What do I need to know about College Placement from Private School

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you mean by use early decision wisely? I am thinking Cornell because one of the easier ivies.

Not the PP, but there are a lot of people who think because early decision admission rates are higher, they should just apply ED to their "dream" school without a realistic assessment of their chances. Just because Cornell is "one of the easier Ivies" doesn't mean that applying ED there is the best decision. It may be more "strategic" to apply ED where the student has a higher chance of admission and avoid getting caught up in a match school's yield management.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do you mean by use early decision wisely? I am thinking Cornell because one of the easier ivies.

Not the PP, but there are a lot of people who think because early decision admission rates are higher, they should just apply ED to their "dream" school without a realistic assessment of their chances. Just because Cornell is "one of the easier Ivies" doesn't mean that applying ED there is the best decision. It may be more "strategic" to apply ED where the student has a higher chance of admission and avoid getting caught up in a match school's yield management.

Strategic doesn't matter when the student doesn't want to go there. Make sure you're applying ED to a school you're happy being bound to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And the best OOS publics place more weight on GPA than test scores.

Interesting. Which ones?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The most important thing to know coming from a top private is that the competition from her grade may be very strong alongside increasing world wide competition for top schools. It's seldom going to be "fair" and a school may appear to take one type of kid one year in favor of another then flip it for the next year. Timing can be everything. Some of these schools only take about 10% of the available slots based on pure academic profile. And you're never going to really know the landscape in terms of hooks. Do not let your kid fall in love and use the early application process as wisely as you can. Finally, these kids tend to end up very happy and doing well wherever they land, sometimes even more so when it's somewhere not on the original plan. Enjoy the next 4 years. It's going to go really fast.

What do you mean by use early decision wisely? I am thinking Cornell because one of the easier ivies.

"Easier" doesn't mean easy.

[Anonymous]

9:21 Michigan and UVA

[Anonymous]

My DS had a 3.0 GPA from a Big 3, 35 ACT, 4s and 5s on his APs, and 750+ on several subject tests. We did not bother with the Ivies, etc, but he was accepted seven "top 30" schools.