The one thing I can say with confidence this admissions season is that high stats kids I know...

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I don't think that's true of my kid or their friends.

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Anonymous wrote:all the top kids in our school are pretty much also going to state schools, heavily UVA (in state). Our valedictorian will be attending UVA and the salutatorian will be attending a SLAC on a full ride.

in previous years, where did they place?

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Anonymous wrote:I have a high stats kid from a public school who is choosing to attend a public university (Alabama) not because he lacked other options but because he fell in love with the campus and felt the Honors College offered many of the same benefits of the higher-ranked schools to which he was admitted while providing the resources of a large, academically reputable state school. Granted, he didn't apply to any T20s, but he got into multiple T50s (UNC-CH, UGA) as well as several highly ranked SLACs. But none of those schools offered him nearly a full ride scholarship, and Alabama did. And none came close to the amenities of the Honors College in terms of things like housing, food and priority class registration. There are some squares on DCUM who aren't impressed with his choice, but he's thrilled and can't wait to get on campus. Roll Tide!

Awesome! Can you share what he plans on studying at Alabama? I' m not familiar with the school and would like to add it to my DC's list.

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Anonymous wrote:all the top kids in our school are pretty much also going to state schools, heavily UVA (in state). Our valedictorian will be attending UVA and the salutatorian will be attending a SLAC on a full ride.

in previous years, where did they place?

well i'm clearly not in the know with all the schools they are attending from years prior though I do know some of the top kids definitely historically went to Ivies. I know some kids from 2019 attend Princeton and Brown.

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Anonymous wrote:Top schools are a lottery now. Many kids won't win. The secondary education system in this country is as broken as health care.

Why is it broken? Aren't the same number of kids getting in as always?

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Anonymous wrote:WITHOUT A HOOK, landed at public schools (UVA, UMich, California schools) and could not really break through to the T-20 coming from MCPS....is there just too much competition at these public schools and do privates have better placement? This is just my observation--have you seen the same?

That true ever year for 90% of top student.

It’s true gor private plans public but private kids have more hooks.

Most that land at public go for a very low price.

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Omg coeds. Please stop.

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That's ok. Go in public universities, get STEM degrees, wait for the losers to die of COVID complications in next few years, keep climbing the ladders of success, and have very little debt.

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Anonymous wrote:WITHOUT A HOOK, landed at public schools (UVA, UMich, California schools) and could not really break through to the T-20 coming from MCPS....is there just too much competition at these public schools and do privates have better placement? This is just my observation--have you seen the same?

No. But even my post is anecdata. I mean at our public magnet school, every kid is high stat. I know kids that got into places like CMU, MIT, UT@Austin, Rice, UCLA but not really Harvard. So sucks majorly for them. Without a hook, you don't land anywhere. Especially if Asian-American.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a high stats kid from a public school who is choosing to attend a public university (Alabama) not because he lacked other options but because he fell in love with the campus and felt the Honors College offered many of the same benefits of the higher-ranked schools to which he was admitted while providing the resources of a large, academically reputable state school. Granted, he didn't apply to any T20s, but he got into multiple T50s (UNC-CH, UGA) as well as several highly ranked SLACs. But none of those schools offered him nearly a full ride scholarship, and Alabama did. And none came close to the amenities of the Honors College in terms of things like housing, food and priority class registration. There are some squares on DCUM who aren't impressed with his choice, but he's thrilled and can't wait to get on campus. Roll Tide!

Congratulations to your son! DS just received mail from Alabama, and we were surprised. Excited to learn more about the school. : )

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Anonymous wrote:WITHOUT A HOOK, landed at public schools (UVA, UMich, California schools) and could not really break through to the T-20 coming from MCPS....is there just too much competition at these public schools and do privates have better placement? This is just my observation--have you seen the same?

No. But even my post is anecdata. I mean at our public magnet school, every kid is high stat. I know kids that got into places like CMU, MIT, UT@Austin, Rice, UCLA but not really Harvard. So sucks majorly for them. Without a hook, you don't land anywhere. Especially if Asian-American.

Huh, MIT "sucks majorly" Really???

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WITHOUT A HOOK, landed at public schools (UVA, UMich, California schools) and could not really break through to the T-20 coming from MCPS....is there just too much competition at these public schools and do privates have better placement? This is just my observation--have you seen the same?

No. But even my post is anecdata. I mean at our public magnet school, every kid is high stat. I know kids that got into places like CMU, MIT, UT@Austin, Rice, UCLA but not really Harvard. So sucks majorly for them. Without a hook, you don't land anywhere. Especially if Asian-American.

Huh, MIT "sucks majorly" Really???

My magnet kid is going to UMD but has friends going to colleges listed above and I’m impressed (plus Harvard). I’m impressed with all of them.

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Anonymous wrote:WITHOUT A HOOK, landed at public schools (UVA, UMich, California schools) and could not really break through to the T-20 coming from MCPS....is there just too much competition at these public schools and do privates have better placement? This is just my observation--have you seen the same?

No. But even my post is anecdata. I mean at our public magnet school, every kid is high stat. I know kids that got into places like CMU, MIT, UT@Austin, Rice, UCLA but not really Harvard. So sucks majorly for them. Without a hook, you don't land anywhere. Especially if Asian-American.

Are you saying going to CMU/MIT/Rice = not really landing anywhere?

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DCUM continues to melt down about their inability to buy, prep, and strategize their way into top schools. Poor you guys.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's just the school. It's the "parental awareness" of how to get into a top private - the right counselor, the right EC, etc. - which a public school DIY family, however educated or smart, just does not have.

That's crazy. That's me, boo. And I know what I'm doing.

Btw, are you saying private school parents can DIY but not public school parents? Gtfo.