<p>Does Hamilton send acceptance letters to superior applicants several weeks before it notifies everyone else? Does anyone know of any small liberal arts colleges that employ this practice?</p>
<p>I don’t think so. Everyone gets their decision on the same day (which is March 26th for RD applicants) online at the MyHamilton website. And i’m not familiar with any Liberal Arts college that employs that practice. I mean, there is ED and ED2, but other than that I don’t think so. Unless it’s rolling admissions, but that depends on how early you applied.</p>
<p>There are numerous top LACs that employ the “early write” practice.</p>
<p>Ones that come to mind are Williams, Amherst, and Bowdoin (schools that I’m quite familiar with), though I’m sure there are others as well.</p>
<p>I had no idea that this practice was used at other highly ranked liberal arts colleges. Is this information on college board? What is advantageous about this practice for the school? Why wouldn’t they wait until all other decisions are released?</p>
<p>^So that they have a higher probability of recruiting their very best applicants.</p>
<p>The game of college admissions…trying to help out the yield rate</p>
<p>It seems that it is happening at Williams at the very moment:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/williams-college/876225-early-writes.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/williams-college/876225-early-writes.html</a></p>
<p>My S was an “early write” at Colgate. He applied RD and was shocked when he was accepted in late February.</p>
<p>Well, it is also happening at Kenyon</p>
<p>Indirect “Early Writes” at Lehigh by inviting students on an all expenses paid weekend to Lehigh for April 17-19th, 2 weeks after acceptances are issued.</p>
<p>“early Writes” are also used by William and Mary. I can also verify that they are used at Amherst and Williams.</p>
<p>in the Ivies from time to time. Last year Dartmouth definitely used them.</p>