Competitive schools that were easy to get into for kids in our HS

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Links or it didn't happen.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our HS published a college report with the number of kids who applied and how many got in and there's some that shocked me.

Colby College, 15 applied, 12 got in!! 80% when national acceptance is 8%
Darthmouth, 50 applied, 10 got in. 20% acceptance
Brown, 20 applied, 6 got in

Do some schools have high schools they just like more than others? This is a large public school.

Colby is practically open enrollment if you apply ED, TO, and full pay. The overall acceptance rate is low in large part due to the UChicago/Tulane/Northeastern style spamming they do to drum up applications in the RD round.

Oof! Seeing U of C on the same list as places like Tulane and Northeastern makes me so sad. It used to be a place associated with exceptional intellectual curiosity … but on DCUM it’s known as a spam factory. I hope that’s not really the case …

I discovered on DCUM that Chicago ED1 has an 80% acceptance rate because they are about to go bankrupt.

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Anonymous wrote:Links or it didn't happen.

Agreed, didn’t happen.

[Anonymous]

This has to be Exeter or St Paul's or some elite prep school that just has nothing to do with everyone else's reality (even though things are totally different than they were fifty years ago!).

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OP claims it’s a large public school…but agree it seems inconceivable that Dartmouth would receive so many applications unless maybe it’s a large public Boston-area public.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our HS published a college report with the number of kids who applied and how many got in and there's some that shocked me.

Colby College, 15 applied, 12 got in!! 80% when national acceptance is 8%
Darthmouth, 50 applied, 10 got in. 20% acceptance
Brown, 20 applied, 6 got in

Do some schools have high schools they just like more than others? This is a large public school.

This year last year when?

Our school had
22 U Mich
21 Boston college
Acceptances

It’s not that big of a school. I’m thinking it might be the same one

yes

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Anonymous wrote:This has to be Exeter or St Paul's or some elite prep school that just has nothing to do with everyone else's reality (even though things are totally different than they were fifty years ago!).

OP said it’s a public.

This is very suspect, there are some schools in-state that matriculate a lot to UPenn, Harvard and Cornell.

Dartmouth and Brown in particular are ones that seem to take 0-2 and good chance of one being a recruit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our HS published a college report with the number of kids who applied and how many got in and there's some that shocked me.

Colby College, 15 applied, 12 got in!! 80% when national acceptance is 8%
Darthmouth, 50 applied, 10 got in. 20% acceptance
Brown, 20 applied, 6 got in

Do some schools have high schools they just like more than others? This is a large public school.

This year last year when?

Our school had
22 U Mich
21 Boston college
Acceptances

It’s not that big of a school. I’m thinking it might be the same one

With just those two colleges, that is more students than there are in my kids' Senior class, lol.

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago had a quarter-Billion operating deficit last year.

OMG. I don’t recall it getting a bad grade on the Forbes list, but maybe this came out after? Drexel also in bad shape but not reflected in Forbes financial grades due to timing of disclosure.

[Anonymous]

OP, I'm guessing it's Whitman or similar. They like your money and your (more liberal) education.

[Anonymous]

Could be New Trier in Chicago - it’s large enough and rich enough for those numbers

[Anonymous]

I think OP is trolling.

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Anonymous wrote:Could be New Trier in Chicago - it’s large enough and rich enough for those numbers

Not large enough for 50 Dartmouth apps, no. No public is that large.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Could be New Trier in Chicago - it’s large enough and rich enough for those numbers

New Trier
Boston Latin
TJ
Stuyvesant

There are a number of competitive public schools in this country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our HS published a college report with the number of kids who applied and how many got in and there's some that shocked me.

Colby College, 15 applied, 12 got in!! 80% when national acceptance is 8%
Darthmouth, 50 applied, 10 got in. 20% acceptance
Brown, 20 applied, 6 got in

Do some schools have high schools they just like more than others? This is a large public school.

Is this in one year?