<p>vossron: just because 66+ schools signed that little annapolis protest letter doesn’t mean that many, if any, have adhered to it. reed lives it, to its credit. that doesn’t say much for the rest, swat included.</p>
<p>johnwesly: i assume you were kidding bringing up the application drop at swat because i am certain you know that apps were down at ALL lac’s this year except amherst (i think). if you weren’t kidding, then you were intentionally misrepresenting the significance of the app drop to prove or support a negative point about swat while obfuscating the true reasons for an applications decline. on the other hand, if you didn’t know that there was an applications decline across the board for all lac’s, then you do shoddy research which leads one to deduce that you or your progeny probably attended wesleyan (i assume that is how swatgrad deduced your affinity for wesleyan.)</p>
<p>swatgrad: although your statement is appreciated, it is a bit pithy. as a graduate of swat , you are bound by the tenets of a superior lac and need to support all your statements. let me help. the reason wesleyan’s admit rate is significantly higher than swat is because wesleyan has a much lower yield evidencing that wesleyan is nothing more than a safety school (doormat? anyone?) for swat students. you also neglect to mention the close ties between the two schools, namely the swat/wes consortium whereby swat brings in a group of (if not all) graduating seniors from wesleyan every May to give swatties mani’s and pedi’s and shine our shoes so that their graduates would have some practical skill sets befitting their status as wesleyan grads when they go job hunting.</p>