Is it true the Big 3 kids are getting hammered this year- and by that I mean bad admissions results?

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Anonymous wrote:From what I've observed as a parent at one of the 3 mentioned in this thread, it looks like it was more unpredictable but everyone is going to end up doing ok. Meaning, a kid who wanted Yale might end up at Williams. Or a kid who wanted Harvard ends up at Northwestern. Or a kid who wanted Duke or Stanford or Princeton ends up at Cornell or UChicago or Middlebury. Or a kid who wanted Cornell goes to Washington University, or a kid who wanted Tufts goes to Northeastern. Or a kid who wanted Amherst goes to Bowdoin or Wesleyan. The results are perhaps not as good as expected, and kids might be initially disappointed, but it's not like they're getting shut out. And the waitlist situation is absurd. If those start to move, kids might still end up where they had hoped initially to go. That's my 2 cents.

+1 This is accurate for our Big 3. Also, it seems that several kids who were (unexpectedly) deferred from ED/EA were admitted RD.

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Anonymous wrote:These universities have been around for a long time and have seen many students from the nations public and private high schools come and go. They are familiar with many of these high schools and are able to interpret the different transcripts.

So, they have experience with interpreting transcripts from a pandemic year in which some kids were in class full time and some were learning (and being tested) via zoom? Do tell.

No but they do have all of freshman and sophomore year and half of junior year before the virus struck so that is not nothing. And I have not seen anything to indicate that for the most part, the class of 2025 is radically different from the class of 2024, or 2023.

Don’t engage with that troll. S/he thinks the public kids all cheated and should just be sent to large stage flagships or lower ranked schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or do a whole lot of these posts read as "I paid a ton of money for my privileged kid to go to private high school with the expectation that they'd get into a fancy-ass college and I am big mad that they are being lapped by a bunch of public school kids I do not know who I assume are undeserving and not as worthy as my precious darling."

YIKES.

I feel that this is true, and SOME of these parents on DCUM do not even try to hide their disdain for public school kids and talk about them like they are totally unmotivated, undeserving morons.

And then, there are other Big 3 parents who are completely kind and normal and seem to get that you can be gifted and deserving from a public high school.

Product of public school, parent of a kid in private school here. I see very little disdain for public school kids vs the incredible vitriol that public school parents like to heap upon private school kids. You never see private school parents posting in the public school forums to sneer, but you see public school parents coming to the private school forums all the time to explicitly detail all the ways in which they think that private school kids are inferior. It's weird.

It was a no-brainer that this thread was going to end up populated by gleeful public school parents who are rubbing their hands together, delighted by any perceived disadvantage for private school kids. It's not a good look.

+1.

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Anonymous wrote:From what I've observed as a parent at one of the 3 mentioned in this thread, it looks like it was more unpredictable but everyone is going to end up doing ok. Meaning, a kid who wanted Yale might end up at Williams. Or a kid who wanted Harvard ends up at Northwestern. Or a kid who wanted Duke or Stanford or Princeton ends up at Cornell or UChicago or Middlebury. Or a kid who wanted Cornell goes to Washington University, or a kid who wanted Tufts goes to Northeastern. Or a kid who wanted Amherst goes to Bowdoin or Wesleyan. The results are perhaps not as good as expected, and kids might be initially disappointed, but it's not like they're getting shut out. And the waitlist situation is absurd. If those start to move, kids might still end up where they had hoped initially to go. That's my 2 cents.

This is helpful. Thanks for posting.

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My high stats public school kid did not get into any of the elite schools that he applied to. He got into all of the public universities that he applied to, including a couple of highly ranked public schools. He felt a little squashed by the process, but he ended up where I thought he would end up. It was a rough process, but it was okay.

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Yeah, weirdly enough, my kid got all the schools applied to from 20 through 26. All “no” from Ivies and one 10-20. It’s all turning out fine, just wish I hadn’t dropped the dough on the others but there’s no crystal ball! Oh, and Naviance is unreliable.

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Here's the best piece of advice I can give to any Big 3 family. Unless your kid is at the tippy top of the class to include perfect or near perfect SAT/ACTs, if pre-pandemic your kid's reach was in the Top 10, slide it back another 10 and take it from there. If Top 20, slide to Top 30. And so on.

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Haven't gone through the entire thread, but this is an article Washington Post from 2018.

"Before dropping AP, the schools surveyed nearly 150 colleges and universities about the potential impact. They said admission officers assured them the change would not hurt the chances of their students."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/06/18/several-well-known-private-schools-in-the-d-c-area-are-scrapping-advanced-placement-classes/

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The premise here is just wrong. This was as good a year if not better than normal. I suspect some of that has to do with a lack of FA applicants but perhaps not, as more kids submit scores than not.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or do a whole lot of these posts read as "I paid a ton of money for my privileged kid to go to private high school with the expectation that they'd get into a fancy-ass college and I am big mad that they are being lapped by a bunch of public school kids I do not know who I assume are undeserving and not as worthy as my precious darling."

YIKES.

I feel that this is true, and SOME of these parents on DCUM do not even try to hide their disdain for public school kids and talk about them like they are totally unmotivated, undeserving morons.

And then, there are other Big 3 parents who are completely kind and normal and seem to get that you can be gifted and deserving from a public high school.

Product of public school, parent of a kid in private school here. I see very little disdain for public school kids vs the incredible vitriol that public school parents like to heap upon private school kids. You never see private school parents posting in the public school forums to sneer, but you see public school parents coming to the private school forums all the time to explicitly detail all the ways in which they think that private school kids are inferior. It's weird.

It was a no-brainer that this thread was going to end up populated by gleeful public school parents who are rubbing their hands together, delighted by any perceived disadvantage for private school kids. It's not a good look.

Very true. And very odd. I’ve never understood why some public school moms like nothing better than to trash talk about private schools. And to stir the pot further by trolling with posts pretending to be private school moms.

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Poor baby big 3 douchenozzles got sad.

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Anonymous wrote:Poor baby big 3 douchenozzles got sad.

Thank you for your valuable contribution, public school mom! Good to see you again!

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Anonymous wrote:These universities have been around for a long time and have seen many students from the nations public and private high schools come and go. They are familiar with many of these high schools and are able to interpret the different transcripts.

So, they have experience with interpreting transcripts from a pandemic year in which some kids were in class full time and some were learning (and being tested) via zoom? Do tell.

No but they do have all of freshman and sophomore year and half of junior year before the virus struck so that is not nothing. And I have not seen anything to indicate that for the most part, the class of 2025 is radically different from the class of 2024, or 2023.

What are you basing this on? We do not have complete data right now, and won’t, until the wait lists clear, but the anecdotal evidence is to the contrary. Do you really think test optional doesn’t change anything?

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Princeton has said they had 300 fewer spots due to deferrals, and that most of those who deferred were white. To rebalance the class, 70% of admitted students were people of color. So depending on the applicant's demographic, it was a much harder year. And fewer spots overall. And many, many more applicants because of test optional. Schools like Brown and Columbia admitted something like 3.5 percent regular decision. Just insane!

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Anonymous wrote:Poor baby big 3 douchenozzles got sad. [/quote


Sad in Palo Alto so will be ok.