What are your safeties / targets if you have Ivy level stats?

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Anonymous wrote:Those Stats are really good - I would think Chicago, NorthEastern and Cornell would be likely but not necessarily safeties....also UVA

Nope. My kid with these stats, ECs, also Calc BC in 10th etc was waitlisted at NEU (EA) and Cornell (RD). Also as Case. So none of those are likely. CS major though, which made things tougher.

From your criteria some possibilities: GWU, Drexel, Fordham? Would help to know major.

Can your kid write? Seriously, writing skills are one of the most important parts of the application and why we rushed our DC into creative writing even though they are a “STEM” student.

These AOs are unimpressed by a ton of applicants and rarely see a good essay. It’s hard to choose applicants when 90+% qualify for admission

Yes. Got a 5 on AP language. Also A in college writing class. There is always a response like this whenever I post my kids experience. This is not an uncommon result FYI.

A 5 on Ap Language is very easy. It just requires knowing the rubric and writing as much as possible. It is the most gamed AP course.

College writing class has no actual control for quality. For all intents and purposes, there is little reason to believe that your kid can write well at all.

NP. You seem very invested on proving this student could not possibly be a good writer. Why is that?

Because it makes parents feel better to assume there is something wrong with any kid with these kind of admission results. And of course wont happen to their kid.

This is unfortunately the admissions landscape today that high stats students can get locked out of ivys AND yield protected from next tier down. Thank goodness for state schools that are both affordable and not playing games.

NP. Agreed. And, the initial PP suggested Cornell as likely? What kind of fool is that? And, NEU, which is a decent school but has all sorts of admission shenanigans making admit rates low, and Case which also yield protects. None of those are likelies. Targets and reaches. The poster of the kid (10th grade Calc kid) is accurate by suggesting GW, Fordham and Drexel as likelies. Her kid sounds like an excellent candidate, but that first set of schools does not have any likelies. I guess it's just easier for people to diminish her kid and question her rather than face the truth about admissions.