All these smart kids are getting rejected across the board

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Anonymous wrote:I am hearing about these kids who have near perfect grades, super high SAT scores and strong extracurricular activities and they are getting rejected across the board. The parents are well educated professionals. The kids are getting rejected from their parents’ alma maters.

I feel like this same kids would be ivy bound 20-30 years ago.

This is not happening. Stop the fear mongering.

It happened twice in my family: once with a nephew and once with my cousin's daughter.

My cousin's daughter graduated #1 in her class last year. Her SAT was in the high 1400s and ACT was nearly perfect at 35. She took a total of 10 AP courses and scored 5s on 6 and 4s on 4. She had strong extracurriculars including a research biology internship two summers in a row.

Rejected from UVA, which was her first choice, and also rejected from W&M, VA Tech, MIT, Stanford, the Ivies, and Duke. She got waitlisted at FSU, UCLA, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Cal Tech, and Rice. She did get off the waitlist at Rice but she was scrambling while on the waitlist to apply to places with rolling admission. Her counselor was stunned.

My cousin and her husband consulted with a professional college counselor after the fact to see what went wrong in preparation for her younger sister when it was her turn to apply. Basically, she was a dime-a-dozen at places like UVA, the ivies, Duke, MIT, etc. and even with her excellent resume, there was nothing that made her stand out. Schools like FSU and UCLA looked at her incredible stats and grouped her as a "she's applying here as a safety" so they waitlisted.

My nephew had good stats but his downfall was parents who were a bit too out of touch with the college process. He's the youngest and there's a big 12 year age gap. Their next youngest was 30 when my nephew was a senior, so they were going off their experiences and expectations from years prior. Both of their older kids went to their alma mater UNC. They are all donors but not HUGE donors and thought he would get in no problem because compared to his siblings, he was a better student and he was also a two-sport athlete. He got rejected from UNC and all the others. Big gut punch for him. He did community college for 1 year and ended up transferring to Wake Forest.

Hmm. This cautionary tale ends with one kid at Rice and another at Wake Forest.

STOP. Go back to college confidential. You guys don’t belong here. There are hurting parents here and they don’t want to hear your daily tirades against “rich white” which you do over and over. Find another forum. If not I’m reporting you to Jeff who is already frustrated with the invasion of racists on this forum who have no purpose in life other than to Shame parents who want their kids to get into good colleges. Enough!

DP, but the racists here are the ones grumbling that black kids got in while their white and Asian little darlings miscalculated and got shut out.

Ah- there’s quite a bit of anti-white racism on this thread. “All white people are privileged and entitled” is pretty racist.

Anti-white racism? HA!

That's the oxymoron of the century.

Do you think it doesn’t exist? I’m white and was twice refused service in fast food restaurants in southern black neighborhoods. Black people can be racist too.

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Anonymous wrote:I am hearing about these kids who have near perfect grades, super high SAT scores and strong extracurricular activities and they are getting rejected across the board. The parents are well educated professionals. The kids are getting rejected from their parents’ alma maters.

I feel like this same kids would be ivy bound 20-30 years ago.

This is not happening. Stop the fear mongering.

It happened twice in my family: once with a nephew and once with my cousin's daughter.

My cousin's daughter graduated #1 in her class last year. Her SAT was in the high 1400s and ACT was nearly perfect at 35. She took a total of 10 AP courses and scored 5s on 6 and 4s on 4. She had strong extracurriculars including a research biology internship two summers in a row.

Rejected from UVA, which was her first choice, and also rejected from W&M, VA Tech, MIT, Stanford, the Ivies, and Duke. She got waitlisted at FSU, UCLA, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Cal Tech, and Rice. She did get off the waitlist at Rice but she was scrambling while on the waitlist to apply to places with rolling admission. Her counselor was stunned.

My cousin and her husband consulted with a professional college counselor after the fact to see what went wrong in preparation for her younger sister when it was her turn to apply. Basically, she was a dime-a-dozen at places like UVA, the ivies, Duke, MIT, etc. and even with her excellent resume, there was nothing that made her stand out. Schools like FSU and UCLA looked at her incredible stats and grouped her as a "she's applying here as a safety" so they waitlisted.

My nephew had good stats but his downfall was parents who were a bit too out of touch with the college process. He's the youngest and there's a big 12 year age gap. Their next youngest was 30 when my nephew was a senior, so they were going off their experiences and expectations from years prior. Both of their older kids went to their alma mater UNC. They are all donors but not HUGE donors and thought he would get in no problem because compared to his siblings, he was a better student and he was also a two-sport athlete. He got rejected from UNC and all the others. Big gut punch for him. He did community college for 1 year and ended up transferring to Wake Forest.

Hmm. This cautionary tale ends with one kid at Rice and another at Wake Forest.

STOP. Go back to college confidential. You guys don’t belong here. There are hurting parents here and they don’t want to hear your daily tirades against “rich white” which you do over and over. Find another forum. If not I’m reporting you to Jeff who is already frustrated with the invasion of racists on this forum who have no purpose in life other than to Shame parents who want their kids to get into good colleges. Enough!

DP, but the racists here are the ones grumbling that black kids got in while their white and Asian little darlings miscalculated and got shut out.

Ah- there’s quite a bit of anti-white racism on this thread. “All white people are privileged and entitled” is pretty racist.

Anti-white racism? HA!

That's the oxymoron of the century.

Do you think it doesn’t exist? I’m white and was twice refused service in fast food restaurants in southern black neighborhoods. Black people can be racist too.

Probably because you said something racist.

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Anonymous wrote:I am hearing about these kids who have near perfect grades, super high SAT scores and strong extracurricular activities and they are getting rejected across the board. The parents are well educated professionals. The kids are getting rejected from their parents’ alma maters.

I feel like this same kids would be ivy bound 20-30 years ago.

This is not happening. Stop the fear mongering.

It happened twice in my family: once with a nephew and once with my cousin's daughter.

My cousin's daughter graduated #1 in her class last year. Her SAT was in the high 1400s and ACT was nearly perfect at 35. She took a total of 10 AP courses and scored 5s on 6 and 4s on 4. She had strong extracurriculars including a research biology internship two summers in a row.

Rejected from UVA, which was her first choice, and also rejected from W&M, VA Tech, MIT, Stanford, the Ivies, and Duke. She got waitlisted at FSU, UCLA, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Cal Tech, and Rice. She did get off the waitlist at Rice but she was scrambling while on the waitlist to apply to places with rolling admission. Her counselor was stunned.

My cousin and her husband consulted with a professional college counselor after the fact to see what went wrong in preparation for her younger sister when it was her turn to apply. Basically, she was a dime-a-dozen at places like UVA, the ivies, Duke, MIT, etc. and even with her excellent resume, there was nothing that made her stand out. Schools like FSU and UCLA looked at her incredible stats and grouped her as a "she's applying here as a safety" so they waitlisted.

My nephew had good stats but his downfall was parents who were a bit too out of touch with the college process. He's the youngest and there's a big 12 year age gap. Their next youngest was 30 when my nephew was a senior, so they were going off their experiences and expectations from years prior. Both of their older kids went to their alma mater UNC. They are all donors but not HUGE donors and thought he would get in no problem because compared to his siblings, he was a better student and he was also a two-sport athlete. He got rejected from UNC and all the others. Big gut punch for him. He did community college for 1 year and ended up transferring to Wake Forest.

Hmm. This cautionary tale ends with one kid at Rice and another at Wake Forest.

STOP. Go back to college confidential. You guys don’t belong here. There are hurting parents here and they don’t want to hear your daily tirades against “rich white” which you do over and over. Find another forum. If not I’m reporting you to Jeff who is already frustrated with the invasion of racists on this forum who have no purpose in life other than to Shame parents who want their kids to get into good colleges. Enough!

DP, but the racists here are the ones grumbling that black kids got in while their white and Asian little darlings miscalculated and got shut out.

Ah- there’s quite a bit of anti-white racism on this thread. “All white people are privileged and entitled” is pretty racist.

Anti-white racism? HA!

That's the oxymoron of the century.

Do you think it doesn’t exist? I’m white and was twice refused service in fast food restaurants in southern black neighborhoods. Black people can be racist too.

That’s right. Whites are the real victims here.