Colgate selectivity?

Chocolateisgood · 05-09-2006, 10:06 PM

How selective is Colgate? is it more selective than hamilton? what kind of things do they look for?

stonecold23 · 05-09-2006, 11:22 PM

colgate is very selective... basic stats would be average sat around 1400 , 25-30% acceptance rate. they look at everyhting though and it is possible to overcome

dont know that much about hamilton, but within my school everyone who got into colgate got into hamilton, but not vice versa

Chibifry · 05-10-2006, 05:36 PM

Cool. Colgate is a great school but I think Im kind of iffy on the name. I don't really want to go around saying that I go to toothpaste.

snowman540z · 05-10-2006, 09:00 PM

whats wrong with toothpaste, you do brush your teeth dont you?

chexpartymix · 05-10-2006, 09:58 PM

I think Colgate & Co. started out as a soapmaking company, actually :-)

I also think most people look beyond the "brand" name connotation and more at its "academic" integrity, which is very highly regarded. Regardless of the toothpaste stigma it's worth taking a serious look at Colgate. Hamilton is very good, too. Despite some similarities with one another, I don't think there is a fondness between students or applicants at both schools, rather there is a healthy rivalry for LAC supremacy in Central NY!

mhc48 · 05-11-2006, 12:13 AM

And Rice is a grain
Clark is a candy bar
Wells is from Wells Fargo
Tulane is a blacktop
Yale is a lock, Harvard is a beet
St Joseph's an asprin
Stetson a hat
Converse a sneaker
Skidmore a clumbsily made shoe....
What can Brown do for you?

Is there a point about Colgate's name?

imwithyouguysdogsaregreat · 05-11-2006, 12:32 AM

how clever

collegeparent · 05-11-2006, 09:44 AM

Actually, imwith...great, there a huge list of colleges and their "appropriate" mascots/nicknames. Among them the Bates Motels, the Colby Cheeses, the Rice Puddings, the Tulane Highways, the Hamilton Clocks, the Union Jacks, the Emory Boards, the Cornell Wildes, the Carleton Cigarettes, etc. etc. You get the idea; few schools are immune.

gellino · 05-11-2006, 10:45 AM

I always liked the Colgate name, maybe because I always used Aqua Fresh or Crest (until I went there), so I didn't associate the name with toothpaste. Also, once you're on campus that joke isn't funny to anyone anymore. Growing up watching ABC football watching the scores go across the bottom of names like Colgate, Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, Bucknell always intrigued me and it seemed like these schools had a lot of old-line traditions to them.

huskem55 · 05-11-2006, 11:11 AM

agree exactly with post #2- most people i know that got into colgate got into hamilton, but NOT vice versa.

mhc48 · 05-11-2006, 02:18 PM

gellino, I'm a hoary 57 years old and I remember Colgate from plastic covered paper bookcovers we used to buy every Fall with our school supplies to fold over and tape onto our textbooks. There were only about 10 or so different choices; each of them were shiny white with borders in the school's colors with the emblem or seal of the school, maybe a mascot for some. I knew little to nothing about any college back then but vividly remember the Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Notre Dame and Colgate book covers.

I also remember one of my friends going getting in to Colgate the year we graduated: 1965. While I know that Hamilton and I suppose schools like Grinnell and Carelton were in existence back then, no one in my school had ever heard of them and I doubt they had the name recognition and history that Colgate did.

(BTW, I wouldn't have been caught dead even applying to Colgate back then. I couldn't wait to begin at NYU, move into the Village and begin growing a beard).

gellino · 05-11-2006, 03:27 PM

mhc, I enjoy the personal anecdote, which is the type of feel to these northeast establishment schools I was referring to. I guess Hamilton, Grinnell, Carelton type of schools have probably been considered pretty good for a while, but because they're so small and never have played any kind of high profile sports are relatively unknown, especially the ones in the midwest. However, I had never heard of Hamilton, either, until I arrived at Colgate.

I agree that NYU & Colgate are so on the opposite ends of the spectrum that it surprises me to see so many common applicants to both and confirms to me the bad side of students being caught up in a rankings craze instead of focusing on what type of school would be best for them. Students applying to Colgate should also be applying to Dartmouth, Williams, Middlebury, Bucknell, while those applying to NYU should be applying to Columbia, Penn, BU and GWU.