Which colleges are the B students going to from the top independent schools?
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Anonymous
| Trinity, Reed, Sewanee, Wake, Macalester, Washington and Lee, UT |
Anonymous
Take Macalester and Washington and Lee off the list (and maybe UT Austin) and I agree. |
Anonymous
| Off the list in which direction? I've seen plenty of B/C students from our school get into those schools. |
Anonymous
| Generally, I think this list is geared towards boys more than girls. Our college counselor told us in no uncertain terms that there are many more "highly qualified" girls than boys to choose from. As a result, boys with good test scores, compelling essays and upward trending grades tend to have a better chance gaining admission to reach schools than girls. It is a numbers game, of course - but seems the numbers are stacked in favor of the late-bloomer boys. |
Anonymous
That is an excellent point. |
Anonymous
| That is exactly what our college counselor told us. DDs are penalized; DS's have a much better chance. |
Anonymous
| I'd agree with that. I think many colleges treat B/C boys like B girls. |
Anonymous
In the arts it is true. The apps are like 4 to 1 girl/boys. |
Anonymous
It's the converse in STEM fields; girls will have a lot of doors open to them, compared to boys with similar grades. |
Anonymous
Maybe a troll,but I've heard some GDS parents talk like that. |
Anonymous
+1. Kenyon seems to have become quite selective in recent years. |
Anonymous
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Not from DC but am familiar with the private schools in the Northeast.
B students attend Tufts, NYU, BC, Wellesley, UMich, UNC, etc. C students attend all sorts of different schools like BU, University of Colorado, SMU, etc. |
Anonymous
| Times have changed. Once upon a time, Cornell and Penn were the "safety" schools for those who wanted to go to an Ivy League college! |
Anonymous
| Boston U, SMU, Tulane, Vermont, Indiana, Rhodes, Conn college, Colorado college, Texas, U. C Santa Barbara |
Anonymous
If you seriously believe this is true (maybe this is the GDS troll), then you have no clue about public schools. Read The Overachievers about Walt Whitman for a description of what life is like among competitive kids at the top area public high schools. Or talk to any magnet or IB student. Yes, of course there is a tier of publifc school kids who are getting Cs in their non-honors classes, but these are the kids who aren't planning on college--and these are not the kids your child would be taking classes with, if you're one of those people. Public school kids who are headed to elite colleges generally take 7+ AP classes, often they take 8-9 AP classes. Then they send their multiple scores of 5 into the elite colleges during the admissions process (i.e. they don't wait until after admissions to use the AP score to get out of required courses; in fact, the most selective colleges usually don't let you use APs to get out of coursework anyway). The reason kids send in their AP scores during admissions is that the AP score of 5 demonstrates that your grade of "A" in the AP class was earned during rigorous coursework. By comparison, at most DC-area private schools the average is more like 3-4 AP classes. This is NOT to say that private high school non-AP classes are necessarily less rigorous than public school AP classes. It's also not to say that APs are ideal (that's another discussion). So please don't deliberately misinterpret me. The point here is, you're fooling yourself if you think that public school classes taken by the top public school kids are less rigorous than private school classes. The colleges appreciate this (viz. their interest in AP scores of 5) and they definitely take it into account during admissions. Signed, parent of public and private school kids |