Good luck for Ivy Day!

[Anonymous]

For all the kids and parents who have worked hard for the last few years, with their eyes set on getting into an Ivy, good luck today!

[Anonymous]

Good luck to the kids and parents!

[Anonymous]

For all the kids and parents who have worked hard for the last few years, with their eyes set on getting into an Ivy, good luck today!

I hope there are no kids who have worked hard with Ivy admittance as their goal - and the parents should not be working in any way for that (their college season is long over)!

[Anonymous]

It is hard work to raise a teenager. It is one of the least rewarding phases of parenting...but we already love them by this age, so we keep on keeping on.

[Anonymous]

Is it at 7 pm?

[Anonymous]

In or not, they can put this phase of college admissions behind then and focus on choosing among their many great options. Encourage them to get excited about a school, roommates, new places, new adventures.

And remember it’s a lottery. Not a referendum on all of your student’s hard work or on your parenting decisions.

Good luck.

[Anonymous]

Good luck! It takes only one acceptance!

[Anonymous]

Just attended a talk yesterday where a college counselor said that NO ONE was safe anymore when applying at any institution with a 20% or lower admit rate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is hard work to raise a teenager. It is one of the least rewarding phases of parenting...but we already love them by this age, so we keep on keeping on.

Does it get better in the twenties?

[Anonymous]

Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Just attended a talk yesterday where a college counselor said that NO ONE was safe anymore when applying at any institution with a 20% or lower admit rate.

This is old news. If a school accepts 2 in 10 applicants (and most Top 20 schools select less than 1), no kid is a guarantee. But my hunch is that a special kid will get into some top school. I would advise the kid to take his shot ED, and then have a big backup plan. I have not heard of a valedictorian being shut out completely, for example. She may not get into an Ivy but she will get in somewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Just attended a talk yesterday where a college counselor said that NO ONE was safe anymore when applying at any institution with a 20% or lower admit rate.

This is old news. If a school accepts 2 in 10 applicants (and most Top 20 schools select less than 1), no kid is a guarantee. But my hunch is that a special kid will get into some top school. I would advise the kid to take his shot ED, and then have a big backup plan. I have not heard of a valedictorian being shut out completely, for example. She may not get into an Ivy but she will get in somewhere.

PP you replied to. That same counselor told us that in many years of practice, the only kid he was reasonably sure would get into an Ivy had been told by their athletic coach that if the student kept up their grades, he would make sure she got in.

The counselor also told us that academic excellence is merely a tool for universities to reject you, if you're not good enough. Once you have the grades/scores/top courses, they look at what else you've done in order to be let in.

Valedictorians, my foot. Some have been rejected from all the Ivies they applied to, PP. Stop dreaming.

[Anonymous]

I was taking a look at the # of applicants in this area at top public high schools that actually take in ivy kids and it is literally a lottery. Good Luck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Just attended a talk yesterday where a college counselor said that NO ONE was safe anymore when applying at any institution with a 20% or lower admit rate.

This is old news. If a school accepts 2 in 10 applicants (and most Top 20 schools select less than 1), no kid is a guarantee. But my hunch is that a special kid will get into some top school. I would advise the kid to take his shot ED, and then have a big backup plan. I have not heard of a valedictorian being shut out completely, for example. She may not get into an Ivy but she will get in somewhere.

PP you replied to. That same counselor told us that in many years of practice, the only kid he was reasonably sure would get into an Ivy had been told by their athletic coach that if the student kept up their grades, he would make sure she got in.

The counselor also told us that academic excellence is merely a tool for universities to reject you, if you're not good enough. Once you have the grades/scores/top courses, they look at what else you've done in order to be let in.

Valedictorians, my foot. Some have been rejected from all the Ivies they applied to, PP. Stop dreaming.

I think you misunderstood me (or apologies for not being clear). Valedictorians have been getting rejected from all Ivies for decades - that was not what I meant. What I meant to say is I would be surprised if a valedictorian was completely shut out of every school. I have not heard of a valedictorian who had zero college choices. They will go somewhere and get a great education!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

For all the kids and parents who have worked hard for the last few years, with their eyes set on getting into an Ivy, good luck today!

I hope there are no kids who have worked hard with Ivy admittance as their goal - and the parents should not be working in any way for that (their college season is long over)!