What's it like when your child gets accepted to HYPS?

[Anonymous]

No there isn't. Yale and Harvard are so different from each other. The students who pick Yale do so because of its great residential culture, great faculty relationships, community invested peers, and the liberal arts emphasis. Pick a selection of any 10 random students who got admitted to Yale if they'd take the offer to Harvard and I doubt more than 1 or 2 would. Sure Yale loses to cross-admits on a 60:40 ratio, but the 40% who pick Yale pick it for a reason.

[Anonymous]

All I know is there were a group of us yentas who'd all gossip about where the seniors got in, who deserved it, who didn't sort of thing. Then when my son got into Princeton I noticed nobody gossiped anymore — at least around me. HA!

[Anonymous]

Everyone in the high school finds out. Don't ask me how, they just do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No there isn't. Yale and Harvard are so different from each other. The students who pick Yale do so because of its great residential culture, great faculty relationships, community invested peers, and the liberal arts emphasis. Pick a selection of any 10 random students who got admitted to Yale if they'd take the offer to Harvard and I doubt more than 1 or 2 would. Sure Yale loses to cross-admits on a 60:40 ratio, but the 40% who pick Yale pick it for a reason.

Dont delude yourself. A lot of Yalies pick Yale because they could not make it to Harvard. Sure some cross-admits choose it over Harvard for the reasons you mention but most of these hypercompeititive kids choose based on prestige. They have not experienced yet the benefits of the Yale undergrad experience for themselves so it is not as big of a driver as the prestige differential. I know for a fact that there is a big number of Yalies lamenting the fact that they were not accepted to Harvard. One of my kids went to Yale. Yale offers by far the better undergrad experience and I am very glad DC ended up there, wouldn't trade it for anything.

[Anonymous]

Bluebirds sing? You have a life of complete joy from that point onward?

It's...not that big a deal. Don't crow about it; just answer the question if someone asks where the kid is going.

(Because this is about your kid. Not you.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you keep it a secret or spill the beans on facebook pretty quickly? Are you hounded with questions on how you did it? Are there passive aggressive haters jealous their kid didn't get in some place that elite? Or maybe nobody really cares?

I think you should tell everyone but only whenever the conversation leads to that topic. Do not force it because then you will be perceived as a show off. But since you have kids applying to college sooner or later the topic will come up when talking to friends, relatives, colleagues etc. When it does then casually mention it.

People do get jealous for sure. Especially people whose kids were striving for HYPS but only got into lesser elites (i.e. non-HYP ivies, Duke, Chicago etc) are especially jealous.

So true, in the right circles a HYPS admission can cause a lot pf people to turn green of envy. If your kid goes to an elite private, find a parent you absolutely can't stand and whose kid got into a lower ivy or even better yet to a non-ivy. Then casually drop the HYPS bomb. The best revenge ever. Tried and true

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kw3ko_VyFs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you keep it a secret or spill the beans on facebook pretty quickly? Are you hounded with questions on how you did it? Are there passive aggressive haters jealous their kid didn't get in some place that elite? Or maybe nobody really cares?

I think you should tell everyone but only whenever the conversation leads to that topic. Do not force it because then you will be perceived as a show off. But since you have kids applying to college sooner or later the topic will come up when talking to friends, relatives, colleagues etc. When it does then casually mention it.

People do get jealous for sure. Especially people whose kids were striving for HYPS but only got into lesser elites (i.e. non-HYP ivies, Duke, Chicago etc) are especially jealous.

So true, in the right circles a HYPS admission can cause a lot pf people to turn green of envy. If your kid goes to an elite private, find a parent you absolutely can't stand and whose kid got into a lower ivy or even better yet to a non-ivy. Then casually drop the HYPS bomb. The best revenge ever. Tried and true

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kw3ko_VyFs

Is English your second language?

[Anonymous]

And DC conferred with Princeton graduates now in DC's chosen field and they said forget Princeton - not enough focus on undergrads ... which they can now see. Go figure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And DC conferred with Princeton graduates now in DC's chosen field and they said forget Princeton - not enough focus on undergrads ... which they can now see. Go figure.

Princeton not enough focus on undergrads?! wth?

[Anonymous]

We sent out engraved cards to every relative, friend, neighbor, coworker, and (of course) every parent at the school. What's the point unless you get to brag about it.

Seriously, my son let his aunts, uncle, and grandparents know. They said 'congrats' and that's about it.

[Anonymous]

my guidance counselor, also my track coach, found on first and called me into his office with the Principal. Full ride, athletic scholarship. I think they told some teachers after that and it kind of buzzed around but most of the school didn't care whatsoever. same for the occidental, oberlin, other couple ivy kids.

[Anonymous]

I had a couple dozen people waiting to hear where my DC got into on Ivy day. Went 4 for 5 that afternoon and added the S to the acceptance pile the next evening. Everyone finds out when a kid has those kind of results. Only experienced petty jealousy from one mom whose kid struck out with elite schools. Acquaintances with sophomores and juniors want to know who/if you used a college consultant and what you did for standardized test prep. Everyone asks high school seniors and recent grads where they are going to college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:my guidance counselor, also my track coach, found on first and called me into his office with the Principal. Full ride, athletic scholarship. I think they told some teachers after that and it kind of buzzed around but most of the school didn't care whatsoever. same for the occidental, oberlin, other couple ivy kids.

?? The Ivies don't give athletic scholarships..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you keep it a secret or spill the beans on facebook pretty quickly? Are you hounded with questions on how you did it? Are there passive aggressive haters jealous their kid didn't get in some place that elite? Or maybe nobody really cares?

I think you should tell everyone but only whenever the conversation leads to that topic. Do not force it because then you will be perceived as a show off. But since you have kids applying to college sooner or later the topic will come up when talking to friends, relatives, colleagues etc. When it does then casually mention it.

People do get jealous for sure. Especially people whose kids were striving for HYPS but only got into lesser elites (i.e. non-HYP ivies, Duke, Chicago etc) are especially jealous.

So true, in the right circles a HYPS admission can cause a lot pf people to turn green of envy. If your kid goes to an elite private, find a parent you absolutely can't stand and whose kid got into a lower ivy or even better yet to a non-ivy. Then casually drop the HYPS bomb. The best revenge ever. Tried and true

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kw3ko_VyFs

I don't get the video.

[Anonymous]

^In the last few seconds of the clip they take a dig at Brown. They say that they are gonna brag about their granddaughter getting into Yale to some friends whose son was not good enough to even get into Brown.

This post has to be the single cattiest, most elitist and straight up dumbest one I have seen on DCUM in a while. Do people actually think like that?! smdh