Acceptance to more selective schools based on merit at T40-T50 schools

[Anonymous]

Got merit at a couple of T40-T50 schools, DC is trying to figure out how much that usually carries over to more selective schools. For people who’ve been through this, does getting merit in that range usually mean you’ve got a real shot higher up (T15-T30?) too, or is it not that predictive? Just curious what others have seen from actual results. Didn't apply to USC EA.

[Anonymous]

Hope so. My son got merit from couple of top 30-40. Hope that translates into top 10-20 without merit! 😉

[Anonymous]

List the school with merit & major.

Both matter for purposes of predicting.

[Anonymous]

Many publics and privates offer 25k for desired students. Does not gurantee t10 at all. Same schools offer higher merit for t10 caliber.

[Anonymous]

T25 possible esp oos publics.

[Anonymous]

Couple years ago:
Rejections: Harvard, Penn
WL: UVA, NE
Accepted w/merit: UMD ($10K/yr), Ohio St. ($16.5k), Boston U ($25k), UMN ($25K), Lehigh (~$30k/50% tuition), CWRU ($35K)
Accepted no merit: WM (Monroe Scholar), Pitt

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Couple years ago:
Rejections: Harvard, Penn
WL: UVA, NE
Accepted w/merit: UMD ($10K/yr), Ohio St. ($16.5k), Boston U ($25k), UMN ($25K), Lehigh (~$30k/50% tuition), CWRU ($35K)
Accepted no merit: WM (Monroe Scholar), Pitt

Didn’t apply to any T10-T25?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Couple years ago:
Rejections: Harvard, Penn
WL: UVA, NE
Accepted w/merit: UMD ($10K/yr), Ohio St. ($16.5k), Boston U ($25k), UMN ($25K), Lehigh (~$30k/50% tuition), CWRU ($35K)
Accepted no merit: WM (Monroe Scholar), Pitt

Didn’t apply to any T10-T25?

PP, other than rolling the dice on Ivies, chasing merit. Cant afford $90k/yr.

[Anonymous]

Merit (generous): Case; Elon; Pitt; Boulder; Vermont

Admitted in EA/RD: UVA (OOS); Michigan (OOS); Vanderbilt; Cornell; Northwestern; Rice (and a few others lower ranked)

Rejected: Stanford; Dartmouth; Yale; Duke

Applied to 20 schools

[Anonymous]

T40-T50 are safeties. Generally not predictive for highly selective schools (sub 15%).

Merit at these schools is means to attract students they think who are likely to attend, not a great correlation with acceptance to reach schools. The underlying logic for reach is different from that of merit at safeties.

Reasonable to assume at least one target (15-20%).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:T40-T50 are safeties. Generally not predictive for highly selective schools (sub 15%).

Merit at these schools is means to attract students they think who are likely to attend, not a great correlation with acceptance to reach schools. The underlying logic for reach is different from that of merit at safeties.

Reasonable to assume at least one target (15-20%).

Such as…?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Merit (generous): Case; Elon; Pitt; Boulder; Vermont

Admitted in EA/RD: UVA (OOS); Michigan (OOS); Vanderbilt; Cornell; Northwestern; Rice (and a few others lower ranked)

Rejected: Stanford; Dartmouth; Yale; Duke

Applied to 20 schools

Where did your kid end up attending?

[Anonymous]

For those who ended up getting into at least one top 20 (non-binding), what merit did you get out of top 30?

[Anonymous]

I think better off indication is from EA out of state public’s. GT, UT Austin, uiuc, Michigan, etc which all have sub 10% acceptance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think better off indication is from EA out of state public’s. GT, UT Austin, uiuc, Michigan, etc which all have sub 10% acceptance.

I think her question was: Does getting merit from top 40-50 predict acceptance to the bunch of schools you just just listed?