Big 3 (or thereabouts) College Results - Class of 2021

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not about public vs private. It's geography. They're not picking the Whitman kid over GDS. They're picking the Idaho public school kid over both.

No, they’re not. More kids probably attend Ivy League schools from MoCo than from the entire state of Idaho.

[Anonymous]

Geographic diversity requires 1 kid per state- it’s not a high bar and unless you from North Dakota applying to a small slac it’s not a bump

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Geographic diversity requires 1 kid per state- it’s not a high bar and unless you from North Dakota applying to a small slac it’s not a bump

It’s not a real goal. Stanford didn’t admit a kid from every state two years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you guys really think the Ivy League schools are fighting over privileged private school kids? I'm in admissions at one and they aren't. We prefer kids from good publics who performed well in school with healthy extracurricular activities. I tell my brother and sister in law repeatedly, that paying for private in hopes it will get them into a good college is really misguided.

+1 our office tries to get 50/50 public/private

You do realize that only 10% of seniors in the US go to private (i.e. non-public) schools ? So you are actually disagreeing with the PP since your 50/50 split would mean that private school kids are grossly over-reprsented (i.e. 5x more likely to be admitted than a public school kid)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not about public vs private. It's geography. They're not picking the Whitman kid over GDS. They're picking the Idaho public school kid over both.

No, they’re not. More kids probably attend Ivy League schools from MoCo than from the entire state of Idaho.

No s##t. That's simple math. But your odds are better if you're the Idaho kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Geographic diversity requires 1 kid per state- it’s not a high bar and unless you from North Dakota applying to a small slac it’s not a bump

It’s not a real goal. Stanford didn’t admit a kid from every state two years ago.

I’m pretty certain they nearly always admit people from every state, but actual matriculation usually ends up one or two state shirt. My year it was Rhode Island, I think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I’m pretty certain they nearly always admit people from every state, but actual matriculation usually ends up one or two state shirt. My year it was Rhode Island, I think.

...states short, that is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not about public vs private. It's geography. They're not picking the Whitman kid over GDS. They're picking the Idaho public school kid over both.

No, they’re not. More kids probably attend Ivy League schools from MoCo than from the entire state of Idaho.

No s##t. That's simple math. But your odds are better if you're the Idaho kid.

You’re just making sh*t up - what are the respective odds?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Results have been abysmal from what I have heard from early admits. Very down year. Way down.

Really, is this true of full pay families ?

We are not, but I heard that for small private schools in particular applying ED as a full pay family was a ticket this year- even more so than usual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So you are calling Michigan weak academically?

I wouldn't think OP is calling Michigan weak academically.

However, on a side note we decided NOT to apply after the armed protest at the State House and the plot to kidnap the Gov. We decided the MW hasn't changed enough in the last 40 years and have zero interest in DC having a "proud boy" as a roomie

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So you are calling Michigan weak academically?

I wouldn't think OP is calling Michigan weak academically.

However, on a side note we decided NOT to apply after the armed protest at the State House and the plot to kidnap the Gov. We decided the MW hasn't changed enough in the last 40 years and have zero interest in DC having a "proud boy" as a roomie

LOL, you think a proud boy would even want to attend Michigan?

And the people involved were from upstate. Ann Arbor is a pretty liberal, chill place. Kinda like DC to parts of West Virginia.

[Anonymous]

At least 2 Dartmouth EDs today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Results have been abysmal from what I have heard from early admits. Very down year. Way down.

Really, is this true of full pay families ?

We are not, but I heard that for small private schools in particular applying ED as a full pay family was a ticket this year- even more so than usual.

20-25% down across the board is what I have heard

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Results have been abysmal from what I have heard from early admits. Very down year. Way down.

Really, is this true of full pay families ?

We are not, but I heard that for small private schools in particular applying ED as a full pay family was a ticket this year- even more so than usual.

20-25% down across the board is what I have heard

+2 Rejections everywhere at our big 3

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you guys really think the Ivy League schools are fighting over privileged private school kids? I'm in admissions at one and they aren't. We prefer kids from good publics who performed well in school with healthy extracurricular activities. I tell my brother and sister in law repeatedly, that paying for private in hopes it will get them into a good college is really misguided.

+1 our office tries to get 50/50 public/private

You do realize that only 10% of seniors in the US go to private (i.e. non-public) schools ? So you are actually disagreeing with the PP since your 50/50 split would mean that private school kids are grossly over-reprsented (i.e. 5x more likely to be admitted than a public school kid)

But far more private school seniors apply to college than public school seniors nationally.