Accepted to Ivy stats
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Anonymous
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Sorry, I know this may be a trigger for many, so apologies in advance.
But I’m really curious for those who have kids accepted this cycle early or last year. What is your kids special-ness, in your opinion (And I don’t mean that snarkily!) |
Anonymous
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Princeton early
1580 4.8 weighted Many ECs with leadership 12 APs Asian Large public hs, competitive state Very charismatic person with probably excellent letters |
Anonymous
Top high school? Private? |
Anonymous
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Ivies are about more than stats. Assume everyone is near perfect.
You should ask about what sets a successful applicant apart. |
Anonymous
Sounds just like my kid who was rejected, except not Asian, 10points lower in SAT, higher in WGPA. Also, top magnet program, nmsf, nat'l awards, awards in a variety of ECs. OP, it's a bit of a lottery at this level. PP, congrats to your kid! |
Anonymous
+10000 I often found it funny when people ask for stats for top school admits. They totally didn't know what's going on. |
Anonymous
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Yep, admissions is luck of the draw currently. If the AO reviewing the app does not resonate with it, then it will be a rejection. I am not saying the accepted kids are not capable - they are. There are just so many of them all competing for the same limited number of spots.
They don't think it be like it is, but it do. |
Anonymous
Magnet is tough. You are competing with all the other magnets to be out on top and then competing against the rest of the applicants in the public and private sector. Just getting out above the rest in an all A type magnet program is extremely competitive. |
Anonymous
Agree. It is like asking if you got accepted to ivies did you go to high school |
Anonymous
| The high stats just buy you the lottery ticket... |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
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So one actual answer and a ton of speculation.
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Anonymous
People keep saying this but I got a PhD at an ivy league school and both sat in a couple classes with undergrads and taught a couple classes to undergrads. There is a sizable minority of absolute buffoons in ivy league undergrad programs. And it's not the athletes |
Anonymous
And you should listen to some of these ivy students carry on about the doctoral candidate TAs tasked with doing some of the instructional work. They are less than impressed. It a college full of young adults folks. Bright folks but there are definitely a bunch of idiots there as well. |
Anonymous
And what hook they had. |