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Nope. It included other schools, including Carleton, Haverford, etc.]
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<p>I don't recall those schools one way or the other, just that Colgate wasn't on there while other schools that one would think would have less overlap like Hamilton or Trinity were on there.</p>
<p>colby, carleton, davidson, usc, william and mary, ucsd, tufts, bc,</p>
<p>UMD, Oberlin, Kenyon, Wesleyan, and Reed.</p>
<p>Son is a Dartmouth Reject. (And I was right when I told him he was in good company if he got in and good company if he didn't. Little did I know there could be a whole club that are proud to say it!)</p>
<p>Applying NOW to an interesting mix: Colgate, Middlebury, Amherst, Tufts, John Hopkins, Georgetown, and maybe Wake Forest and Davidson. After the D rejection, I am a little concerned with whether he has enough Likely schools in addition to the Possibles and Reaches.</p>
<p>And I know these schools are kinda all over the place, but once rejected he opened up his thinking and even in the past two months has a somewhat different thinking then he did when he sent in the ED application.</p>
<p>Modadunn:</p>
<p>Where is your son's safety school? I don't see one on the list.</p>
<p>one differentiation with NESCAC and like LACs : Colgate plays D I athletics (except football) . Ivy and Patriot league sports are on a whole different level than NESCAC / D III. some kids attracted to that level of sport / atmosphere (nothing like a big time Saturday night hockey game !!)</p>
<p>Our school doesn't call them safety schools, we go by likely, possible and reaches. According to his college counselor, Colgate is a likely. And high on his list.</p>
<p>Modadunn, I'd recommend adding a more safetylike school. Even if your son is "likely" to get into Colgate (which I understand since my kids' school uses the same vocabulary and both my kids were told that Colgate was a "likely" for them), Colgate isn't really a good safety school for anyone. My kids' school also used the concept of "very likely" (!), and I think you need one school in that category to be safe in this admissions environment.</p>
<p>Believe me, I don't disagree. However, I really do trust his counselor and the School's reputation (and results) to give him sound advice. He met with her yesterday and will probably (hopefully) come home with one more he'd be "happy to attend" today.</p>
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one differentiation with NESCAC and like LACs : Colgate plays D I athletics (except football) . Ivy and Patriot league sports are on a whole different level than NESCAC / D III. some kids attracted to that level of sport / atmosphere (nothing like a big time Saturday night hockey game !!)
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<p>And many are turned off by it.</p>
<p>^^^^ agree arcadia. Go NESCAC! (even though my H went to 'Gate!!!)</p>
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... Colgate plays D I athletics (except football).
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<p>Actually Colgate football is also DI. They play the likes of Georgetown, Cornell, Bucknell, Dartmouth and this year lost to Villanova in the NCAA playoffs first round.</p>
<p>Colgate is 1AA in football - a notch below D1, but several notches above D3 football. Years ago Colgate was D1 in football. Colgate offers athletic scholarships in all sports except football.</p>
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Colgate is 1AA in football - a notch below D1, but several notches above D3 football. Years ago Colgate was D1 in football. Colgate offers athletic scholarships in all sports except football.
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<p>Colgate was D-1AA, but now the nomenclature has changed and it's called something like non-BCS D-I championship series, because they can play in playoff games at the end of the season instead of bowl games. After offering no official athletic scholarships in the past, I thought Colgate now offers limited athletic scholarships in hockey, football, basketball and nothing in anything else?</p>
<p>Colgate offers scholarships in nearly every sport (it actually now may be every sport) but not football. Athletic scholarships started in 2004, for the class of '08 who just graduated. The number of scholarships varies by sport. The recent success of the mens lacrosse team is one direct result. </p>
<p>Whether or not there should also be scholarships in football is a subject of a good deal of debate - some of the Patriot League supports going to scholarships, and some PL schools don't. Go to the voy forum for Colgate and you'll find alums debating football scholarships ad nauseam (they want them!)</p>
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Go to the voy forum for Colgate and you'll find alums debating football scholarships ad nauseam (they want them!)
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<p>What is the voy forum?</p>
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Go to the voy forum for Colgate and you'll find alums debating football scholarships ad nauseam (they want them!)
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<p>What is the voy forum?</p>