Continuing with the adjusted (for ED) Draw Rate analysis…
When you eliminate the distortion created by ED, you see that the Draw Rate for all but two of the top LACs-- Bowdoin and Colorado College-- is about the same as for Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins, Rice, U. Michigan and U. North Carolina.
Most of the other LACs are in the neighborhood of the same Draw Rate as public flagships such as U Florida, U Georgia, Texas A&M, U Washington, etc.
Draw Rate of 2.1-3.2 if average of ED and RD is used as denominator:
Cornell 3.2
Northwestern 3.1
UC BERKELEY 3.0
Vanderbilt 2.8
UCLA 2.8
Bowdoin College 2.4
Colorado College 2.2
Carnegie Mellon 2.1
Draw Rate of 1.6-2.0 if average of ED and RD is used as denominator:
Johns Hopkins 2.0
Rice 2.0
Tufts 1.9
Claremont McKenna College 1.9
Swarthmore College 1.8
Bates College 1.8
Amherst College 1.7
Williams College 1.7
U MICHIGAN 1.6
U NORTH CAROLINA 1.6
Draw Rate of 1.1-1.5 if ED and RD are averaged:
GEORGIA TECH 1.5
Washington U. St. Louis 1.4
Carleton College 1.4
U VIRGINIA 1.3
New York University 1.3
Haverford College 1.2
Wesleyan University 1.1
Hamilton College 1.1
Draw Rate of 0.8-1.0 if ED and RD are averaged: 0.8-0.9
Cal Polytechnic - SLO 1.0
UT AUSTIN 1.0
Vassar College 1.0
TEXAS A&M 1.0
Emory U. 1.0
Northeastern University 0.9
Reed College 0.9
U FLORIDA 0.9
U. GEORGIA 0.9
Lehigh University 0.9
Colgate University 0.8
VIRGINIA TECH 0.8
Colby College 0.8
Draw Rate of 0.6-0.7 if ED and RD are averaged: 0.8-0.9
U WASHINGTON 0.7
U ILLINOIS 0.7
Lafayette College 0.7
CENTRAL FLORIDA 0.7
UC SAN DIEGO 0.7
U WISCONSIN 0.7
Stevens Institute 0.7
WILLIAM & MARY 0.7
George Washington University 0.7
MARYLAND 0.7
Tulane 0.6
Oberlin 0.6
OHIO STATE 0.6
Grinnell College 0.6
American University 0.6
U. Miami 0.6
UC SANTA BARBARA 0.6
U. of Rochester 0.6
Boston University 0.6