Where did you average private school kid end up?

[Anonymous]

If your kid was around the middle of their private, but not Big 3 class, where did they end up? My junior is getting the feedback from many people that they should reach higher, so I am curious where other similar kids have ended up.

Kid is truly in the middle of the class in most ways. Mix of honors and on level classes, highest math is AP Stats (no calculus). UW GPA and test scores around the 50th %ile for the class. Good EC's but nothing amazing.

[Anonymous]

I’m sure your “average” kid is wonderful and good luck to them. I would look at where kids from her school from last year’s class ended up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure your “average” kid is wonderful and good luck to them. I would look at where kids from her school from last year’s class ended up.

They are a wonderful kid. I'm just trying to make sense of this feedback on their list.

I can look at the list of schools, but I don't know enough to know which ones were kids like them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure your “average” kid is wonderful and good luck to them. I would look at where kids from her school from last year’s class ended up.

This is exactly right - it depends on your HS and where kids with similar profiles end up. For example, at our school, only one kid has been rejected from Tulane in the past three years, and she probably had the lowest GPA in the grade. Emory is an excellent, highly selective school, but from our HS you can get in with a relatively low GPA, esp if you ED or ED2. There are certain highly ranked schools that WL a lot of kids from our HS so that when the accepted ones do not take their spots, the college can go to the WL and just take another kid. But none of that is relevant to you or your kid, because it is very high school dependent - your school scattergrams will show the trends you should focus on.

[Anonymous]

BC, Rochester, Tufts for our school.

[Anonymous]

Wow, I wasn't expecting schools like these. Those schools are a totally different level of selectivity than the ones I've been taking my kid to see. It wouldn't have occured to me that they were options.

-- OP

[Anonymous]

I have a similar kid, though with calculus. That seems to be required for potential engineering or business major, which he thought he’d be. He ending up applying for engineering. He got waitlisted at VT but probably could have gotten in for other majors. He got into all the out of state flagships he applied to, which was the environment he preferred. If he wanted smaller or private schools, things might have been different. But he had great choices and even some scholarship offers- Tennessee, Penn state, Indiana, Delaware and South Carolina.
But think he could have done “better” but luckily this is what he wanted and had a lot of success. He’s a senior so this is current.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I wasn't expecting schools like these. Those schools are a totally different level of selectivity than the ones I've been taking my kid to see. It wouldn't have occured to me that they were options.

-- OP

I don’t know what private that person’s kids attend, but neither BC nor Tufts would be where students at even Sidwell or GDS wind up who have not taken calculus and have SAT scores below 1500.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure your “average” kid is wonderful and good luck to them. I would look at where kids from her school from last year’s class ended up.

This is exactly right - it depends on your HS and where kids with similar profiles end up. For example, at our school, only one kid has been rejected from Tulane in the past three years, and she probably had the lowest GPA in the grade. Emory is an excellent, highly selective school, but from our HS you can get in with a relatively low GPA, esp if you ED or ED2. There are certain highly ranked schools that WL a lot of kids from our HS so that when the accepted ones do not take their spots, the college can go to the WL and just take another kid. But none of that is relevant to you or your kid, because it is very high school dependent - your school scattergrams will show the trends you should focus on.

This!!
It’s dependent on your HS.

[Anonymous]

What are his actual SAT scores

[Anonymous]

When I think of these kids I think of SMU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I wasn't expecting schools like these. Those schools are a totally different level of selectivity than the ones I've been taking my kid to see. It wouldn't have occured to me that they were options.

-- OP

I don’t know what private that person’s kids attend, but neither BC nor Tufts would be where students at even Sidwell or GDS wind up who have not taken calculus and have SAT scores below 1500.

I agree that this poster is wildly optimistic. My DC has a 3.9/35 from a Big3 and was just waitlisted at BC last week. His friend with a 3.8+ was waitlisted at Tufts. ED at these schools is quite a bit easier but not at the 50%tile if there are no hooks and this is a Big3 school and these kids had calculus.

[Anonymous]

At our private, without Calculus it would be:

Tulane (ED)
Wake (ED) - non stem or business major
SMU - non business
U-Miami (ED)
Santa Clara
Lehigh (ED)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I wasn't expecting schools like these. Those schools are a totally different level of selectivity than the ones I've been taking my kid to see. It wouldn't have occured to me that they were options.

-- OP

I don’t know what private that person’s kids attend, but neither BC nor Tufts would be where students at even Sidwell or GDS wind up who have not taken calculus and have SAT scores below 1500.

I agree that this poster is wildly optimistic. My DC has a 3.9/35 from a Big3 and was just waitlisted at BC last week. His friend with a 3.8+ was waitlisted at Tufts. ED at these schools is quite a bit easier but not at the 50%tile if there are no hooks and this is a Big3 school and these kids had calculus.

Take a look at Sidwell matriculation: https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation
There are only very few schools ranked lower than Rochester. You big fat liar.

[Anonymous]

Elon
Ohio Wesleyan
Hobart and William Smith
Wooster
Rhodes