Most likely yield protection. I know 5 kids in town who were accepted with slightly lower SATs (1450-1530), all receiving merit or FA.
Did they send those SAT scores in the 1400s, or apply TO?
Bowdoin does not offer any merit aid, only need based aid.
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Bowdoin does offer a National Merit Scholarship that is not need based.
Son just got notified he got the $2500 award from National Merit. Am I correct in understanding that the NM award and $1000 for the next 3 years will be in addition to FA?
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My H is a Bowdoin alum, but I donāt have a horse in this race. (D20 applied EDI to Hamilton and S23 applied to larger schools with Engineering departments.) But, I thought I would jump in to offer another perspective on kids with high stats getting rejected or waitlisted from Bowdoin.
My niece is a junior at a top-ranked private school in NE. The head college counselor told her mom (my sister) that they always consider Bowdoin āa wild cardā with admissions. She said, āBowdoin was doing holistic admissions before holistic admissions was even a thing.ā She said every year students with lower stats from their school make it in to Bowdoin while some higher ones are rejected. Why? Because they value personality and fit above all else. She said they are VERY aware of building a community and really try to select students that they think will thrive there and be an asset to the community on and off campus. They look for students that professors would love to teach, other students would want to befriend, and larger community members wouldnāt mind interacting with. While applicants need to demonstrate they can succeed academically, they donāt have to have one of the top GPAs from their high school to get admitted.
Iām not saying this means rejected or waitlisted Bowdoin applicants donāt have any of those qualities. Iām just saying that this head college counselor (from a top-ranked private school) has seen admissions there for over a decade and has always believed that stats and leadership alone just donāt make the cut. So perhaps that is why people are seeing students with lower stats being accepted over their peers.
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Was responding to comment on skidmore
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True (although in all fairness their website directly says āBowdoin does not provide merit aidā in purple highlighting). Types of Aid | Bowdoin College
2021-22 CDS does show 11 students received the $1,000 first year award, sections H2a-N and O.
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Does anyone know the total number of students that were accepted for the class of 2027?
Thank you!
They havenāt announced that yet. Most likely the Bowdoin Orient will do an article within a week from getting back from their spring break and usually admission gives them all the stats.
If they admitted a number based on a similar yield assumption as the last few years, it will end up being 8xx students, probably not on the high side of that range. This will likely result in an acceptance rate of 7.x% overall ā they had a record number of applicants this year.
DD accepted. This is her dream school. Strong across the board but assumed she wouldnāt get in because of the low acceptance rate. This is our most expensive option (mostly applied to schools with merit aid since I was thinking we likely wouldnāt qualify for need based aid and didnāt) so lots to think about. Seems like a great school.
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For those interested, hereās a couple useful references.
Hereās the Bowdoin Orient article that came out after ED that has overall application stats:
And hereās a great resource Bowdoin has on their website on various stats. This link is to admissions and is only up through last year right now but thereās other stats on outcomes, budget, etc. I appreciate their transparency.
Itās just $1000 a year for NMF lol.
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Congratulations. Iām sure she will be happy there
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Admissions released stats. 850 admitted from a total of 10,966 applications.
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So a 7.75% admit rate this year.
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Yes. Overallā¦but way less for RD. They donāt break it out in the story. The other numbers surprised me a bit too. 27% first generation. Wow.
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Clear institutional priority, as are students of color (54% of admits, in this context students of color include Asians).
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Wowza!
Would you know where/how to access those data?
do you mean the RD acceptance rate? Wonāt be able to figure that out until well into next year when they release how many applied ED, accepted ED, applied RD, accepted RD.
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