<p>My d is a jr. who fell in love with Bowdoin. This year they accepted one athlete from our public competitive hs. There were other more academically qualified students who were deferred. My d who is not an athlete was going to apply ED1 in 2011, but is she statistically better off applying ED2 and not competing with athletes ?</p>
<p>Athletes apply in the ED2 round too and the admit rate is quite a bit lower for ED2 so I don’t think that she would gain by going the ED2 route over the ED1 route . .</p>
<p>Ok, Thanks for the helpful information. I guess there is no easy answer!</p>
<p>She should apply regardless! They will at least know it is her first choice and if she were deferred, that factor could help out w/admissions!</p>
<p>But she is only a junior and can just as easily apply ED1 as ED2. There’s no reason for her to wait for the ED2 round, where the numbers of admittees is so small (in comparison to ED1 or RD).</p>
<p>According to Bowdoin’s Common Data Set for '09-'10, Level of Interest is one of four factors not considered, so that may mean that in the RD round, the fact that an applicant was deferred ED does not confer an advantage in RD process. Of course, this could just be for publication purposes.</p>
<p>I’m an athlete this year and I ended up applying ED 2. I hope I get in but you never know. From visiting most of the NESCAC schools, I know that athletics is important to those schools. Since they are all small and selective, coaches can only support a certain amount of athletes. They cannot support through regular decision because the supported person can ultimately choose not to go there and take a spot at a great school like Bowdoin from a qualified applicant, so they use ED II as a way to finish up their recruiting class because the accepted athlete has to go to that school. Therefore, I think ED II is more concentrated with athletes that have the support of coaches, which gives them a huge advantage over a regular student (like your daughter I assume). And thus, it is much harder for a regular student with fantastic academic credentials to get in.</p>
<p>PS it took me a while to figure this out but Bowdoin is the best! which is why I decided to apply!</p>
<p>I would not suggest even considering the athletic recruiting cycle for a non-athlete applicant. It is true that EDI and EDII are the main vehicles used to secure recruited athletes at Bowdoin … however that does not mean, by any means, that EDI and EDII are used mostly for recruiting purpuses … it is one of the uses of EDI and EDII. Personally, if Bowdoin is your daughter’s clear first choice and you do not have concerns about financial aid applying EDI or EDII makes perfect sense to me. </p>
<p>(Posted as a parent who has one child who was an ED admit to a school and another child who LOVES Bowdoin)</p>
<p>Thanks 3togo and hopeful97, I appreciated both your viewpoints!</p>
<p>I did not mean it like both ED I and EDII are like that because I know a lot of people that got in ED I that aren’t athletes. I was talking more about ED II. I think it would be better if her daughter applied ED II than ED I but that’s just my opinion</p>
<p>For the class of 2014, this was the situation: For ED I, 36% of the applicants were admitted (184/510), but only 18% (36) of the 200 ED II kids got in. S was a recruited athlete in that class and was very happy to be admitted ED II. He loves Bowdoin. At his small private HS, all three students who applied ED I this year (one of them an athlete, but probably not on the coach’s recruit list) were deferred. Athlete or not, 3togo’s comment re applying ED I if Bowdoin is the clear first choice and there’s no financial aid concern, is the best advice.</p>
<p>Mindy – here is a report from today’s Bowdoin Orient about applications for the class of '15 and ED I results, just the numbers, nothing re athletes in particular:
[In</a> historically hard year, 189 students admitted via ED I - The Bowdoin Orient](<a href=“http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2011-01-21§ion=1&id=5]In”>http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2011-01-21§ion=1&id=5)</p>