<p>nyc, we’ve looked at other schools with low rates, too. Hiram, for example. There, one thought was that the school gets a lot of first generation students, who for whatever reason, find college not to their liking. As for Goucher, we’ve not really heard anything to explain the low rate. </p>
<p>hopeful, our 2008 US News book reports about a 20 percentage point increase in the early decision acceptance rate (over the regular acceptance rate) for Goucher.</p>