How do you think about acceptance rate?

Mwfan1921
Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:04:02 +0000

NiceUnparticularMan:

So I am not sure how Middlebury knows, but it does seem to know when kids from high schools like ours are doing something like that.

Schools receive a student’s info when the student adds the school to their My Colleges list on the common app, so there’s that. So, if the add happens on Dec 15, a school could see that as suspect, especially if there had been no other engagement with the school prior to then (mailing list registration, virtual or in-person visit, etc.)

NiceUnparticularMan:

I note it can be fun to play around with Parchment for these purposes, just to see where they have data.

I don’t know. All the college data Parchment has is student self-reported (and not verified.) So, kids can say anything. Or adults can pose as kids. I will say sometimes the data seem reasonable, but I wouldn’t draw any conclusions from the head to head results. Garbage in, garbage out.