Best traction at the Ivies?

[Anonymous]

I don’t know about all colleges but for Harvard a legacy for admissions purposes is the son or daughter of one or more parents who attended Harvard college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think there were also 2 at MIT. One of the Harvard was not legacy.

I think all 4 Harvard were legacy, double legacy, or legacy/VIP

University of Michigan 8
Tufts 7
Wash U 7
Brown 6
NYU 6
Duke 5
Cornell 4
Harvard 4
Macalaster 4
Tulane 4
University of Toronto 4
University of Wisconsin 4
Boston College 3
Georgetown 3
UPenn 3
University of Chicago 3
Wesleyan 3
Yale 3

GDS pretty clearly hasn't been pushing ED2 at Chicago the way others have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do top private schools ask or take into account where parents went to school in their admissions processes?
It would be fairly easy to use that info to continue to make a matriculation list look good with legacies if those parents have strong child applicants for high school (I hope they don't ask for 3rd grade).

I'm interested in knowing this too. In the application process, are private schools asking where parents went to college and grad school or just asking about the highest level of education completed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do top private schools ask or take into account where parents went to school in their admissions processes?
It would be fairly easy to use that info to continue to make a matriculation list look good with legacies if those parents have strong child applicants for high school (I hope they don't ask for 3rd grade).

I'm interested in knowing this too. In the application process, are private schools asking where parents went to college and grad school or just asking about the highest level of education completed.

They are asking. Whatever pull a parent had is likely to benefit a child - legacy, athletic prowess, intelligence, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think there were also 2 at MIT. One of the Harvard was not legacy.

I think all 4 Harvard were legacy, double legacy, or legacy/VIP

University of Michigan 8
Tufts 7
Wash U 7
Brown 6
NYU 6
Duke 5
Cornell 4
Harvard 4
Macalaster 4
Tulane 4
University of Toronto 4
University of Wisconsin 4
Boston College 3
Georgetown 3
UPenn 3
University of Chicago 3
Wesleyan 3
Yale 3

3/4 Harvard were significant legacy (both parents, multiple degrees, VIPs). 3/4 were also URM.
These kids would have gone to Harvard from any high school they attended (DCPS, MCPS, Sidwell, etc).
It was the same the prior year. The GDS Harvard admits were all the kids of legacy VIPs.
GDS did not turn these kids into Harvard admits: they were handed Harvard admits when they admitted these kids.

This is not to downplay these kids' accomplishments but rather to just paint a realistic picture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are considering GDS in part based on what seems to be an amazing Ivy placement record.

Ugh, please don't let college admissions be a reason for considering GDS. Lots of other reasons to like the school, and we've been very happy there, but no kid deserves that kind of parental expectation IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gds list is really helpful. Can you post 2021?

Thanks

I posted. It’s data from 2021 and 2022 combined. Everything reported publicly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Gds list is really helpful. Can you post 2021?

Thanks


I posted. It’s data from 2021 and 2022 combined. Everything reported publicly.

But four got into Harvard in 22 so does that mean no one from class of 21?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Gds list is really helpful. Can you post 2021?

Thanks


I posted. It’s data from 2021 and 2022 combined. Everything reported publicly.

But four got into Harvard in 22 so does that mean no one from class of 21?

Sorry let me be more clear - this is combined (together) data from 21+22 as reported in public channels (insta). The data seems mostly complete for 22 and only partial for 21. That’s all I have. The actual numbers are likely higher but I don’t have any more source data.

[Anonymous]

Interesting that Princeton isn’t all that popular at GDS. Always viewed as the “southern Ivy”. Maybe it’s a political thing? Weird relative to the other top Ivies.

I think one athlete committed there this year already. Otherwise, GDS and Princeton no likey each other?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think there were also 2 at MIT. One of the Harvard was not legacy.

I think all 4 Harvard were legacy, double legacy, or legacy/VIP

University of Michigan 8
Tufts 7
Wash U 7
Brown 6
NYU 6
Duke 5
Cornell 4
Harvard 4
Macalaster 4
Tulane 4
University of Toronto 4
University of Wisconsin 4
Boston College 3
Georgetown 3
UPenn 3
University of Chicago 3
Wesleyan 3
Yale 3

3/4 Harvard were significant legacy (both parents, multiple degrees, VIPs). 3/4 were also URM.
These kids would have gone to Harvard from any high school they attended (DCPS, MCPS, Sidwell, etc).
It was the same the prior year. The GDS Harvard admits were all the kids of legacy VIPs.
GDS did not turn these kids into Harvard admits: they were handed Harvard admits when they admitted these kids.

This is not to downplay these kids' accomplishments but rather to just paint a realistic picture.

Exactly. GDS parent here. Still think it’s practically impossible for unhooked GDS kid to get into Harvard. Full stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Gds list is really helpful. Can you post 2021?

Thanks


I posted. It’s data from 2021 and 2022 combined. Everything reported publicly.

But four got into Harvard in 22 so does that mean no one from class of 21?

Sorry let me be more clear - this is combined (together) data from 21+22 as reported in public channels (insta). The data seems mostly complete for 22 and only partial for 21. That’s all I have. The actual numbers are likely higher but I don’t have any more source data.

Sorry, but when you said "public channels" and then clarified that you actually meant IG, that confirmed how skewed your reporting is. If you look at the list of schools where GDS 2022 seniors went to college - just published in the school magazine - it's very obvious that the post is misleadingly incomplete.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Gds list is really helpful. Can you post 2021?

Thanks


I posted. It’s data from 2021 and 2022 combined. Everything reported publicly.

But four got into Harvard in 22 so does that mean no one from class of 21?


Sorry let me be more clear - this is combined (together) data from 21+22 as reported in public channels (insta). The data seems mostly complete for 22 and only partial for 21. That’s all I have. The actual numbers are likely higher but I don’t have any more source data.

makes sense - thanks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Gds list is really helpful. Can you post 2021?

Thanks


I posted. It’s data from 2021 and 2022 combined. Everything reported publicly.

But four got into Harvard in 22 so does that mean no one from class of 21?

Sorry let me be more clear - this is combined (together) data from 21+22 as reported in public channels (insta). The data seems mostly complete for 22 and only partial for 21. That’s all I have. The actual numbers are likely higher but I don’t have any more source data.

Sorry, but when you said "public channels" and then clarified that you actually meant IG, that confirmed how skewed your reporting is. If you look at the list of schools where GDS 2022 seniors went to college - just published in the school magazine - it's very obvious that the post is misleadingly incomplete.

I don’t understand your point. The school doesn’t post how many from each class get into each school. They just post a list of all enrollments. 4 Harvard are listed as just Harvard. No number.

Would you rather I didn’t post that data? I was very upfront about what it was. Good lord some people are beyond annoying. Only trying to help quantify something the school does not quantify. If you have a better way to do it, please please be my guest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think there were also 2 at MIT. One of the Harvard was not legacy.

I think all 4 Harvard were legacy, double legacy, or legacy/VIP

University of Michigan 8
Tufts 7
Wash U 7
Brown 6
NYU 6
Duke 5
Cornell 4
Harvard 4
Macalaster 4
Tulane 4
University of Toronto 4
University of Wisconsin 4
Boston College 3
Georgetown 3
UPenn 3
University of Chicago 3
Wesleyan 3
Yale 3

3/4 Harvard were significant legacy (both parents, multiple degrees, VIPs). 3/4 were also URM.
These kids would have gone to Harvard from any high school they attended (DCPS, MCPS, Sidwell, etc).
It was the same the prior year. The GDS Harvard admits were all the kids of legacy VIPs.
GDS did not turn these kids into Harvard admits: they were handed Harvard admits when they admitted these kids.

This is not to downplay these kids' accomplishments but rather to just paint a realistic picture.

Exactly. GDS parent here. Still think it’s practically impossible for unhooked GDS kid to get into Harvard. Full stop.

Or unhooked kids at any elite private school.