Stats for Ivy?
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Anonymous
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Why not? They have the stats for the lottery ticket.
They are reaches for everyone because all applicants have those grades/scores |
Anonymous
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Go for it. IME you don't know ahead of time which applications are going to "hit" and which aren't. I would say 2/3rds of the HYPSM accepts from DC's school had clear hooks (URM, athlete, super pointy), but at least 1/3 did not. Something in their app resonated with AOs. You don't know until you try.
(on the downside, we know a handful of extremely deserving kids who got shut out from all selective schools. No rhyme or reason there, either. |
Anonymous
Great profile. But everytime I hear of a top-stat kid gets shut out from Ivies and ends up at a safety, they are from normal publics (not TJ). Those kids get better results aiming for T15-30, not Ivy+. |
Anonymous
There is no way to determine without knowing how the course rigor compares to the topmost students and to a lesser degree how the 4.8w compares, as well as how many students go to ivies from the school each year |
Anonymous
| Sure but you still have a 5% chance of getting in. Probably less unless a recruited athlete, ROTC, URM, or celebrity/politician kid. |
Anonymous
This. Rightly or wrongly, many Ivy admission officers assume most schools they are not familiar with have grade inflation. I know people love to hate on feeder privates, but my niece just finished freshman year at an Ivy, she came from a feeder where she wasn’t even too 10% of class, she said first year at the Ivy was so much easier than expected but she saw lots of non-feeder kids who were top of their HS struggle. |
Anonymous
| Re-take the ACT. It’s not high enough for DCUM standards. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
Need something kind of quirky. Artsy? Brown?? |
Anonymous
This. Public school kids are kids of death in today’s environment. What major? Try ED1 for Brown? ED2 - Rice, Vanderbilt, WashU? |
Anonymous
Pretty basic for Ivies. These stats will get you a lottery ticket. |
Anonymous
The grades aren’t special? Are you drunk? The kid has a 4.0 UW. What else should it be? |
Anonymous
Great stats; but stats are just what you need to get onto the field. The real game is outside of stats and it basically means that you need to assume 'no' because everyone has the stats. |
Anonymous
| Without knowing how much grade inflation at her school and what the pointy interest and internships are, impossible to guess. When pp said the grades weren’t “special,” they meant that at some local public schools, 20 percent or more of the class has a 4.0. Big difference between applying from a school with that type of grade inflation and one where that gpa truly puts your child in the top 5 kids on the class, so that’s the first thing to determine. |
Anonymous
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Its a bog standard cv
missing only sports and musical prowess where were the internships and what is the pointy interest? These are going to have to be astonishing to make up for the gaps |