How do you think about acceptance rate?

MWolf
Wed, 30 Oct 2024 21:13:37 +0000

People were talking about Liberal Arts Colleges, and we should remember that around 1/3 of their students are varsity athletes, many or most who are recruited.

That means that these students have a very different admission process, and therefore admission rate, than other students. For starters, these are an EXTREMELY self-selected group. To even start the process of recruitment, these students already have to be top performing athletes. So the pool of such applicants goes through an extreme level pf culling every year.

To a smaller extent, some of these LACs have students who are accepted through Questbridge or Posse who also have very rigorous selection processes which start long before the applications arrive at the colleges’ admission offices.