Was your competitive kid get shut out from all top 40 schools?

[Anonymous]

I'm curious, based on another post that brought up the point that the posts on this board seemed to make a complete shift from "my high stats kid is getting shut out" to
"Should my kid attend Penn or Vanderbilt?" (or Tulane or Case? or...).

With all admits in, did your strong stats kid get shut out of all top 40 or top 50 colleges and universities?
I'm wondering what actually happened in the end.
I'm the parent of a junior.

[Anonymous]

Top colleges do not admit based on “stats.” Top “stats” are necessary but FAR FROM SUFFICIENT to get into a T40.

[Anonymous]

Not mine but she has a couple of friends that did. All kids that were taking post MVC math, post AP science. One started a charity for SN kids in the sport she participates in. Another, was a TA for the neuroscience class this year, and had done research for 3 summers. All high test scores and GPAs. And they are coming from one of the top private schools in the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not mine but she has a couple of friends that did. All kids that were taking post MVC math, post AP science. One started a charity for SN kids in the sport she participates in. Another, was a TA for the neuroscience class this year, and had done research for 3 summers. All high test scores and GPAs. And they are coming from one of the top private schools in the US.

That is seen as a privilege in admissions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not mine but she has a couple of friends that did. All kids that were taking post MVC math, post AP science. One started a charity for SN kids in the sport she participates in. Another, was a TA for the neuroscience class this year, and had done research for 3 summers. All high test scores and GPAs. And they are coming from one of the top private schools in the US.

That is seen as a privilege in admissions.

Not sure that tracks. My child attends one of the top private schools in the country and more than half the senior class is attending top 40 schools and more than 20% are going to Ivies. There certainly weren’t any shutouts of students of the caliber mentioned here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not mine but she has a couple of friends that did. All kids that were taking post MVC math, post AP science. One started a charity for SN kids in the sport she participates in. Another, was a TA for the neuroscience class this year, and had done research for 3 summers. All high test scores and GPAs. And they are coming from one of the top private schools in the US.

That is seen as a privilege in admissions.

Not sure that tracks. My child attends one of the top private schools in the country and more than half the senior class is attending top 40 schools and more than 20% are going to Ivies. There certainly weren’t any shutouts of students of the caliber mentioned here.

Is this school in the DMV? If not, not relevant.

[Anonymous]

Even if you are going to the top private school and have top Academics and ECs, you will not go to the Ivies unless your parents are very connected AND you have some hook.

[Anonymous]

Are you the poster from the other thread who claimed everyone is deciding between Brown and Princeton or Stanford and MIT?

My kid got into a target (T60 school) and was shut out from reaches (T20s). His school is actually #8 for his major, but he initially wanted something even better.

It's fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not mine but she has a couple of friends that did. All kids that were taking post MVC math, post AP science. One started a charity for SN kids in the sport she participates in. Another, was a TA for the neuroscience class this year, and had done research for 3 summers. All high test scores and GPAs. And they are coming from one of the top private schools in the US.

That is seen as a privilege in admissions.

Not sure that tracks. My child attends one of the top private schools in the country and more than half the senior class is attending top 40 schools and more than 20% are going to Ivies. There certainly weren’t any shutouts of students of the caliber mentioned here.

Really all of that is seen as having significant privilege. The neuroscience research, the charity, the private school—all require money, parental involvement, connections

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not mine but she has a couple of friends that did. All kids that were taking post MVC math, post AP science. One started a charity for SN kids in the sport she participates in. Another, was a TA for the neuroscience class this year, and had done research for 3 summers. All high test scores and GPAs. And they are coming from one of the top private schools in the US.

That is seen as a privilege in admissions.

Not sure that tracks. My child attends one of the top private schools in the country and more than half the senior class is attending top 40 schools and more than 20% are going to Ivies. There certainly weren’t any shutouts of students of the caliber mentioned here.

Yeah and if you saw the Dalton thread, there are parents from the class who’ve donated buildings, are on Forbes lists, are on board of trustees at HYPSM schools etc. Money always wins, and there isn’t a ton around here.

[Anonymous]

As recently as last year, our school sent a little more than ten percent of class to Ivies/Stanford/MIT. This year was half that. Lots of students with great everything shut out of Top 30, including a student with a perfect 800 on math SAT. My own child with great gpa and rigor, standard good ecs, 1500 SAT only got into one T30 and she had a hook there.

[Anonymous]

OP here.

Could we stick with original question please?

Was your strong applicant shut out?

(I know all the rest about high grades/scores not being enough, legacy and money talking, private school being viewed as a privilege etc, etc, etc). That has ALL been hashed to death).

Was your kid shut out?

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you the poster from the other thread who claimed everyone is deciding between Brown and Princeton or Stanford and MIT?

My kid got into a target (T60 school) and was shut out from reaches (T20s). His school is actually #8 for his major, but he initially wanted something even better.

It's fine.

Im the poster who brought it up on the other thread and I am not the OP of this post. Just FYI. So apparently I'm not the only one who noticed this trend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

Could we stick with original question please?

Was your strong applicant shut out?

(I know all the rest about high grades/scores not being enough, legacy and money talking, private school being viewed as a privilege etc, etc, etc). That has ALL been hashed to death).

Was your kid shut out?

Thank you.

Try to reframe your language. It’s not healthy. Why are you using the term “shut out”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not mine but she has a couple of friends that did. All kids that were taking post MVC math, post AP science. One started a charity for SN kids in the sport she participates in. Another, was a TA for the neuroscience class this year, and had done research for 3 summers. All high test scores and GPAs. And they are coming from one of the top private schools in the US.

That is seen as a privilege in admissions.

Not sure that tracks. My child attends one of the top private schools in the country and more than half the senior class is attending top 40 schools and more than 20% are going to Ivies. There certainly weren’t any shutouts of students of the caliber mentioned here.

Really all of that is seen as having significant privilege. The neuroscience research, the charity, the private school—all require money, parental involvement, connections

This is school that costs less than $30K. The kid was a TA for the neuroscience class at the school.