Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 15:22     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:Williams is and always will be the top dog.

Nonsense.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 15:22     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
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Anonymous wrote:CMC at $1.3billion and Middlebury at $1.4 billion, they are panhandlers compared to WASP-B.


It’s called endowment per student. CMC is no slouch at 862k per student. Midd, at 458k per student, is nowhere near CMC.

https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/EndowmentPerStudent/

Why is Williams’s endowment per student so low?


Williams has a graduate school, endowment per student obviously counts the total number of undergraduate and graduate students.
I don't know how many graduate students they have, but even a small graduate school of 200 students will dilute the endowment per student significantly.

Williams only has about 50 grad students.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 14:32     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Williams is and always will be the top dog.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 14:30     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:CMC at $1.3billion and Middlebury at $1.4 billion, they are panhandlers compared to WASP-B.


It’s called endowment per student. CMC is no slouch at 862k per student. Midd, at 458k per student, is nowhere near CMC.

https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/EndowmentPerStudent/

Why is Williams’s endowment per student so low?

1.4 million per student is not “low”. Is this silly season?
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 14:19     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:CMC at $1.3billion and Middlebury at $1.4 billion, they are panhandlers compared to WASP-B.


It’s called endowment per student. CMC is no slouch at 862k per student. Midd, at 458k per student, is nowhere near CMC.

https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/EndowmentPerStudent/

Why is Williams’s endowment per student so low?


Williams has a graduate school, endowment per student obviously counts the total number of undergraduate and graduate students.
I don't know how many graduate students they have, but even a small graduate school of 200 students will dilute the endowment per student significantly.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 14:05     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
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Anonymous wrote:I am a former Brunswick townie and find Bowdoin so overrated! There is a big NE prep school pipeline. I visited Oxford, Ohio (Miami u) for work, and the kids there looked so much more full of life and pep.




Travel goggles bias? I do think that we all tend to see the ho hum in our local, and get excited about a new place. To an extent. I once visited Bowdoin on an absolutely glorious November Friday. The students were awesome. Then I came home to the land of the suburban nerds. Strong preference for autimn in Brunswick. Also travel bias, I suspect.

—Former Palo Alto resident


PP, that’s an astute perspective. Bowdoin and Brunswick do have some town gown tensions and this does color my view of kids paying $$$$ to go there. Also they are big on displaying land acknowledgments yet don’t do much to ameliorate that admitted native land grab
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 13:59     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:CMC at $1.3billion and Middlebury at $1.4 billion, they are panhandlers compared to WASP-B.


It’s called endowment per student. CMC is no slouch at 862k per student. Midd, at 458k per student, is nowhere near CMC.

https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/EndowmentPerStudent/

Why is Williams’s endowment per student so low?
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 13:59     Subject: Re:How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
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Anonymous wrote:WASP is a good standard but schools like Bowdoin, Middlebury, Wellesley are obviously just as good.

Hmnnn. One of these schools “obviously” does not belong with the others.

I’m not in the business of splitting hairs, so just make a frank statement.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 13:58     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:My boys weren't SLAC-oriented. But among all the small liberal arts colleges, Bowdoin seemed the most appealing. They both go to top 20 universities today, but Bowdoin was definitely the only small liberal arts college they were interested in. Bowdoin seems like a very humane, nice, and challenging school in an interesting corner of America.

They had absolutely no interest in Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, or Pomona. Bowdoin feels more normal, and a place where normal smart kids can do their thing. That is no small thing in 2026.

I’m not sure how this doesn’t apply to all the other schools you just named.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 13:56     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
^davidson acceptance is 12%, splitting hairs.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 13:50     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:Big gaps between the little 5 and the rest. Giving a momentum to Colby(money), Holy Cross(Boston proxy play), Davidson(warm weather and Charlotte proxy). Been to W& L too rural and name are negatives. Trinity and Conn College not much positive. Colgate, Hamilton, Middlebury trending slightly down. Bates no money and poor location trending down. Vassar location is negative and vibe is very liberal slightly down. Wesleyan not great location and like Vassar way liberal maybe woke. Big winners Bowdoin and Davidson.


Ah someone wants to insert Davidson into the convo. Good school but come back when it has single digit acceptance rates.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 13:46     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
People, you are having a back and forth with a single Bowdoin booster who is pretending to be multiple posters. They are struggling today, don’t feed the trolls.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 13:46     Subject: Re:How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:WASP is a good standard but schools like Bowdoin, Middlebury, Wellesley are obviously just as good.

Hmnnn. One of these schools “obviously” does not belong with the others.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 13:45     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:CMC at $1.3billion and Middlebury at $1.4 billion, they are panhandlers compared to WASP-B.


It’s called endowment per student. CMC is no slouch at 862k per student. Midd, at 458k per student, is nowhere near CMC.

https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/EndowmentPerStudent/
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 13:45     Subject: How did Bowdoin acceptance rate become so low?
Anonymous wrote:CMC at $1.3billion and Middlebury at $1.4 billion, they are panhandlers compared to WASP-B.


It’s called endowment per student. CMC is no slouch at 862k per student. Midd, at 458k per student, is nowhere near CMC.