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Anonymous wrote:Surprised at all the people suggesting Davidson as a laid back option. Students may be nice but that school is intense! And it has a 15% acceptance rate (we have no stats from OP so it may be a completely unrealistic option with the minimal details provided). Let’s be honest, this is a selective college for really high-achieving kids, not a low-key and relaxed environment.

It’s actually a relatively easy admit from local private schools. I know multiple unhooked kids admitted from our academically rigorous private who didn’t take top rigor and/or weren’t within top 20 percent of class. Also a lot of student athletes since it’s less than 2000 students, and still competes D1.

I don’t believe op indicated if coming from public or private, but slacs still seem to give private schools a decent size preference.

Is your private school in the DMV or in North Carolina, where Davidson is located?

Swarthmore is a great school but the student body is pretty miserable. Your experience is right in line with my own. There is nothing laid back about Swarthmore.

Sorry, whats the question here?

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Anonymous wrote:SLACs are intense. At least mine was and so is my son’s.

LOL ! Please name the schools.

Swarthmore.

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Anonymous wrote:SLACs are intense. At least mine was and so is my son’s.

LOL ! Please name the schools.

Where did you go to school? Not a SLAC so how would you know?

Wesleyan is predominantly woke but also has conservatives. Plus it has all the same sports teams you'd see at Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, Trinity, etc. Recruited athletes are often not woke.

Wesleyan
Skidmore
Macalaster
Franklin & Marshall
Grinnell
Pitzer
Most of the CTCLs

My kid had near perfect grades and fantastic ECs but, due to anxiety, applied only to colleges like the ones listed above (including CTCLs).

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Anonymous wrote:Wesleyan, Union college. Consider both.

A kid who likes one of these schools would hate the other. They're as different as can be. Woke culture vs. bro culture.

Disagree. Had kids that considered both. People who toss around "woke" are likely to not have experience with that school.

(Different poster.)

I question your honesty if you maintain that Wesleyan University is not woke.

OP: Some laid-back LACs to consider: Skidmore College, Connecticut College, Vassar College, Dickinson College, Grinnell, Denison, St. Lawrence, Lewis & Clark, and most others not ranked in the top 10. The most chill is Colorado College where students take one course per 3.5 week term, then enjoy a long weekend after each term. Relaxed. Lots of pot & recreational snow skiing takes place on breaks. Lots of rich kids.

Anonymous wrote:SLACs are intense. At least mine was and so is my son’s.

LOL ! Please name the schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Wesleyan, Union college. Consider both.

A kid who likes one of these schools would hate the other. They're as different as can be. Woke culture vs. bro culture.

Disagree. Had kids that considered both. People who toss around "woke" are likely to not have experience with that school.

Wesleyan is woke AF.

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Anonymous wrote:Surprised at all the people suggesting Davidson as a laid back option. Students may be nice but that school is intense! And it has a 15% acceptance rate (we have no stats from OP so it may be a completely unrealistic option with the minimal details provided). Let’s be honest, this is a selective college for really high-achieving kids, not a low-key and relaxed environment.

It’s actually a relatively easy admit from local private schools. I know multiple unhooked kids admitted from our academically rigorous private who didn’t take top rigor and/or weren’t within top 20 percent of class. Also a lot of student athletes since it’s less than 2000 students, and still competes D1.

I don’t believe op indicated if coming from public or private, but slacs still seem to give private schools a decent size preference.

14.5% admit rate is NOT relatively easy. Welcome to 2024!

It’s over 80 percent from our private. Some slacs love private schools. I only mention because may be relevant to op.

Last year, Davidson had a class of 490 students from 443 DIFFERENT high schools. Their yield is 50%. That means your high school probably had one, maybe two or three admits at most. To have an 80% admit rate from your school, you must have had four applications and three admits. But, had ten kids applied, there is no chance that eight would have been admitted. BTW, every school, even Harvard, takes more kids from their metro/state area. Most colleges see it as part of their community responsibility.

It’s a private high school with around 80 kids per class. Six kids attending Davidson from past two classes (grad years 2022 and 2023), literally a sea of green on Naviance. I’m aware of this because my senior considering applying based mostly on the favorable odds from her high school, but ultimately felt that Davidson was too small and did not apply.

Not sure why you are so personally offended by this. It is a known phenomena that some slacs really like private schools, lperhaps because it is a similar environment, or maybe because of the likelihood of full pay.

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Anonymous wrote:Surprised at all the people suggesting Davidson as a laid back option. Students may be nice but that school is intense! And it has a 15% acceptance rate (we have no stats from OP so it may be a completely unrealistic option with the minimal details provided). Let’s be honest, this is a selective college for really high-achieving kids, not a low-key and relaxed environment.

It’s actually a relatively easy admit from local private schools. I know multiple unhooked kids admitted from our academically rigorous private who didn’t take top rigor and/or weren’t within top 20 percent of class. Also a lot of student athletes since it’s less than 2000 students, and still competes D1.

I don’t believe op indicated if coming from public or private, but slacs still seem to give private schools a decent size preference.

14.5% admit rate is NOT relatively easy. Welcome to 2024!

It’s over 80 percent from our private. Some slacs love private schools. I only mention because may be relevant to op.

Last year, Davidson had a class of 490 students from 443 DIFFERENT high schools. Their yield is 50%. That means your high school probably had one, maybe two or three admits at most. To have an 80% admit rate from your school, you must have had four applications and three admits. But, had ten kids applied, there is no chance that eight would have been admitted. BTW, every school, even Harvard, takes more kids from their metro/state area. Most colleges see it as part of their community responsibility.

Anonymous wrote:Have her take a gap year and then start at the top school. She just needs a break

Make sense

Have her take a gap year and then start at the top school. She just needs a break

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Anonymous wrote:Surprised at all the people suggesting Davidson as a laid back option. Students may be nice but that school is intense! And it has a 15% acceptance rate (we have no stats from OP so it may be a completely unrealistic option with the minimal details provided). Let’s be honest, this is a selective college for really high-achieving kids, not a low-key and relaxed environment.

It’s actually a relatively easy admit from local private schools. I know multiple unhooked kids admitted from our academically rigorous private who didn’t take top rigor and/or weren’t within top 20 percent of class. Also a lot of student athletes since it’s less than 2000 students, and still competes D1.

I don’t believe op indicated if coming from public or private, but slacs still seem to give private schools a decent size preference.

14.5% admit rate is NOT relatively easy. Welcome to 2024!

It’s over 80 percent from our private. Some slacs love private schools. I only mention because may be relevant to op.

Just looked it up, and only 53 percent of student body at Davidson from public schools. That seems pretty low.

Where do you find that data?

Google