I actually think that Beloit can still be regarded as a safety for kids who have the stats, because I don’t believe it plays the yield protection games that so many schools do. I think many Midwest LACs still make admission decisions in a pretty straightforward fashion. Partly this is because they struggle for enrollment, but partly because they know that certain strong Midwest students really may prefer a local option.
I agree that Beloit is a terrific school and doesn’t get enough love on CC. I tried to get my S22 to consider Beloit due to its marvelous Museum Studies, including proven placement of its grads into top grad programs and jobs that my kid would consider dream jobs (curator at The Met etc.) But he was dead set on NYC (wouldn’t even consider Vassar, another school that I thought would be a great fit for him, because he really did want to be in the city not a train ride away.)