Which LAC is best for me?

johnwesley
Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:55:00 +0000

Gellino - your freshman year memories are getting cloudy. Wesleyan and Colgate have always been within a few points of each other in terms of raw acceptance rates:

Fall 1997 - Colgate -36%, Wesleyan - 36%

Fall 2007 - 28% - Colgate, Wesleyan - 28%

However, that being said, I still think Wesleyan’s applicant pool is stronger. All of the schools you mention (Dartmouth, Williams, Bowdoin, Colgate, Middlebury, Washington & Lee, Colby, Bucknell, Union, Lafayette) have reputations for heavy drinking, emphasis on athletics and the general homogeneity of their student bodies. Perhaps, that has all changed within the last ten years, but, for some significant portions of America those are still turn-offs.