College Admissions Results for Class of 2018 - Nightmare or Pleasant Suprise?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stanford ED....rejected.

Will be a very unMerry Xmas

Are you devastated when you buy a $1 lotto ticket and don’t win $1000? I mean come on, it’s Stanford. Nobody has a real crisp shot unless they’re the incoming quarterback or a top 50 junior tennis player.

Well, the odds for a $1 lotto ticket to win is about 1/100,000 to and the odds for getting in Stanford are about 1/20. Completely different expectations.

Actually, the Stanford odds are not about 1/20. If my kid applied, his odds would be 1/100000000.

Ah, so you're saying there is a chance!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stanford ED....rejected.

Will be a very unMerry Xmas

Are you devastated when you buy a $1 lotto ticket and don’t win $1000? I mean come on, it’s Stanford. Nobody has a real crisp shot unless they’re the incoming quarterback or a top 50 junior tennis player.

Well, the odds for a $1 lotto ticket to win is about 1/100,000 to and the odds for getting in Stanford are about 1/20. Completely different expectations.

Actually, the Stanford odds are not about 1/20. If my kid applied, his odds would be 1/100000000.

I’d be interested in admissions by segment and round. I would guess that for a qualified white male from a high applicant state with no hooks applying RD the acceptance rate would be around 1%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Well, the odds for a $1 lotto ticket to win is about 1/100,000 to and the odds for getting in Stanford are about 1/20. Completely different expectations.

Actually, the Stanford odds are not about 1/20. If my kid applied, his odds would be 1/100000000.

Ah, so you're saying there is a chance!

NP, and I think the comparison holds -- if all high school seniors applied, the odds of getting in would drop, and if everyone over 18 bought a lottery ticket, the odds would drop, too.

[Anonymous]

I’d be interested in admissions by segment and round. I would guess that for a qualified white male from a high applicant state with no hooks applying RD the acceptance rate would be around 1%.

The acceptance rate for the same candidate, but female, would be lower than 1%. And Asians would be lower than 1% as well. It's actually not that bad for white males.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stanford ED....rejected.

Will be a very unMerry Xmas

Are you devastated when you buy a $1 lotto ticket and don’t win $1000? I mean come on, it’s Stanford. Nobody has a real crisp shot unless they’re the incoming quarterback or a top 50 junior tennis player.

Well, the odds for a $1 lotto ticket to win is about 1/100,000 to and the odds for getting in Stanford are about 1/20. Completely different expectations.

I’d be interested in admissions by segment and round. I would guess that for a qualified white male from a high applicant state with no hooks applying RD the acceptance rate would be around 1%.

Bingo. Odds for an unhooked white gentile are probably less than 1 in 100.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm reading this thread and wondering... which is it?

The posters are seniors in high school, or

Y'all are way too involved. I have a senior. He was accepted places you folks might distain. I do not know about any other kid's outcomes.

Not sure what your point is. If your child is not applying to super-competitive schools and is qualified for the schools on his list, of course the process will be much less dramatic. People are less likely to post in cases where the outcomes are assured. If you don't know about other kids' outcomes, presumably that's because you are incurious and/or don't have friends who like to talk about this subject. Not sure why any of that would make you want to judge others.

So your saying that if my son were applying to Harvard I would somehow develop an insane interest in all the other kids at his school who are applying to such places? Not likely.

The few parents who have pushed conversations about where my kid was applying were fishing. It was awkward and distasteful. Do you stay this involved Freshman year, too?

Where did you get the notion that people on this thread are insanely interested in where all the kids at their kid's school are going? This is an anonymous thread, and the posters on here are discussing their own child'ren's results at schools they were hoping to get into. Not sure why you find that to be a sign of over-involvement. I also doubt that all the people asking about your kid's application list were "fishing" for information. They were probably just trying to be friendly and make small talk.

Did we read the same thread?

And the fishers were fishing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stanford ED....rejected.

Will be a very unMerry Xmas

Are you devastated when you buy a $1 lotto ticket and don’t win $1000? I mean come on, it’s Stanford. Nobody has a real crisp shot unless they’re the incoming quarterback or a top 50 junior tennis player.

Well, the odds for a $1 lotto ticket to win is about 1/100,000 to and the odds for getting in Stanford are about 1/20. Completely different expectations.

1/20 is not very accurate. you haven't take into consideration lagacy,atletes,A list people, URM, and then the smartes people in the planet.... So odds are much more higher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stanford ED....rejected.

Will be a very unMerry Xmas

Are you devastated when you buy a $1 lotto ticket and don’t win $1000? I mean come on, it’s Stanford. Nobody has a real crisp shot unless they’re the incoming quarterback or a top 50 junior tennis player.

Well, the odds for a $1 lotto ticket to win is about 1/100,000 to and the odds for getting in Stanford are about 1/20. Completely different expectations.

Actually, the Stanford odds are not about 1/20. If my kid applied, his odds would be 1/100000000.

Well, I was assuming we were talking about kids who have stats in range for Stanford, not your kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stanford ED....rejected.

Will be a very unMerry Xmas

Are you devastated when you buy a $1 lotto ticket and don’t win $1000? I mean come on, it’s Stanford. Nobody has a real crisp shot unless they’re the incoming quarterback or a top 50 junior tennis player.

Well, the odds for a $1 lotto ticket to win is about 1/100,000 to and the odds for getting in Stanford are about 1/20. Completely different expectations.

1/20 is not very accurate. you haven't take into consideration lagacy,atletes,A list people, URM, and then the smartes people in the planet.... So odds are much more higher

The ED rate is 11%. Even with the list you mention, a kid with stats in range probably has a 1/20 or 30 chance of getting in ED. Slim chance, but don't act like it's completely impossible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Well, the odds for a $1 lotto ticket to win is about 1/100,000 to and the odds for getting in Stanford are about 1/20. Completely different expectations.

Actually, the Stanford odds are not about 1/20. If my kid applied, his odds would be 1/100000000.

Ah, so you're saying there is a chance!

NP, and I think the comparison holds -- if all high school seniors applied, the odds of getting in would drop, and if everyone over 18 bought a lottery ticket, the odds would drop, too.

OMG PP, please tell me you did not go to Stanford or any other top school because you are dumb. The odds of winning the lottery is dependent on the number of combination of outcomes-the numbers required to win and total possible combinations. It has nothing to do with the number of people playing like college admissions. 7th grade statistics.

[Anonymous]

Admit Auburn. Was a backup. But now looking better and better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Admit Auburn. Was a backup. But now looking better and better.

Great! Congrats!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Admit Auburn. Was a backup. But now looking better and better.

Great! Congrats!!

Auburn's acceptance rate is 81%. How could someone not get in?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Admit Auburn. Was a backup. But now looking better and better.

Great! Congrats!!

Auburn's acceptance rate is 81%. How could someone not get in?

What a needlessly mean-spirited and foolish comment to make.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Admit Auburn. Was a backup. But now looking better and better.

Great! Congrats!!

Auburn's acceptance rate is 81%. How could someone not get in?

What a needlessly mean-spirited and foolish comment to make.

well I didn't say "why would anyone want to go there anyway?"