Do not provide all of this information. It will make you readily identifiable to the college, your high school, and your fellow students and parents. And not any of them will appreciate your publicly sharing the information. Instead, just please offer the college name, and the decision, accepted, deferred, rejected. |
College Applied to: Pomona College
Result: Deferred SAT/ACT: 1540 SAT (770 Math, 770 Reading), 750 Literature Subject Test, 790 Chemistry Subject Test, 800 Math II Subject Test Class rank: Salutatorian Legacy: None URM: No Aid: Full Pay Why: Her top choice Next steps: Apply EDII at either UChicago or Swarthmore, apply RD to Amherst, Carleton, Colby, Bowdoin, Barnard, Wellesley, Columbia, Yale, Tufts. Already admitted to a match and safety school. |
Tulane.
Accepted. |
Stepson rejected ED Stanford.
Nephew deferred ED Swarthmore. Both jarring surprises. |
With 5% acceptance rate, no one should be surprised to be rejected from Stanford. |
Cornell. Son's best friend, top of the class grades and scores, but no hooks. Deferred. Shit. I got in 30 years ago with stats half as good. |
I rarely see a kid on College Confidential who gave themselves a mediocre or even average rating for recommendation letters. All of them seem to think that they rate 9s or 10s and have excellent recommendation letters. Either they are overestimating themselves or these teachers all say every kid is fabulous - which sort of negates the whole point.
I'm also seeing a greater number of admits with hooks of being URM, first gen or having significantly low income for the very exclusive schools. I feel somewhat bad for the Asian kids who seem to be at a significant disadvantage - a lot of rejections. |
Are you sure? My simple math suggests this might be true. |
So tough out there for a girl. Would recommend Swarthmore in ED II if she would be happy there. If she didn't get into Pomona ED, not likely to get into Columbia, Yale, maybe not Amherst or Tufts (due to yield protection) |
What is the point of that? Totally useless. |
It's actually a very good sign to be deferred from Pomona. They're like Stanford in that they reject the majority of their early candidates and defer only a select few who they like but want to review later. Most other LACs and east coast universities resort to deferring most ED students, which is basically a courtesy rejection (though a small group does get in later). I don't think that people on this board realize how selective it is to get into Pomona. They have the second lowest ED acceptance rate in the country after Columbia University- yes, more than UChicago, Brown, Penn, etc. Their overall acceptance rate for females was just 7% last year. I would not read too much into this as a sign for what is to come. That goes for any highly selective ED program, though, not just Pomona. As pointed out previously, even at the LACs where the ED acceptance rate is much higher, that number is skewed by recruited athletes. That list does feel reach-heavy, though. I might encourage her to add Vassar, Wesleyan, Scripps, Smith, and other less selective LACs. Her stats might get her merit aid from some of them. And it never hurts to reflect on the application to see if you could do something different. |
Same for essays. Every kid has 9/10 for essays. How would they know? |
Not OP, but just wanted to say thank you for posting! |
I'm assuming the Pomona poster is full of crap. Same booster on here every week. Worse than the Penn parents. |
OP, can you ask Jeff to delete your thread and re-post something less invasive. This is asking to dox local kids. Thanks. |