Ah ha - thanks!!
Congrats on the acceptances! Tough year. Just saw that Vassar (similar to NESCAC schools) received 12,000 apps, which also seems to be a record. Will be interesting to see data from Hamilton, etc.
Edit: Williams, Amherst, Tufts here (7-10 percent acceptance for this year) Class of 2028 Admission Rates | IvyWise
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Colbyâs info in this article.https://news.colby.edu/story/class-of-2028-admitted-to-colby/
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6.6 acceptance! Wow. Was that the lowest of the NESCACs this year?
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I think it may be! (I havenât seen Bowdoinâs yet).
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Colby and Bowdoin might be lower than Cornell and Penn this year?
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Donât put too much stake into acceptance % numbers. Every school manages them differently. Take a look at ED numbers, yield, etc. Colby is easy to apply to, no? (Donât know)
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Colby is easy to apply to: no supplemental essay or video and no application fee.
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Can anyone find Colbyâs CDS? Curious how many students are accepted ED.
Just did a basic search and found nothing recent.
Colby hasnât completed a CDS for a number of years. You might check the student newspaper for ED info.
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True. No app fee. Bowdoin and Bates both have a fee.
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Bowdoin automatically waives their application fee for first-generation applicants and for those who are applying for financial aid.
https://www.bowdoin.edu/admissions/apply/fee-waiver-policy/index.html
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Bowdoinâs acceptance rate 7%, highest # of applicants and lowest acceptance rate ever.
https://bowdoinorient.com/2024/03/29/bowdoin-admits-7-percent-of-applicants-to-class-of-2028-lowest-rate-ever-in-college-history/
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I know admissions numbers donât tell a full story (e.g. they are influenced by whether apps are free, extra essays, yield protection - U of chicago Iâm looking at you, SAT requirements, etc.), but thereâs no denying that the Maine NESCACs are very difficult to get into these days!
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Bates posted total number of applications received but not an admit rate yet.
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Actually they reference 13% in this admissions video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCtWAK-8i5w
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That makes sense that Bates is accepting more students this year than last year, since kids applied to lots of schools. Also could be because they added a new dorm which will open this summer and provide extra housing if needed. It has a fantastic location right across from campus and near the bookstore.
I cannot imagine how admissions teams do the forecasting to get their class to just the right size. I guess thatâs what makes the waitlist handy.
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From what I have read, these days they are mostly using really sophisticated yield models into which they can dump all sorts of data, including everything in the application plus what they can get from Landscape, a College Board service that collates all sorts of information about high schools and residential locations.
But like with everything involving the complexities of human behavior on a group level, those models tend to work OK only until some major unexpected external event happens to shake up the systemârecessions, pandemics, and so forth. Then suddenly a whole bunch of colleges can end up underenrolled, overenrolled, first one then the other, and so on, until the models stabilize again.
Fun stuff from a theoretical perspective, but it makes predicting waitlist prospects very hard. Ideally a college would only need a waitlist to fill a few specific holes in their target class (those elusive kids from the 48th/49th/50th states, the proverbial orchestra tuba player, maybe a few full pay kids to balance the operating budget, and so on). But if their model is off in one direction, they may be able to take no one, or almost no one. And if it is off in another direction, they may take more just to fill slots. And all this can be affected by what happened in recent years too . . . quite the complex system to be trying to predict.
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