Theory v. Practice RE: Non-traditional students

<p>I've been looking at different admissions websites and many of the residential LACs state that they welcome non-trads, but when I check their common data sets (many are posted here</a>), they're in the 0%-1% range. Why do these schools have so few non-trads? I understand that the great majority of non-trads are in two-year and state schools, but I still find this curious. Perhaps many LACs don't have need-blind admissions, and thus applicants self-select to an extent. </p>

<p>Any thoughts?</p>