Big 3 Nightmare
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Yes, my own kid had a 1200/3.5UW and got into 7 schools in the 50-100 and another 3 in the 100-140. They even got merit at almost all of those schools, and we were not even searching for merit. |
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No hood boarding schools in Maine (New Hampshire does of course) |
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DP: It's not as if every kid is applying to every school on the list. You take a shot at a few top schools, and a sprinkling of schools in other ranges down the line, as she clearly did, and you hope someone bites. Those mid range schools didn't work out -- she wasn't rejected from all of the schools between 30 and 200 -- no one can apply to all of them and it isn't a forced rank system. It's all a gamble. |
Anonymous
Boarding school does not give you a “rural student” bump. Neither would going to the “best” public school in Portland Maine. |
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Boarding school is $$$$$$ |
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| I’d just like to say “well played” to whoever is running the HA IG account today. I tip my hat to you, and to all the graduates. |
Anonymous
I am not on insta - can you explain? Is it really good April Fools jokes, I hope. 
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The niece only applied to 2 outside the T30 it seems. That's the problem. You can't have only 2 "targets" and no safeties. In fact, we don't even know if those were true targets---Acceptance rates higher than 25%. Niece may have applied to all Reaches and that is where the issue is. You do that, you run the risk of disappointment come March. Kids need to learn to apply to 3-4 true targets and 3-4 true safeties/likelies. Not just 10-12 hard reaches. 5 years ago that was not a good idea, and it certainly is not a good idea now. Those of us who have a balanced list for our kids tend to do better. My kid got into all their targets and safeties. Only got denied/WL/Go abroad freshman year at their 4 reaches and even then only outright denied at 1 school (WL/go abroad at the other 3). Nothing special, just a well curated list of true targets and safeties, including schools they would be thrilled to attend. SO much that my kid had their top safety on the final list of 3 schools and revisited them in April. Only ditched that school for real reasons---a 7 week quarter system that might not be the best environment for someone who is a chronic procrastinator. otherwise they were seriously considering turning down 2 T30 schools and going to their safety. |
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Us, too. DC got decent merit aid at all of the schools that accepted him. I was surprised and pleased. |
Anonymous
I'm the PP with a niece. If she wasn't so disappointed in her options, your confidence that I/we are trolls would be funny. Remember this is a thread about Sidwell, STA/NCS, GDS. We are lamenting that these schools maybe aren't having the results that they expect. It sounds like the PPs calling me a liar don't have kids there. Today I'm working with niece to write an I Love You letter to my alma mater where she was waitlisted. Here is her complete list and outcomes. The bolded are accepts, everything else is reject/wl. I also added USNWR rankings. Recall niece is top 20% of class, highest math-science, beautiful ECs, white non-VIP. The original point of my post is that the results below don't resemble the sort of results a kid like this could expect a decade ago. My own kids did "better" coming from the same school a few years ago pre-pandemic. OK, I'll bite. Here are some of the schools that said "Nope!" to my niece who attends either Sidwell or NCS: UCSB (32). UCSD (34) . Wash U (15). Barnard (18th LAC). BU (41) Davidson (15th LAC) . UVA (25) flagship state school (50s) a private university (40s) regional university (not even nationally ranked) an LAC (30s of all LACs) a private university (20s) a private university (60s) |
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** full pay, SAT submitted 1500. |
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Look back at the holton page around May1- there were a bunch of Ivy regular admits that are not yet on the page.. Anyway- Sidwell page looks pretty good! |
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| To be clear on the niece, she is a full pay white female with 1500 and a strong transcript with strong ECs? And her only acceptances are 30s ranked LAC and 40s ranked university? |
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^ or rather those are her best acceptances? |
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Oh I believe you are not a troll. So the rejections appears to all be "Reach" schools with acceptance rates in single digits or less than 20% (except the State flagship in 50s, might be a high target, depends upon the school. That makes them reaches for EVERYONE. It doesn't matter that she went to a Big 3, unless she has a major hook. Applying to multiple does not statistically increase your chances of acceptance. Majority of kids applying to these schools are "qualified" and would make excellent candidates, but there just is NOT space. So 80-95% are rejected. Yes, this is different than 10 years ago, but not that different and definately not very different than the last 2-3 years. And she got in at her majority of her targets and the obvious Safety/likely (non ranked school). And one of her targets was Brandeis, CWRU, Northeastern or Tulane---any of those are excellent schools (I'm guessing Brandeis or CwRU since Tulane is difficult to get non-ED and NEU is just ridiculously low acceptance rates with almost 100K applications). She's also in at either WPI, Syracuse or GWU for the Private in the 60s. Once again, all excellent schools. She has 4 acceptances, two are in the T40-70 schools. Congratulations! Time to get excited about why you put those schools on your list in the first place Welcome to the real world, where the T25 and really T50 schools are a crap shoot, and they are a crap shoot for EVERYONE that is not "hooked". Your niece has some excellent acceptances, she just needs to recall why she put those schools on her college list. Yes, those schools are not having the results they expected---you expected if you have high sat and gpa from an elite school it guarantees you admission to a T25 school and that's just not the case and hasn't been for years. |