If your dc gets into Princeton SCEA, would they apply to others during RD?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our school also had a kid like this. They got in early and then ran the Ivy tables in RD and no one else got an Ivy spot in RD. (not an exaggeration--others on here will know who I'm talking about).

They got the right to do so and it’s often legitimate to do so. Stop blaming others if you’re not good enough for Ivys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school also had a kid like this. They got in early and then ran the Ivy tables in RD and no one else got an Ivy spot in RD. (not an exaggeration--others on here will know who I'm talking about).

They got the right to do so and it’s often legitimate to do so. Stop blaming others if you’re not good enough for Ivys.

It is a dick move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school also had a kid like this. They got in early and then ran the Ivy tables in RD and no one else got an Ivy spot in RD. (not an exaggeration--others on here will know who I'm talking about).

They got the right to do so and it’s often legitimate to do so. Stop blaming others if you’re not good enough for Ivys.

It is a dick move.

Says a loser?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school also had a kid like this. They got in early and then ran the Ivy tables in RD and no one else got an Ivy spot in RD. (not an exaggeration--others on here will know who I'm talking about).

They got the right to do so and it’s often legitimate to do so. Stop blaming others if you’re not good enough for Ivys.

It is a dick move.

why do you expect other people to be nice and sacrifice their choices when the entire society is built on BS and is so toxic?

[Anonymous]

whatever. Good luck to any of you who have kids who don't have perfect grades and resumes but Ivy ambitions. My kid isn't applying to any Ivies so this really doesn't impact me.

The kids who ran the Ivy tables in RD was the valedictorian at a top private school. He/she matriculated to the original SCEA school. He/she had a 4.0. All the 3.95/1580s and below got shut out. I guess they should have worked harder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:whatever. Good luck to any of you who have kids who don't have perfect grades and resumes but Ivy ambitions. My kid isn't applying to any Ivies so this really doesn't impact me.

The kids who ran the Ivy tables in RD was the valedictorian at a top private school. He/she matriculated to the original SCEA school. He/she had a 4.0. All the 3.95/1580s and below got shut out. I guess they should have worked harder.

That’s not how it works. I don’t think you understand top college admissions. You just feel like you needed to blame someone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:whatever. Good luck to any of you who have kids who don't have perfect grades and resumes but Ivy ambitions. My kid isn't applying to any Ivies so this really doesn't impact me.

The kids who ran the Ivy tables in RD was the valedictorian at a top private school. He/she matriculated to the original SCEA school. He/she had a 4.0. All the 3.95/1580s and below got shut out. I guess they should have worked harder.

That’s not how it works. I don’t think you understand top college admissions. You just feel like you needed to blame someone.

no, i didn't have a kid in the class. It definitely happened and it happens in private schools when you actually have a GPA spread. It's far less likely to happen in public schools where you may have 50 kids tied with the top GPA.

[Anonymous]

Well now we all want to know where this is happening/ happened

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:whatever. Good luck to any of you who have kids who don't have perfect grades and resumes but Ivy ambitions. My kid isn't applying to any Ivies so this really doesn't impact me.

The kids who ran the Ivy tables in RD was the valedictorian at a top private school. He/she matriculated to the original SCEA school. He/she had a 4.0. All the 3.95/1580s and below got shut out. I guess they should have worked harder.

That’s not how it works. I don’t think you understand top college admissions. You just feel like you needed to blame someone.

no, i didn't have a kid in the class. It definitely happened and it happens in private schools when you actually have a GPA spread. It's far less likely to happen in public schools where you may have 50 kids tied with the top GPA.

GPA/score is only one of the many factors to consider for top schools. You made it sound like college admissions are ranked by those only, which is really laughable and shows your ignorance.

[Anonymous]

It is totally a dick move to to get the early acceptance to Princeton and then go trophy hunting. They really do ruin things for their classmates. Awful families.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's a complete a$$ move.

Why??? It’s SCEA not ED.

It kind of is. Princeton is not taking a plethora of students from any high school. Not taking an early acceptance is very much taking away a shot from a classmate. Getting into Princeton SCEA and then raking up acceptances from other T20 schools is very much a dick move.

Absolutely false. Even Princeton's own admission rules state if accepted SCEA, the applicant is free to apply RD

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is totally a dick move to to get the early acceptance to Princeton and then go trophy hunting. They really do ruin things for their classmates. Awful families.

It's not. REA/SCEA is not binding for good reasons.

[Anonymous]

My kid is doing SCEA at a different school, but she's still deciding between that school and some women's colleges, plus hoping for maybe a merit scholarship elsewhere. So she'll keep those applications in play. Will not be applying to other Ivies is SCEA works out though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is totally a dick move to to get the early acceptance to Princeton and then go trophy hunting. They really do ruin things for their classmates. Awful families.

I think applying to all the other schools is not cool. But applying to 1 other one? You were deciding btw Princeton and Harvard and did Princeton SCEA and Harvard RD? I have no issue with that.

Yale podcast says they absolutely don’t have a limit per school. They take whoever they want.

[Anonymous]

I know someone who did this, didn't get into any of the other Ivies. I don't think it matters that much for classmates. They might get waitlisted and get in later.