Getting shut out of selective/competitive private schools
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Anonymous
+1. For an Econ major, I would ED2 at Middleburry. That and Williams are my dream schools! I don’t understand the large state flagship craze and would hire a grad from a top SLAC over that any day, but to each their own. |
Anonymous
What the actual heck?! My kid attend a small private in NYC. Every year it sends 40-45% of the class to Ivies + MIT and Stanford, another 40-45% to Top 25 + top 10 LACs and the bottom 10% go to schools like St. Andrews and the likes. Top, rigorous small privates tend to have amazing exmissions. |
Anonymous
| Yes but the 33 is not high enough for a definitive shot at Midd plus the kid probably does not have a first gen hook which is big at Middlebury. |
Anonymous
Only real shot is Bucknell. |
Anonymous
It’s probably going to be.10% acceptance this year. No shot. |
Anonymous
Agree, 33is not weak for many of the schools on the list. |
Anonymous
Don't mean this unkindly, but reality check Brown, Rice, WashU, Vandy, Emory, Williams, Wesleyan, and Middlebury are not likely to happen. 33 is not high enough. 3.82 doesn't say much on its own. Private school and all that. Different measurements. But you are competing with public school kids that have taken a dozen APs and are rolling with 4.7s and 36s. The ECs would really need to be extra special. Plus the essays. And the recs. Bucknell, Colgate, and even Wake Forest are possible. Strategically, it would have been much better to apply ED. Do not get down about large flagships. They often have great programs and are great feeders into lots of companies and organizations. Best of luck. It'll work out fine in the end. |
Anonymous
Maybe Bucknell, but Colgate should have been an ED. This is the problem that ED has created. There is a huge range of schools that slightly less than perfect kids can only get into ED, but you can only ED to one. If it’s a miss, you fall pretty far down the list. |
Anonymous
That’s because NY means big money. |
Anonymous
Money, legacies, knowing people, etc. And, small class size. Its very different with 100 graduates and 500-700 graduates at a school. |
Anonymous
Great student but IMO chances are not at all good for the above schools. I wouldn't report the 33 ACT to these schools. Has your DC applied to targets and likelies? Or only reaches? |
Anonymous
I disagree - IMO only Bucknell is a match - the rest are all reaches for all |
Anonymous
Colgate 50% Bucknell 30% Middlebury 5% Wesleyan 7% Williams 5% Wake 7% Emory 7% Vanderbilt 3% Wash U 5% Rice 3% Brown 1% |
Anonymous
Bump Bucknell to 70% |
Anonymous
That kind of result is very rare — only seen it at a handful of schools in NY, Boston, couple of boarding. Here in the Bay Area, kids attending private selective high schools are not getting into schools like that. My kids did pretty well but they did a lot of activities outside of school and didn’t rely on the school for any bump. |