The annual list of top Fulbright producing institutions is out. As usual, the NESCAC is well represented. For Fulbright students, the schools tagged Top Producer:
Also producing Fulbright students: Colby (2), Trinity (2), Conn College (1). Weirdly, Tufts is listed as a Top Producer in the summary article. But doesn’t show up in the data table.
The entire NESCAC getting it done. 
Ugh. Depressing.
Tufts 13
Tufts is probably in the research university section.
I just saw online (Bowdoin Orient) that Bowdoin received another record high application total (14,000). Last year, it was 13k. I’m wondering if Bates and Colby also saw another jump, or any of the NESCACs? Have other numbers been released? Just curious. NESCAC always seems to pull a lot of interest.
Those interested in such trends also may be interested in the source of such application increases. Last year, for example, 40% of Bowdoin’s applicants were of international origin.
One of my pet peeves with the Wesleyan student newspaper is their complete indifference, bordering on incompetence, when it comes to covering the admissions cycle. Nearly every year, rabidly interested alum like myself have to await the Office of the Dean of Admissions Report.
Right, but when you think about it, that indifference is about as Wesleyan as Wesleyan gets.
It seems to me to cut against the grain of that school’s culture and ethos to sit around and value and obsess and boast and broadcast (pick a verb) how much harder it has become to get into Wesleyan. Like, it’s almost mealy-mouthed the way we all engage in the exercise of confirming our own, or our children’s, eliteness. A very un-Wes-like thing to do.
I recall during some time at Berkeley noticing the same contradiction. On the one hand, this is the place where the term “virtue-signaling” was or should have been invented. The proverbial place for the people and about the people and is not only public but also the very definition of a “come as you are; you are valued” culture. But then again, Cal folk are also very proud of themselves in a different way that is focused on exclusivity and, again, eliteness.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s all fine with me. I’ve just always noted the implied contradiction. 
Do we know whether or not the office of admission is willing to release information to the Argus at an early stage such as now?
True.
I don’t think it’s top secret information. Ten years ago, there would have been at least an article covering the Early Decision results by now. My honest opinion is that the present generation’s time is stretched in so many differerent directions these days that, as @cquin85 suggests, covering how many people get rejected every year just doesn’t make the cut.
For context, I asked because at a few other schools recent policy has been to avoid releasing admission information until around the time that it will be needed for formal reports. The principle, it appears, is to discourage competition across schools with respect to comparative acceptance rates.
Cite?
This is an example from the Harvard Crimson:
This year, three Ivy League schools — the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, and Princeton — declined to release admissions data on the day acceptance letters were sent out, a trend Stanford started in 2018. Cornell first stopped publicizing its data in 2020.
“The main result we observe is stories that aim to identify which universities experience the most demand and have the lowest admit rates,” Stanford Provost Persis Drell said in the 2018 announcement. “That is not a race we are interested in being a part of.”
Harvard has continued to release its admissions data — including this March, when the College accepted a record-low 3.19 percent of applicants. Asked about the school’s policies, Harvard College spokesperson Rachael Dane wrote that the school has “made no decisions regarding sharing this information.”
“Neither prospective students nor the University benefit from the admissions process being boiled down in headlines to a single statistic like the admission rate,” Princeton University’s Dean of Admissions Karen Richardson wrote in a column earlier this month. “We do not want to discourage prospective students from applying to Princeton because of its selectivity.”
[As Acceptance Rates Fall, Some Ivy League Universities Stop Publicizing Admissions Data | News | The Harvard Crimson]
My hunch is that NESCAC schools are more than happy to advertise how rejective they are.
This is kind of general, but I’d expect regression toward the historical mean at some point, with acceptance rates rising in the future at many schools currently reporting very low or ultra low acceptance rates.
Back to NESCAC! All sports are equal, of course, but in NESCAC, ice hockey is more equal than others. The NESCAC Quarterfinals begin Saturday: Hamilton is your Men’s #1 seed, Amherst your Women’s #1. How will the tournament end? Is there a Frozen Four team on the horizon? Dun dun dunnnnnn…
Given the percentage of applicants that are international at many of the NESCACS (further up the thread - 40% at Bowdoin, and above 30% at many others), and given the state of US politics right now, I would not be surprised at all to see a reduction in international applicants, and thus rejectivity, at these schools.
NESCAC hockey has been super fun to follow!
This Conde Nast Traveler gallery first posted in 2023, has been “updated”. IIRC, Amherst has been added to two other NESCACs, Middlebury and Wesleyan:
rooting for our continentals!