A prime example of college counseling steering
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Anonymous
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You won't find a cluster of more than 2, 3 kids for a same school. They are steered to a WIDE range of ivy league and plus and top lac schools. No rat race, everyone finds somewhere they are happy. Well done! |
Anonymous
| Isn't 2 or 3 from same high school a lot if the college's student pop is less than 10k? |
Anonymous
| Very impressive. No offense to Dickinson but it is kind of an outlier (there are some other non-Ivy type schools but mainly for athletes). |
Anonymous
| There are about 200 more kids in that grade. |
Anonymous
| The original Phillips in Massachusetts does the same. I had a friend whose son went there and they steered him to UIUC. Oh a girl from DC’s class who attended ended up at UC Davis. I believe she is a Harvard legacy. Wonder if she was even allowed to apply to Harvard if she ended up at Davis. |
Anonymous
| OP — everyone is NOT happy. Parents especially. |
Anonymous
| This is a well known feeder school. All applicants are hooked bc attending a feeder school is a hook. Do you think FCPS’ college counselors could point the top kids to a variety of schools like this and they’d get in bc it was sprinkled around? |
Anonymous
UIUC is one of the top 3-5 for CS, also v highly ranked for all Engineering so perhaps the student wanted one of those majors - if so, well done |
Anonymous
| I dated a guy who went there back in the day. He was strongly pushed to apply to the Ivy where he was a legacy (and parents gave $$$) not the Ivy he actually wanted to go to. He ended up applying early to legacy Ivy and going there. Exeter has so many kids with connections/money and as a private it has more control than a public school. It is interesting but not really relevant for most of us. |
Anonymous
why do you say that? |
Anonymous
| Lots of drugs at a school like that. |
Anonymous
RD isn’t out yet. |
Anonymous
Some kids are adamant about going to school in CA. On UC Davis family day in fall ‘25, I encountered a father of a high stats Connecticut kid who was going to UCD for this reason. Combination of location and program can lead to this result. |
Anonymous
| Are you connected to the school? Give us a little more color as to what is going on and what sort of accomplishments or hooks different kids have. |
Anonymous
| Two public schools? Coddling 2.0 |