Where did you average private school kid end up?

[Anonymous]

I’m there are tons of great options for your kid, especially since you’re being realistic. The problem is when parents and students zero in on a few very selective or popular colleges and then complain about being shut out. I wouldn’t listen to the negative comments on this thread about certain colleges. It’s about where your kid will thrive and be happy.

[Anonymous]

Our NYC private sends weaker students to Hamilton, Rochester, Skidmore, Conn College, Bates, Colby, Tulane, Tufts, Haverford. (Sometimes, stronger students also choose the last three on that list.)

[Anonymous]

I think much of this advice in this post is 2-3 years out of date. This year Tulane, Tufts, BC are all requiring kids to be around the 75% at my kid's Big3. It's been a hard year. Gone are the days that Tulane would take the 3.3 and BC/Tufts would take the 3.5.
Final decisions are not in but this is what my kid's friends are reporting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our NYC private sends weaker students to Hamilton, Rochester, Skidmore, Conn College, Bates, Colby, Tulane, Tufts, Haverford. (Sometimes, stronger students also choose the last three on that list.)

Exactly. At a good private BC is an option for median students, sometimes lower.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our NYC private sends weaker students to Hamilton, Rochester, Skidmore, Conn College, Bates, Colby, Tulane, Tufts, Haverford. (Sometimes, stronger students also choose the last three on that list.)

NYC Tier 3 private here. The weaker ones applied ED. Looking at instagram right now, Tufts, Colgate, Northeastern, Hamilton, BU, Rochester, GW, Tulane.
We don't send many to Haverford, and I wouldn't call it weaker.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the attraction of Wake and BC? Don’t see them as overlaps with Wake being more non-Catholic and BC the reverse.

They are schools decent but not outstanding students can get into that sound respectable enough to most people.

To be clear, they sound respectable to other private school parents who continue (erroneously) to judge colleges on a public/private breakdown like they judge K-12.

A normal person who went to public K-12 will hold BC and Wake in decent regard and know them from sports. They’ll think they are better than U Mass and NC State (roughly par with UNC). Aside from 3 or 4 state flagships public universities are bad.

Yeah normal people who go to public K-12 don’t think things like this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m there are tons of great options for your kid, especially since you’re being realistic. The problem is when parents and students zero in on a few very selective or popular colleges and then complain about being shut out. I wouldn’t listen to the negative comments on this thread about certain colleges. It’s about where your kid will thrive and be happy.

Agree with this. Key is being open to schools that may not have the same cache with other families, which is fine.

[Anonymous]

So-called “average” students may feel freer to apply to more interesting schools that “high stats” students who limit themselves to T-25 and the state flagship, won’t even consider. There isn’t that unfortunate “expectation” of T-25 of bust hanging over them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our NYC private sends weaker students to Hamilton, Rochester, Skidmore, Conn College, Bates, Colby, Tulane, Tufts, Haverford. (Sometimes, stronger students also choose the last three on that list.)

Exactly. At a good private BC is an option for median students, sometimes lower.

Pre-covid, maybe.

[Anonymous]

Is Wake and SMU cheaper than BC?

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Anonymous wrote:Our NYC private sends weaker students to Hamilton, Rochester, Skidmore, Conn College, Bates, Colby, Tulane, Tufts, Haverford. (Sometimes, stronger students also choose the last three on that list.)

Exactly. At a good private BC is an option for median students, sometimes lower.

Pre-covid, maybe.

Still is champ. Keep at median at a good school and you’ll waltz into BC.

[Anonymous]

They have too be feeling pressure from good state flagships.

[Anonymous]

This thread is bad even for the den of vipers that is the scum’s college board.

To answer OP’s question: ime most commonly oos flagships, schools like Franklin and Marshall and Lafayette, Syracuse

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BC, Rochester, Tufts for our school.

Tufts? DD waitlisted with all A’s, IB Diploma:

[Anonymous]

Elon and Towson