GDS - Wow!

[Anonymous]

As an actual GDS senior class parent I don't think we are doing "amazing." I know MANY high stats kids who were deferred or rejected from Ivy League and other top schools and I agree the successes had nothing to do with the college counseling office. It was the kids who were all special or outstanding in some way so kudos to them.
Yes this was a good showing at Harvard but the rest are Meh. And it's early days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As an actual GDS senior class parent I don't think we are doing "amazing." I know MANY high stats kids who were deferred or rejected from Ivy League and other top schools and I agree the successes had nothing to do with the college counseling office. It was the kids who were all special or outstanding in some way so kudos to them.
Yes this was a good showing at Harvard but the rest are Meh. And it's early days.

You do realize that at many public high schools they have 30+ kids apply each year to T10 schools and maybe once every 7 years have ONE get accepted.

So, maybe get a reality check. GDS results are beyond stellar and the sense of entitlement when you don’t have 50 get admitted to Harvard is 🤯

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As an actual GDS senior class parent I don't think we are doing "amazing." I know MANY high stats kids who were deferred or rejected from Ivy League and other top schools and I agree the successes had nothing to do with the college counseling office. It was the kids who were all special or outstanding in some way so kudos to them.
Yes this was a good showing at Harvard but the rest are Meh. And it's early days.

Legacies. You omitted legacies.

[Anonymous]

Limiting the applications to 12 is helpful, too. Requires kids to think hard about where they want to go to college and not just take a scattershot approach.

[Anonymous]

PP Here. I am not entitled to anything. I simply don't think 3 Harvard admits out of 140 kids means the whole class is doing stellar. There are plenty of disappointments. And sorry, but for GDS, this result is not really that different than most other years.

It's so interesting to be in this position as a parent bc there are so many GDS haters on DCUM, and I usually feel the need to try to be positive, but this boosterism is weird to me. GDS is an elite private. It's not uncommon to have 20% of the class go to top 25 schools. So all I am saying is the jury is still out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, my white male son at ACHS got into Yale. And we didn't pay 250,000 for HS.

REA? Like, yesterday? Clapping. And good luck to him.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well, my white male son at ACHS got into Yale. And we didn't pay 250,000 for HS.

REA? Like, yesterday? Clapping. And good luck to him.

PP You keep posting this about your ACHS (don't even know what that is) kid. Good for your son, good for you for not paying for private if you did not want to-but who cares? Why the need to jump into every thread?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Private school must be like a different world -- kids commit and don't have to fill out FAFSA first. That's so far from my reality and everyone else I know.

Finally. Someone smart enough to understand what ED is actually for.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As an actual GDS senior class parent I don't think we are doing "amazing." I know MANY high stats kids who were deferred or rejected from Ivy League and other top schools and I agree the successes had nothing to do with the college counseling office. It was the kids who were all special or outstanding in some way so kudos to them.
Yes this was a good showing at Harvard but the rest are Meh. And it's early days.

Legacies. You omitted legacies.

Different school but what happens at our school is that the legacies anccepted are very accomplished and would have gotten in 15 years ago without legacy. But now they would have no chance if they weren’t legacy. It’s now the “hook” but they’re just as accomplished as the average kid accepted. For example, a legacy ED Penn accepted applicant would get rejected if they applied non-legacy ED too Duke, but would probably get accepted non-legacy ED to UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:As an actual GDS senior class parent I don't think we are doing "amazing." I know MANY high stats kids who were deferred or rejected from Ivy League and other top schools and I agree the successes had nothing to do with the college counseling office. It was the kids who were all special or outstanding in some way so kudos to them.
Yes this was a good showing at Harvard but the rest are Meh. And it's early days.

Legacies. You omitted legacies.

Different school but what happens at our school is that the legacies anccepted are very accomplished and would have gotten in 15 years ago without legacy. But now they would have no chance if they weren’t legacy. It’s now the “hook” but they’re just as accomplished as the average kid accepted. For example, a legacy ED Penn accepted applicant would get rejected if they applied non-legacy ED to Duke, but would probably get accepted non-legacy ED to UVA.

This rings tru.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As an actual GDS senior class parent I don't think we are doing "amazing." I know MANY high stats kids who were deferred or rejected from Ivy League and other top schools and I agree the successes had nothing to do with the college counseling office. It was the kids who were all special or outstanding in some way so kudos to them.
Yes this was a good showing at Harvard but the rest are Meh. And it's early days.

Legacies. You omitted legacies.

Different school but what happens at our school is that the legacies anccepted are very accomplished and would have gotten in 15 years ago without legacy. But now they would have no chance if they weren’t legacy. It’s now the “hook” but they’re just as accomplished as the average kid accepted. For example, a legacy ED Penn accepted applicant would get rejected if they applied non-legacy ED to Duke, but would probably get accepted non-legacy ED to UVA.

This rings tru.

Yep. Same at our "Big3" school. The legacies that get in to the Ivies are great students--3.9 level.. but without the legacy they wouldn't get in (and their non-legacy peers don't). Then there are a TON of legacies with lower grades who don't get in either.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is there an Insta thread like that for Walls?

Yes, but it hasn't been updated yet with yesterday's decision results. Looks like many schools haven't done so.

The schools don't run these site, the kids do.

And some schools' populations are more discrete.

I’ll take the discreet kids anyday.

Agree. Kids at my son’s school doesn’t do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Best Ivy application strategy this year an date next will be to have your mailing address in Gaza. Mark my words.

As it should be, you racist you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Private school must be like a different world -- kids commit and don't have to fill out FAFSA first. That's so far from my reality and everyone else I know.

Finally. Someone smart enough to understand what ED is actually for.

Yup. I know two admits - both 80k Boston schools. Money is not a factor. There is no world in which we can pay that much!!

[Anonymous]

Notably better than last year’s senior class ED results for GDS. The CCO did not change. I’m guessing quality of this year’s batch is just higher. I can’t say kids are more hooked this year either.