<p>They would be even for law school.</p>
<p>interesting, man its sucha tough choice</p>
<p>I knew one guy at Colgate who was accepted at Colby who got into Colgate as a Feb-frosh, which meant he couldn't start at Colgate until the Freshman Spring semester. Still, he chose to bypass Colby and start at Colgate a semester late. I was surprised by this and although liked Colgate much more, if I was in his situation would probably not have done the same. </p>
<p>I think you're a good enough candidate that you're better off applying to both RD. I know that college admissions have become harder, but there's a point where you can't try to game the system anymore because so much of the process is random and luck anyway. Plus, you obviously liked Amherst better than either and by doing ED II, you're 100% stopping yourself from going there. Personally, if I had applied somewhere ED, I would want to at least give myself the opportunity of seeing it through.</p>
<p>Both schools are so close in academic stature/rep that it won't make a difference.</p>
<p>Their biggest difference is probably size (despite, both being considered LACs).</p>
<p>You are more likely to run into the same faces at Colby than you are at Colgate (plus, unless things have changed recently, Colgate has an active Greek system while Colby is "Greek-free").</p>
<p>ya, and my only problem with bowdoin si taht it seems to "hippie"</p>
<p>I know plenty of people who went to Bowdoin that I wouldn't come close to characterizing as "hippie", so I wouldn't let that stop you from applying. I have a good friend from Colgate, who on his tour at Bowdoin decided the school was too liberal, which seems similar to you assessment. While he certainly seemed satisfied with his Colgate experience, I feel this inaccurate conclusion stopped him from pursuing what could also have been a good experience for him from all the people I've met from Bowdoin since.</p>
<p>hmmm true....</p>
<p>Well - you will find a lot of "crunchie" types at Colby and Colgate (as well as many of the "preppy" types).</p>
<p>Certainly true.</p>
<p>what is a crunchie</p>
<p>Colby far stronger than Colgate, which is full of Ivy rejects. People go to Colby because they want to, not out of bitter disappointment.</p>
<p>Colgate fills 40% of its class through ED - it's a school full of kids who want to be there.</p>
<p>ya, but htey have liek a 60% ED acceptance rate</p>
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<p>LOL!!</p>
<p>Well, they're kinda hard to describe accurately (it's more of a "you know one when you see one" kinda thing).</p>
<p>But basically, crunchies are a toned-down (or more modern) version of hippies.</p>
<p>They tend to be into nature and outdoor activities w/o being really hardcore.</p>
<p>I guess you can say they are somewhere inbtwn a hippie (do they even exist today?) and a prep - (for example, crunchies wear plaid flannel and sandals, but often it's from JCrew, Ralph Lauren, etc.).</p>
<p>It's possible you were thinking of crunchies when you thought of Bowdoin.</p>
<p>no i was thinking of hippies</p>
<p>for geology?</p>
<p>I think last year was the first year that Colgate's ED acceptance rate was over 50% (and is what wasn't 60%, it was ~ 51%) and I get the impression that the reason is they're getting a higher quality candidate pool as more people who previously would have applied to Dartmouth and Williams are figuring they have little chance there and are applying to Colgate instead. </p>
<p>redcrimblue, considering that Colby's yield is 35% and Colgate is 34%, I hardly think your statement is true. Now maybe, more of Colgate's rejects applied to Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, while more of Colby's rejects applied to Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, so more of Colgate's rejects are Ivy rejects in a relative measure, but they are about the same level of rejects on an absolute level.</p>
<p>I think the high acceptance rate ED supports my point - students who apply ED to Colgate know they have a pretty good chance of getting in (assuming stats in a range) and they really want to go there. It's a nice thing to go to a school that was a first choice for 40% of the student body.</p>
<p>ya i guess</p>
<p>so im thinking colaget now - is it true rush isnt till sophmore year</p>