Which level kid goes to which schools

[Anonymous]

gross Duke trolling on here

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At DC’s private school, over the past couple of years:

Top 10 percent: Harvard, Yale, Duke, Chicago, etc.
Next decile: Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Chicago, etc.
Next decile: Michigan, UVA, BC, etc.

Nobody is buying

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At DC’s private school, over the past couple of years:

Top 10 percent: Harvard, Yale, Duke, Chicago, etc.
Next decile: Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Chicago, etc.
Next decile: Michigan, UVA, BC, etc.

Stanford in the second decile? yeah right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Define “mid stats”?

I’m seeing a lot of kids with 1500+ SATs and almost perfect grades headed for Emory/Wash U/Tufts…

How on earth would you know their SAT scores and grades?

Navigate. And the a CDS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Define “mid stats”?

I’m seeing a lot of kids with 1500+ SATs and almost perfect grades headed for Emory/Wash U/Tufts…

How on earth would you know their SAT scores and grades?

Navigate. And the a CDS.

*Navience

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Non-DMV selective private:

--Top 10% or high stats + hook: HYP+ Columbia + Penn (Wharton), Duke
--High stats, missing national level ECs or hook: Northwestern, Brown, Penn, Dartmouth, Williams
—national ECs (stats irrelevant): Stanford; (and sometimes) Duke
--High stats + normal ECs OR some flaw on their record (like a bad grade or two) and hook - Cornell, Chicago, Rice, Vanderbilt, Amherst, Georgetown
--Mid stats + no hook - Michigan; UCLA; Cal; WashU; Emory

I think Cornell ED, Chicago ED, Rice ED and Vanderbilt ED, Emory ED, Wash U ED, Georgetown are all for mid-stats from our private. Michigan, UCLA, Cal are all for kids that are just below the top who did not do ED. Cornell and Chicago especially from NYC does not need high stats for ED.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At DC’s private school, over the past couple of years:

Top 10 percent: Harvard, Yale, Duke, Chicago, etc.
Next decile: Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Chicago, etc.
Next decile: Michigan, UVA, BC, etc.

Chicago ED belongs in thr 3rd or below decile, Duke in the second and Stanford in the first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Non-DMV selective private:

--Top 10% or high stats + hook: HYP+ Columbia + Penn (Wharton), Duke
--High stats, missing national level ECs or hook: Northwestern, Brown, Penn, Dartmouth, Williams
—national ECs (stats irrelevant): Stanford; (and sometimes) Duke
--High stats + normal ECs OR some flaw on their record (like a bad grade or two) and hook - Cornell, Chicago, Rice, Vanderbilt, Amherst, Georgetown
--Mid stats + no hook - Michigan; UCLA; Cal; WashU; Emory

Impressive for mid stats IMO!

If you are oos, mid stats don't get you into UCLA, Cal. That's hilarious.

My high stats CS Major DC from a magnet program was rejected at UCLA and Cal. They are at UMD.

[Anonymous]

I don't believe this post for a minute. OP is either a troll or has bad data. Schools are even less likely to take very good but not amazing applicants from the NYC area (it is more competitive than DC comparatively). The hooks are even more important. They do have a similar trend of high stats rich kids without hooks heading to UChicago over the last several years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At DC’s private school, over the past couple of years:

Top 10 percent: Harvard, Yale, Duke, Chicago, etc.
Next decile: Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Chicago, etc.
Next decile: Michigan, UVA, BC, etc.

Chicago ED belongs in thr 3rd or below decile, Duke in the second and Stanford in the first.

Even if the schools don't technically rank, we all know these insights are off. The kids outside the top 10%, even at the top DC schools, are not regularly getting admitted to almost any of the schools in the next decile without a real hook (there are plenty of threads where parents complain about it).

[Anonymous]

Yeah this entire thread is people basically just ranking which universities they think are best. Not actually reality of where kids go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Non-DMV selective private:

--Top 10% or high stats + hook: HYP+ Columbia + Penn (Wharton), Duke
--High stats, missing national level ECs or hook: Northwestern, Brown, Penn, Dartmouth, Williams
—national ECs (stats irrelevant): Stanford; (and sometimes) Duke
--High stats + normal ECs OR some flaw on their record (like a bad grade or two) and hook - Cornell, Chicago, Rice, Vanderbilt, Amherst, Georgetown
--Mid stats + no hook - Michigan; UCLA; Cal; WashU; Emory

Impressive for mid stats IMO!

If you are oos, mid stats don't get you into UCLA, Cal. That's hilarious.

My high stats CS Major DC from a magnet program was rejected at UCLA and Cal. They are at UMD.

They will for non CS or engineering….
Most of this is nonCS. That has its own rubric.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't believe this post for a minute. OP is either a troll or has bad data. Schools are even less likely to take very good but not amazing applicants from the NYC area (it is more competitive than DC comparatively). The hooks are even more important. They do have a similar trend of high stats rich kids without hooks heading to UChicago over the last several years.

Right? I think this is BS too. The assumption that mediocre private school students are just waltzing into Vanderbilt, Rice, Cornell, Berkeley, UCLA, Amherst, Michigan, Georgetown, Emory, and Stanford (!) is not borne out by reality. In fact, I'd say mediocre private school students are at a distinct disadvantage these days. The full pay gets them a boost at T50-100 schools, but does nothing for the highly selective universities.

[Anonymous]

From NYC boarding school:

Best of the best - Harvard, Princeton, Wharton, occasional MIT (MIT does not fit the archetype of many students), no one really goes to Stanford or Caltech but the rare ones who do usually are in this grouping
Microstep below the absolute best - Columbia, Duke, Yale, Penn, sometimes Brown/Dartmouth/WASP
Very good - Vanderbilt, Cornell, Georgetown, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At DC’s private school, over the past couple of years:

Top 10 percent: Harvard, Yale, Duke, Chicago, etc.
Next decile: Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Chicago, etc.
Next decile: Michigan, UVA, BC, etc.

Stanford in the second decile? yeah right.

Well, that was the outcome. The Stanford kid was a legacy.