If your high-scorer didn't get in anywhere: where are they now?

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Anonymous wrote:Barnard

I don’t think Barnard counts as “not getting in anywhere”.

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Anonymous wrote:Tufts, Occidental

These are great schools.

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Anonymous wrote:If they really were top scorers with no red flags, its very unlikely they'll end up at a safety. Well, that is if they applied to more top schools other than HYSPM. Most would get into at least one T25.

My kids with high scores did not apply to any of the schools in the "top 25."

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Anonymous wrote:Tufts, Occidental

These are great schools.

They are making the point that OP is ridiculous. There are hundreds of great schools.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tufts, Occidental

These are great schools.

They are making the point that OP is ridiculous. There are hundreds of great schools.

Oh! Ok lol.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tufts, Occidental

These are great schools.

They are making the point that OP is ridiculous. There are hundreds of great schools.

I don't think you're right.

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Anonymous wrote:Penn State

I feel a lot of kids end up at Penn state.

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Anonymous wrote:You mean "if your high-scorer didn't get in anywhere you deem acceptable: where are they now?" Because the premise is that the kid DID go to college. The horror of having to go to a target or safety.

It’s a reasonable question. College admissions are a crap shoot for a lot of kids and there are some high stats kids who don’t get into places where you think they would.

IMO, even high stats, if a school has a less than 20% acceptance rate, you should assume you will get rejected, then be surprised if you gain admission. So focus on finding the best Target and safeties for your kid. And not all targets should be 26% acceptance rates with your kid at 50%. some should be where your kid is at/above 75/80% and closer to 40% acceptance. DO that and you will get admitted.

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Anonymous wrote:If they really were top scorers with no red flags, its very unlikely they'll end up at a safety. Well, that is if they applied to more top schools other than HYSPM. Most would get into at least one T25.

Well some people think a Target is a school with a 15% acceptance rate because their kid is "high stats". So with that mentality, yes you can easily get rejected at your reaches and targets. (Hint those are not targets)

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Anonymous wrote:If they really were top scorers with no red flags, its very unlikely they'll end up at a safety. Well, that is if they applied to more top schools other than HYSPM. Most would get into at least one T25.

Not true. I know NMFs with no ECs who ended up at #150, #200, #120 schools.

Well if you have NO ECs at all (and also no job---because colleges consider jobs an EC), then yes you are not likely to get into a T100 school. Without a reasons for lack of ECs, they will think you are lazy and unmotivated, so why do they want you to attend?

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Anonymous wrote:Mine is at Wisconsin, which was a safety. He has said a couple of times that if he had known this was where he was going, he would have had a little more fun in high school and wouldn't have killed himself taking such hard classes. In the end, no one understood what happened -- other than the two rounds of ED didn't work out and then he was stuck in the seventh circle of waitlist hell until early July. He got into one or two schools that might be considered better than Wisconsin but there are more opportunities in his major in Madison. I wish the process hadn't sucked so much and I wish he had been more proud of how it turned out but at the end of the day it doesn't really matter and he is happy.

I’m so sorry.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Penn State

I feel a lot of kids end up at Penn state.

Mostly high stats boys.

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Anonymous wrote:If they really were top scorers with no red flags, its very unlikely they'll end up at a safety. Well, that is if they applied to more top schools other than HYSPM. Most would get into at least one T25.

This just isn't true. You are probably thinking as if kids apply to every school in the top 25. They don't. They take a shot at a few of them, and if that doesn't work out, they are looking at targets -- many of which fill up during ED/EA rounds with kids who don't shoot for the moon, and so some kids end up at the safety on the list of 10 or so schools they actually applied to. and geography matters. If a kid doesn't want to fly to college that eliminates a lot of school in the Top 25 from the list to start with.

Applying to 25 schools with test scores can end up costing you over $3000.

Or - this is exactly why you apply to 20-25 schools.
Bc then you may have more options.

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Anonymous wrote:If they really were top scorers with no red flags, its very unlikely they'll end up at a safety. Well, that is if they applied to more top schools other than HYSPM. Most would get into at least one T25.

Not true. I know NMFs with no ECs who ended up at #150, #200, #120 schools.

I think you can be a NMF without having the highest academic rigor at your HS. Most all NMFs are getting into top 75 schools.

I'm assuming being a NMF means you've gotten good grades.

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The world has changed - State Schools are harder to get into. Who would've thought VA Tech and UVA is not where a good percentage of a VA HS went to.

The hard to get into schools of ole days are not that hard: I was surprised to see Rensselaer is like 60% it was 20-30% just 10 - 15 years ago. Vassar is getting dragged through the mud on this forum - that used to be hard to get into.

And easier schools are now hard: Swarthmore.why? besides the dukakis bump - anything else?

Some are severely under valued.
if Bryn Mawr College has a 98% medical school acceptance rate - why is the acceptance rate to the college only 33%. I thought medical school as impossible to get into these days. If my kid said medical school - I'm thinking this school for Bachelors. https://www.brynmawr.edu/postbac/about-program/director#:~:text=Our%20graduates%27%20history%20of%20success,rate%20consistently%20exceeds%2098%20percent.

Feel like we are in a college bubble - why apply to xyz? because everyone else is and no one will respect you if you don't go there. And one day - all the single digit acceptance colleges will drop to double digits. Investment devalued. See Rensselaer.