If your high-scorer didn't get in anywhere: where are they now?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1540 SAT. Applied EA and attending Northeastern.

BTW, CS and Design combined major. DC is intelligent and artistic.
The school was a great fit, and Northeastern excels at selecting students who are a good fit, resulting in a high retention rate.

Ummm.
Northeastern chases SAT scores like it's crack.
It's not looking for fit, it's trying to elevate its prestige through higher average SAT scores.
It is a good safety school for a well statted out kid.
Only about a third of Northeastern admits submit an SAT score.
Another 1/9th submitted an ACT score.
The upside is that you are going to be going to school with other driven talented students that lost the admissions lottery.

It chases high SAT with NMF…so do Emory and Vanderbilt. Marketing ploy. My own NMF kid was not interested.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:people. That post is a joke.

The stats or the part about their kid being a loser.

All of it.

Mean. No worries. One day it will come back at you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1540 SAT. Applied EA and attending Northeastern.

BTW, CS and Design combined major. DC is intelligent and artistic.
The school was a great fit, and Northeastern excels at selecting students who are a good fit, resulting in a high retention rate.

Ummm.
Northeastern chases SAT scores like it's crack.
It's not looking for fit, it's trying to elevate its prestige through higher average SAT scores.
It is a good safety school for a well statted out kid.
Only about a third of Northeastern admits submit an SAT score.
Another 1/9th submitted an ACT score.
The upside is that you are going to be going to school with other driven talented students that lost the admissions lottery.

Disagree - it's not a safety for anyone.
Disagree - Northeastern looks for fit, in other words, students who are happy to attend and stay.
It's evidenced in the retention rate - https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return

Agree - they mostly like high stat kids.
Strongly agree - "The upside is that you are going to be going to school with other driven talented students that lost the admissions lottery".

Retention rates are like graduation rates. It's high for everyone.
Northeastern is absolutely a safety for anyone with good stats.
A safety school is a school where your chances of admission are higher than 60 or 70%
High statted kids have a really high acceptance rate. It is absolutely a safety for a kid with a 1520 SAT and an unweighted 3.6 or higher.

If your argument for why a school is good revolves around freshman retention rates, your school isn't that good.
Northeastern is need aware in admissions.
The majority of the students are not submitting test scores.
That means you are probably talking about a lot of rich kids with low test scores that can afford to pay full freight and a lot of well testing poor kids that cannot.

This is how colleges crawl up the ranks. They provide a good deal for smart poor kids and let in less smart rich kids.
Heck Harvard does the exact same thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1540 SAT. Applied EA and attending Northeastern.

BTW, CS and Design combined major. DC is intelligent and artistic.
The school was a great fit, and Northeastern excels at selecting students who are a good fit, resulting in a high retention rate.

Ummm.
Northeastern chases SAT scores like it's crack.
It's not looking for fit, it's trying to elevate its prestige through higher average SAT scores.
It is a good safety school for a well statted out kid.
Only about a third of Northeastern admits submit an SAT score.
Another 1/9th submitted an ACT score.
The upside is that you are going to be going to school with other driven talented students that lost the admissions lottery.

It chases high SAT with NMF…so do Emory and Vanderbilt. Marketing ploy. My own NMF kid was not interested.

Pretty much all the school in that tier do this. Schools like USC and NYU were doing this to crawl up the prestige hierachy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:people. That post is a joke.

The stats or the part about their kid being a loser.

All of it.

Mean. No worries. One day it will come back at you.

Not mean, the guy talking about his 1580 SAT with a 4.6 GPA kid not getting into any school and now working at taco bell and getting high is full of shit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1540 SAT. Applied EA and attending Northeastern.

BTW, CS and Design combined major. DC is intelligent and artistic.
The school was a great fit, and Northeastern excels at selecting students who are a good fit, resulting in a high retention rate.

Ummm.
Northeastern chases SAT scores like it's crack.
It's not looking for fit, it's trying to elevate its prestige through higher average SAT scores.
It is a good safety school for a well statted out kid.
Only about a third of Northeastern admits submit an SAT score.
Another 1/9th submitted an ACT score.
The upside is that you are going to be going to school with other driven talented students that lost the admissions lottery.

It chases high SAT with NMF…so do Emory and Vanderbilt. Marketing ploy. My own NMF kid was not interested.

I would assume most schools want high stat kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did they go to a safety? Which safety? Did they stay? Did they take a gap year?

Only Fans

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1540 SAT. Applied EA and attending Northeastern.

BTW, CS and Design combined major. DC is intelligent and artistic.
The school was a great fit, and Northeastern excels at selecting students who are a good fit, resulting in a high retention rate.

Ummm.
Northeastern chases SAT scores like it's crack.
It's not looking for fit, it's trying to elevate its prestige through higher average SAT scores.
It is a good safety school for a well statted out kid.
Only about a third of Northeastern admits submit an SAT score.
Another 1/9th submitted an ACT score.
The upside is that you are going to be going to school with other driven talented students that lost the admissions lottery.

It chases high SAT with NMF…so do Emory and Vanderbilt. Marketing ploy. My own NMF kid was not interested.

Pretty much all the school in that tier do this. Schools like USC and NYU were doing this to crawl up the prestige hierachy

From what I can determine for most recent CDS, the following freshman class % that received non-need aid:
Emory-17%
Vanderbilt-14%
NEU-26%
NYU-4%
USC-59% (based on another thread, this number will be dropping substantially)

https://provost.emory.edu/planning-administration/data/common-data-set.html
https://www.vanderbilt.edu/dsa/common-data-set/
https://uds.northeastern.edu/facts/common-data-set/
https://www.nyu.edu/employees/resources-and-services/administrative-services/institutional-research/self-service-reporting-resources/factbook.html
https://oir.usc.edu/statistics-data-visualization/common-data-set/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1540 SAT. Applied EA and attending Northeastern.

BTW, CS and Design combined major. DC is intelligent and artistic.
The school was a great fit, and Northeastern excels at selecting students who are a good fit, resulting in a high retention rate.

Ummm.
Northeastern chases SAT scores like it's crack.
It's not looking for fit, it's trying to elevate its prestige through higher average SAT scores.
It is a good safety school for a well statted out kid.
Only about a third of Northeastern admits submit an SAT score.
Another 1/9th submitted an ACT score.
The upside is that you are going to be going to school with other driven talented students that lost the admissions lottery.

It chases high SAT with NMF…so do Emory and Vanderbilt. Marketing ploy. My own NMF kid was not interested.

I would assume most schools want high stat kids.

Missing the point.

[Anonymous]

Working in IT

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did they go to a safety? Which safety? Did they stay? Did they take a gap year?

How would be at a safety if they didn’t get in anywhere?

My 1580 SAT, 4.6 GPA was completely shut out last year. Spent about six months on the couch smoking weed and playing video games. He gained about 40 pounds. I finally told him to get a job so he works at the Taco Bell. This year he got into JMU but he only wants to take a couple of classes at the community college so he has more time for weed, video games and Taco Bell. He says he doesn’t know why we made him work so hard in high school and prefers his new lifestyle.

Post from a HS kid on break.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did they go to a safety? Which safety? Did they stay? Did they take a gap year?

1560 uva in state. WL or rejected every other T25. Asian male. Loves uva!! 2023 was the hardest graduation year for our high school for anyone without hooks

Wow!! This process sounds terrifying.

PP, I am glad your child is happy at UVA and with those stats, it truly the other schools' loss!

Only the SAT was referenced. Nothing else.

One can't deduce much from one data point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did they go to a safety? Which safety? Did they stay? Did they take a gap year?

How would be at a safety if they didn’t get in anywhere?

My 1580 SAT, 4.6 GPA was completely shut out last year. Spent about six months on the couch smoking weed and playing video games. He gained about 40 pounds. I finally told him to get a job so he works at the Taco Bell. This year he got into JMU but he only wants to take a couple of classes at the community college so he has more time for weed, video games and Taco Bell. He says he doesn’t know why we made him work so hard in high school and prefers his new lifestyle.

Post from a HS kid on break.

lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1540 SAT. Applied EA and attending Northeastern.

BTW, CS and Design combined major. DC is intelligent and artistic.
The school was a great fit, and Northeastern excels at selecting students who are a good fit, resulting in a high retention rate.

Ummm.
Northeastern chases SAT scores like it's crack.
It's not looking for fit, it's trying to elevate its prestige through higher average SAT scores.
It is a good safety school for a well statted out kid.
Only about a third of Northeastern admits submit an SAT score.
Another 1/9th submitted an ACT score.
The upside is that you are going to be going to school with other driven talented students that lost the admissions lottery.

It chases high SAT with NMF…so do Emory and Vanderbilt. Marketing ploy. My own NMF kid was not interested.

Pretty much all the school in that tier do this. Schools like USC and NYU were doing this to crawl up the prestige hierachy

From what I can determine for most recent CDS, the following freshman class % that received non-need aid:
Emory-17%
Vanderbilt-14%
NEU-26%
NYU-4%
USC-59% (based on another thread, this number will be dropping substantially)

https://provost.emory.edu/planning-administration/data/common-data-set.html
https://www.vanderbilt.edu/dsa/common-data-set/
https://uds.northeastern.edu/facts/common-data-set/
https://www.nyu.edu/employees/resources-and-services/administrative-services/institutional-research/self-service-reporting-resources/factbook.html
https://oir.usc.edu/statistics-data-visualization/common-data-set/

NYU stopped doing it and USC will soon stop doing it. Buying stats starts to become less effective at some point

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did they go to a safety? Which safety? Did they stay? Did they take a gap year?

1560 uva in state. WL or rejected every other T25. Asian male. Loves uva!! 2023 was the hardest graduation year for our high school for anyone without hooks

Wow!! This process sounds terrifying.

PP, I am glad your child is happy at UVA and with those stats, it truly the other schools' loss!

Only the SAT was referenced. Nothing else.

One can't deduce much from one data point.

If you only knew one thing about an applicant, that is the one thing you would want to know.