or ED1)?
Good luck to all. LAC grad here. Being at an LAC is really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I went to an LAC and then to a large research university for grad/professional school. Both places were great in their own way but the education at the LAC was something that I wouldn’t have been able to get at most places outside the LAC-world.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 07:56
Subject: Re:Did your DC apply to a LAC with ED (or ED1)?
Another ED to Swarthmore. 4.0 UW (but at a public), good test scores, unhooked.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 04:32
Subject: Did your DC apply to a LAC with ED (or ED1)?
Anonymous wrote:Are LACs now out of favor?
At DD's HS, everyone is EDing to much larger schools like Rice, Emory and NYU and not LACs anymore.
They’re at their highest popularity. They don’t have many seats. If these lacs got the same app numbers at universities, we’d be seeing 1-2% acceptance rates.
Anonymous
11/10/2025 23:34
Subject: Did your DC apply to a LAC with ED (or ED1)?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Are LACs now out of favor?
At DD's HS, everyone is EDing to much larger schools like Rice, Emory and NYU and not LACs anymore.
seems to be. this thread is pretty dead with only a handful actually applying ED to LACs lol.
Yes, becaue otherwise everone would rush to DCUM to post an answer to OP. /s
Anonymous
11/10/2025 22:35
Subject: Did your DC apply to a LAC with ED (or ED1)?
Anonymous wrote:Are LACs now out of favor?
At DD's HS, everyone is EDing to much larger schools like Rice, Emory and NYU and not LACs anymore.
seems to be. this thread is pretty dead with only a handful actually applying ED to LACs lol.
Anonymous
11/10/2025 21:35
Subject: Did your DC apply to a LAC with ED (or ED1)?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Are LACs now out of favor?
At DD's HS, everyone is EDing to much larger schools like Rice, Emory and NYU and not LACs anymore.
Hope so. Good for my kid who wants to go to a SLAC.
+1 many of DC’s friends, too
Anonymous
11/10/2025 21:19
Subject: Did your DC apply to a LAC with ED (or ED1)?
Anonymous wrote:Are LACs now out of favor?
At DD's HS, everyone is EDing to much larger schools like Rice, Emory and NYU and not LACs anymore.
Hope so. Good for my kid who wants to go to a SLAC.