Blacklisted Unis

[Anonymous]

I spent a LOT of time in Scoir this year and the data speaks. There are a few colleges that have zero interest in kids from our private school, which is rigorous and Highly regarded. It's just a sea of red dots across the entire scattergram graph. Blacklisting actually makes the most sense out of any explanation. It's certainly not that ALL the applicants from the past three years aren't good enough for a 'yes'. The stats are good, but there is some kind of clear prejudice against kids from our school.

[Anonymous]

If your HS somehow doesn't have any kids accepted to a highly rejective college this year when some were accepted last year, that doesn't mean there is a blacklist.

A blacklist doesn't even make sense when more than 95% of the kids who apply ED abide by the agreement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you ever notice these made-up, fantasy, click-bait posts never reveal the particular high school that is blacklisted?

Curious, eh?

Bunch of twiddlin teenage morons and their morons who follow them.

Oddly enough, I would trust a teen on this. They talk and have information that the adults don't. I don't think it's made up at all. If anything, watching a kid go through this process has further confirmed that college admissions is a bullshit, subjective, fu$$3d up, and conniving system. I'm more grateful than ever that our ED worked out.

[Anonymous]

Still not one allegedly blacklisted high school named. Peculiar, one would say. Very peculiar.

[Anonymous]

Local private blacklisted from Wake. I'm not going to be specific but a kid broke ED about 3 years ago and the school has gone about 0/25 since.

This generally only happens with certain private high schools because colleges know that the counselors are more involved with each kid and have a small caseload (vs a public school where a counselor might be sending paperwork on hundreds of kids). Plus the private school counselors generally have relationships with the regional reps--sometimes very close relationships.

[Anonymous]

It can be hard to know for sure. There are like 25,000 high schools out there. Colleges have plenty of options and will both prefer and blacklist certain high schools.

At our school, it's Duke. Five years ago, 4 or 5 acceptances were the norm. Now, absolutely no one gets in. Straight up rejections across the board. Not even deferrals - hard rejections for several years now. And it may very well be because of a former ED student who poisoned the well for everyone else. That would make sense. Duke has 24,999 other high schools to choose from. Why deal with a high school with students, parents, principles and counselors who don't play by the rules? There are a lot of other good high schools out there. I do think a rotten family or two can impact admissions for years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no way colleges are organized enough to have a blacklist like you describe.

This is a stupid statement.

These people are educated, trained professionals with real knowledge of HS and the process, and yes they are likely better at it than the people at your job.

Try this: meet a few.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no way colleges are organized enough to have a blacklist like you describe.

This is a stupid statement.

These people are educated, trained professionals with real knowledge of HS and the process, and yes they are likely better at it than the people at your job.

Try this: meet a few.

?? Admissions offices are mostly grads of decent colleges with humanities degrees who couldn’t find another job. Sure the Dean of admissions is highly trained and usually has a masters or PhD in higher Ed and has to be a leader in understanding admissions practices, but your everyday AO really isn’t that knowledgeable. You should read books from AOs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Local private blacklisted from Wake. I'm not going to be specific but a kid broke ED about 3 years ago and the school has gone about 0/25 since.

This generally only happens with certain private high schools because colleges know that the counselors are more involved with each kid and have a small caseload (vs a public school where a counselor might be sending paperwork on hundreds of kids). Plus the private school counselors generally have relationships with the regional reps--sometimes very close relationships.

You don’t say. A couple years back the then-head of college admissions at a local private quit. I just looked it up, and it turns out the day they quit was the next business day after Wake released its RD decisions. Prior to that date, unofficial IG accounts showed regular Wake matriculations, and DCUM called Wake a safety for the bottom half of the class. But there are no matriculations to Wake on this school’s unofficial IG accounts since the day that head of admissions quit. Could be a coincidence, of course. Maybe Wake is out of fashion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I wish there could be a ranked matching system like medical school. So schools knew each application means something to the kid and it would bring some sanity to the out of control application numbers which wreck havoc with yield protection.

The matching system you refer to is for residency training, in which the residents will be PAID. Such a system cannot work in college admissions in which there are non-need based scholarship opportunities on the table. Plus, it doesn’t limit application numbers (see orthopedic surgery, dermatology, ophthalmology, etc, in which students apply to dozens of programs to optimize their chance at a match).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Local private blacklisted from Wake. I'm not going to be specific but a kid broke ED about 3 years ago and the school has gone about 0/25 since.

This generally only happens with certain private high schools because colleges know that the counselors are more involved with each kid and have a small caseload (vs a public school where a counselor might be sending paperwork on hundreds of kids). Plus the private school counselors generally have relationships with the regional reps--sometimes very close relationships.

You don’t say. A couple years back the then-head of college admissions at a local private quit. I just looked it up, and it turns out the day they quit was the next business day after Wake released its RD decisions. Prior to that date, unofficial IG accounts showed regular Wake matriculations, and DCUM called Wake a safety for the bottom half of the class. But there are no matriculations to Wake on this school’s unofficial IG accounts since the day that head of admissions quit. Could be a coincidence, of course. Maybe Wake is out of fashion.

We're not talking about the same school. There was no admissions director turn-over at the 0-25 school I mentioned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no way colleges are organized enough to have a blacklist like you describe.

This is a stupid statement.

These people are educated, trained professionals with real knowledge of HS and the process, and yes they are likely better at it than the people at your job.

Try this: meet a few.

?? Admissions offices are mostly grads of decent colleges with humanities degrees who couldn’t find another job. Sure the Dean of admissions is highly trained and usually has a masters or PhD in higher Ed and has to be a leader in understanding admissions practices, but your everyday AO really isn’t that knowledgeable. You should read books from AOs

Yes, I have ready plenty of them, and you are incorrect.

Michelle Hernandez (Dartmouth), Chuck Hughes (Harvard), Fred Hargadon (Princeton), Rachel Toor (Duke)... these people wrote or were profiled in books and all of them are the opposite of what you suggest.

You don't actually know any AO's at elites, that's for sure. There's a process and they work hard. Some more than others, but the idea they have no differentiation of what HS are doing is preposterous, wrong, and stupid. The fact that you suggest I read the very books I have read, which prove my point and disproves yours indicates you haven't done what you suggest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you ever notice these made-up, fantasy, click-bait posts never reveal the particular high school that is blacklisted?

Curious, eh?

Bunch of twiddlin teenage morons and their morons who follow them.

More replies, yet not one high school named yet. The flat earthers are busy little bees this morning.

[Anonymous]

I’m not outing myself here. Why would I?

Go do your own research. Not helping any of you.