i turned down____for CMC/4 out of 5 most selective lacs in claremont

Colleges and Universities A-Z Claremont McKenna College
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Well, boys and girls:
I think its time to re-vitalize my two previous threads, combining them into one.

Now that the class of 2020 is pretty well intact, it would be interesting to hear from some of you admits, as to which schools you turned down in favor of Claremont. Last year’s thread included Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, Penn, Cornell, Pomona, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Middlebury,Duke, Vandy, UCBerkeley, UCLA , U of Chicago,among others.

In conjunction with this thread, it looks like - for the second year in a row- 4 of the 5 most selective LACs ,based on admit rate only, are part of the Claremont consortium.

I won’t do all the usual disclaimers…I know, ,admit rate is not necessarily the only indicator of how selective a college is…Pitzer a ‘better’ / more selective school than Amherst, or Williams? Of course not. .
But, it is interesting that the Claremont consortium is gaining recognition nationally/internationally,which is far overdue IMO.

On the list below, the only change in top 5 is, last year, Claremont McKenna was the most selective LAC w 9.76% admit rate, barely edging out Pomoma. For class of 2020, Pomona was #1,with rate of 9.2%,edging out CMC at 9.4%, which is not surprising.in light of the fact that Forbes rated them #1 In the country…,not just for LACs but for all colleges and universities.

Below is copied from another CC post:
04-16-2016 at 2:43 pm
Admission rates have been going down at many colleges as students apply to more and more schools (via the Common App, in particular). This includes top LACs. Latest data for some LACs from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/04/01/applied-to-stanford-or-harvard-you-probably-didnt-get-in-admit-rates-drop-again/ :

School Applicants Admitted 2016 Admitted 2015

Pomona 8,104 9.2% 10.3%
Claremont McKenna 6,342 9.4% 11.0%
Swarthmore 7,717 12.5% 12.5%
Harvey Mudd 4,180 12.6% 13.0%
Pitzer 4,142 12.9% 13.5%
Amherst 8,406 13.8% 14.1%
Bowdoin 6,799 14.3% 14.9%
Middlebury 8,820 16.0% 17.4%
Williams 6,982 17.3% 17.6%
Davidson 5,614 19.6% 22.1%
Carleton 6,470 22.6% 20.6%
Smith 5,252 37.2% 37.9%

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Can’t say for sure, and I’m not willing to put in the effort to find out, but I’m pretty sure that list doesn’t represent the top 5 most selective LACs. First off, as you’ve already admitted, admit rate doesn’t always equate to selectivity. Also, I think there are some LACs with lower admit rates that don’t appear in USN&WR top 25.

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I would be interested to hear if that’s true. I can’t think of any top LACs which wouldn’t be included,however, other than Reed which doesn’t report to USNews (at least they didnt used to), and Deep Springs College, which is truly an ‘outlier.’