<p>Ah…it’s a listing of NACAC-member colleges and universities that are still accepting applications for Fall 2014 freshman and/or transfer admission. I had no clue :"> </p>
<p>Gonzaga, Holy Cross, ASU, Baylor, Hendrix, Clark, App State, Augustana, Bethel, Coastal carolina, Eckerd, Kettering, Knox, La Salle, Linfield, Marquette, Marshall, Regis, St. Joe’s, Seton Hall, St. Bonaventure’s, St. John’s, Stetson, bunch of SUNY’s (oswego), UofA, Truman State, UMBC, Uni of Florida (??), U Mass Lowell, UNLV, Uni of Toledo, Uni of Wisconsin, Utica, Wittenberg…</p>
<p>Plenty more^^^^^^^^ Just a few!!!</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>Some nice places on the list. I note that the College of Wooster, which was a perennial list-maker, is not on it this year. (Maybe the word about Wooster finally got out?) But Eckerd remains. That one is hard to figure. And Knox…</p>
<p>The UW listings are for two other campuses–NOT Madison.</p>
<p>That was Holy Cross College in IN, not the College of the Holy Cross in MA, but I was surprised by a few, too, especially the University of Vermont, the University of Iowa and the University of Florida–all in USN&WR’s Top 50 Public Universities. I’m wondering if somebody goofed!</p>
<p>UF is just for a few transfer majors - the only freshman spots still open would be for the online cohort.</p>
<p>First time looking at the list but I was surprised by Gonzaga and a few others (I mostly check PNW). </p>
<p>There are indeed some very good schools on the list. </p>
<p>Given the rising number of app’s per student, it must increasingly be a nightmare for admissions officers to correctly gauge yield.</p>
<p>I wonder why 3 very different public schools in MD are on the list. </p>
<p>Dumb question, but is it reasonable to assume that these would therefore be good safety schools for my B student (with reasonably good SAT scores) for next year? </p>
<p>Momzie - that is not a dumb question. It is one source for a list of colleges that for the most part do not have highly competitive admissions. Also, if a college has trouble filling their class one year, they may accept a higher percentage of students the following year.</p>
<p>Some of these colleges serve high number of part-time and older students, who are more likely to apply late in the year.</p>
<p>Just note that admissions vary among programs. A college may have had very competitive admissions in their nursing and engineering programs, but has space left in their liberal arts program, for example.</p>
<p>P.S. - I think this list may have shrunk in number of colleges from previous years. Also, note that some colleges are only listed for having some transfer seats available.</p>
<p>It may have very little to do with the relative selectivity of a college, and more to do with poor prediction of yield. So if they overestimated the number of students who would confirm attendance after getting an offer of admission, they could have empty seats after May 1.</p>
<p>I heard somewhere that this is a waitlist-list. Is that true, or is it just colleges that are still accepting apps?</p>
<p>@TempeMom Yea I’m surprised by Gonzaga as well. It’s really the only school of its kind in the PNW and seems to share quite a few similarities with the very popular Villanova</p>
<p>Possibly more important is that many of the smaller privates listed here will likely increase their discount rate for next year’s applicants. I would expect schools like Clark (MA), Cornell College (Iowa), and Gonzaga to give more high dollar discounts to relatively wealthy applicants so as to prevent appearing on this list in the future. </p>
<p>Yes, I was also surprised by Clark in Worcester and U Vt.</p>
<p>@bodangles, they are accepting apps.</p>
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Excellent question. </p>
<p>ExpatSon applied to 7 ‘match’ colleges, and was accepted at 5. The 2 schools that rejected / waitlisted him both appear on the list (and, curiously (to me), the WL school ranked last, by quite some margin). </p>
<p>So, I would not make that assumption. </p>
<p>After spending a year immersed in this process, I’ve decided that one ought not to make any assumptions. (Tho’ I’m a big fan of realism & cautious optimism.) </p>
<p>@Charliesch - My saved a copy of last year’s list shows 294 schools; there are 360 in this year’s list.</p>
<p>Yes, we were stunned at the schools which waitlisted my son – given that they were schools where he was above the 75th percentile. We had expected merit aid – not the waitlist! That’s an excellent point, that maybe these were schools that somehow massively under/overestimated student preferences – rather than being a sign of any sort of underlying issues, including desperation. I’m thinking that perhaps a school that ends up on this list for MULTIPLE years, however, might either:
a. be in some sort of poor economic straits that might indicate it might not be around forever (I had heard rumors about Montreat College for several years, for example)
b. be a school that is becoming somewhat less competitive than it might have been previously?</p>
<p>I think you and I are on the same page, however, expat – in terms of “never assume anything.”</p>
<p>I have a kid who has a great verbal score on the ACT but not on the SAT and a great math score on the SAT but not the ACT and I’ve been wondering if any schools will say “Well, clearly the ACT shows she can read and write and the SAT shows she can do math” and will therefore disregard the lower scores on each exam – but I’m thinking I probably shouldn’t assume that either.</p>
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Quite a few schools on the list have relatively poor bond ratings when their financial health is examined. Long Island University, Green Mountain College, and American Jewish University are all other examples of this. If it weren’t so time consuming, it would be interesting to make a spreadsheet of schools on the list and their fiscal health ratings from multiple agencies. Of course, much of the financial health is based upon how selective a school is, so even a school with an enormous endowment per student endowment like Berry College will be dinged.</p>
<p>Knox and Lawrence are need blind and full need. Big surprises. </p>
<p>University of Vermont is also a surprise. </p>
<p>One thing I haven’t seen this year is many students with no place to go. </p>