Worth it's own post: The Harvard-Westlake college matriculation data!!

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Anonymous wrote:Generally, rich kids do fine OP, even if they are mediocre students or people

This is just flat out wrong. Have you seen Episcopal High schools matriculation data? They have the highest endowment in the dc area and the non athletes all end up at safety schools.

Yeah, though I will add that in general, old money Virginia Episcopalians tend to be much more laid-back about where you go to college than other private school attendees. I will not deny that part of this is probably due to having so much privilege that you realize you'll be okay no matter where you go.

(My husband's family sends their kids to Episcopal and they've been in northern VA since the colonial days.)

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Parent of an aspiring HW kid here. It's surprising how some of the small LACs in the Northeast get a lot of applicants from HW. Colgate has one of the highest number of applicants and even Bowdoin gets more applications than Claremont McKenna. Any reason why these schools are so popular (can't imagine it's for the weather). Are kids from HW actually enrolling at these schools. Would love some feedback as we are a Northeast family that will be relocating to the L.A. area in about 2 years. Just wondering if many kids from HW end up at colleges in the Northeast? Would be ironic if we moved out West and then kid came back to this area for college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parent of an aspiring HW kid here. It's surprising how some of the small LACs in the Northeast get a lot of applicants from HW. Colgate has one of the highest number of applicants and even Bowdoin gets more applications than Claremont McKenna. Any reason why these schools are so popular (can't imagine it's for the weather). Are kids from HW actually enrolling at these schools. Would love some feedback as we are a Northeast family that will be relocating to the L.A. area in about 2 years. Just wondering if many kids from HW end up at colleges in the Northeast? Would be ironic if we moved out West and then kid came back to this area for college.

I’m going to guess those kids don’t have the stats for Claremont McKenna.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Parent of an aspiring HW kid here. It's surprising how some of the small LACs in the Northeast get a lot of applicants from HW. Colgate has one of the highest number of applicants and even Bowdoin gets more applications than Claremont McKenna. Any reason why these schools are so popular (can't imagine it's for the weather). Are kids from HW actually enrolling at these schools. Would love some feedback as we are a Northeast family that will be relocating to the L.A. area in about 2 years. Just wondering if many kids from HW end up at colleges in the Northeast? Would be ironic if we moved out West and then kid came back to this area for college.

I’m going to guess those kids don’t have the stats for Claremont McKenna.

What's even likelier is that the kids want to have a completely different experience than SoCal.

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The current HW handbook doesn't list the admissions stats but the 2021 handbook does include the tables with the hooked and unhooked students, you can find it on the web archive. You can use that to calculate the (rather astonishing) difference in admit rates between hooked and unhooked students, which for the classes of 2017-2019 was:
Hooked Unhooked
Brown 47.2% 8.7%
Columbia 48.4% 14.1%
Cornell 60.0% 14.9%
Dartmouth 34.6% 11.6%
Harvard 44.4% 8.0%
Princeton 38.5% 5.5%
Stanford 27.5% 7.8%
UPenn 55.6% 11.2%
Yale 20.0% 14.7%

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah that list is interesting - with the exception of NYU there doesn't seem to be any huge advantage to HW. Really shocked that 26 applications to UNC netted 0 acceptances - what's going on there?? Or Stanford, wouldn't you think they'd have more than 7 acceptances out of 86 applications? Same with UVA, Princeton, MIT, Harvard - these numbers don't look out of line with what you'd expect from any HS.

Yield protection for UNC. They know HW kids aren’t going to attend.

Keep telling yourself that BS. UNC may very well be the most selective public school for OOS applicants in the country.

You are joking, right?

The OOS acceptance rate to UNC for the most recent entering class was 8.2 percent. Show me a lower one.

UT Austin: 8%

https://collegegazette.com/university-of-texas-at-austin-acceptance-rate-gpa-requirements/

UVA - 8% OOS

Every state flagship has had record applications due to test optional policies. Acceptance rates metrics need to be recalibrated.


https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2023/03/regular-decision-brings-overall-u-va-acceptance-rate-to-16-percent#:~:text=The%20University%20has%20committed%20to,out%2Dof%2Dstate%20applicants.

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Anonymous wrote:The current HW handbook doesn't list the admissions stats but the 2021 handbook does include the tables with the hooked and unhooked students, you can find it on the web archive. You can use that to calculate the (rather astonishing) difference in admit rates between hooked and unhooked students, which for the classes of 2017-2019 was:
Hooked Unhooked
Brown 47.2% 8.7%
Columbia 48.4% 14.1%
Cornell 60.0% 14.9%
Dartmouth 34.6% 11.6%
Harvard 44.4% 8.0%
Princeton 38.5% 5.5%
Stanford 27.5% 7.8%
UPenn 55.6% 11.2%
Yale 20.0% 14.7%

How are they defining hooked?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Parent of an aspiring HW kid here. It's surprising how some of the small LACs in the Northeast get a lot of applicants from HW. Colgate has one of the highest number of applicants and even Bowdoin gets more applications than Claremont McKenna. Any reason why these schools are so popular (can't imagine it's for the weather). Are kids from HW actually enrolling at these schools. Would love some feedback as we are a Northeast family that will be relocating to the L.A. area in about 2 years. Just wondering if many kids from HW end up at colleges in the Northeast? Would be ironic if we moved out West and then kid came back to this area for college.

I’m going to guess those kids don’t have the stats for Claremont McKenna.

What's even likelier is that the kids want to have a completely different experience than SoCal.

+1

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How are they defining hooked?

Legacy, athletes, URM, and "developmental families". About ~30% of HW applicants to ivies are considered hooked.

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What on earth is a developmental family? Aren't we all?