Apps Down?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Colgate University
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<p>That was me with the chacon part, it's french not latin :-)
Yeah, but i'm not going to wes.
Hooray for horrific financial aid!</p>

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<p>Other schools too have noticed a drop in SAT scores.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/10/AR2006051001435.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/10/AR2006051001435.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Another article in the Times:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/11/education/11sat.html?_r=1&oref=login%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/11/education/11sat.html?_r=1&oref=login&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>seems fairly widespread.</p>

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<p>Those articles only cite the avg SATs for applicants, not accepted students. The only college that referenced both (Dickinson) said that although the applicant pool scores were down 6 points that the accepted pool was up 8 points. However, Colgate reported that their accepted pool was down 6 points, probably related to getting less applicants than the year before.</p>

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<p>I don't think 136 fewer applications could drive SAT scores down by 6 points.</p>

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<p>I doubt it's the main reason too and probably has a lot more to do with a slightly weaker applicant pool, since they actually accepted 42 more students than the year before despite 136 less applicants.</p>