schools that left a bad taste

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Anonymous wrote:Yale for taking obvious legacies from our school and then issuing a report about how to fix public trust in the process. Also sending out gorgeous booklets to encourage more applications

What is an obvious legacy? They walk around saying their parent attended?

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Anonymous wrote:NYU - will always be a hater after rejection.

Eh, I don’t think that’s the point of this thread, just negative about schools that rejected you.

And it left a bad taste 😂

The tour left a lot to be desired but kid would’ve gone anyway - I was surprised at how lackluster it was and I said it at the time (vs just saying it post decision because my kid didn’t get in). I think that’s pretty common feedback from their tours however.

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Williams, felt very snobbish and cold.

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Anonymous wrote:Yale for taking obvious legacies from our school and then issuing a report about how to fix public trust in the process. Also sending out gorgeous booklets to encourage more applications

What is an obvious legacy? They walk around saying their parent attended?

Taking unqualified kids, so you already know they're legacies before having to look up their parents' LinkedIn profiles.

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Northwestern literally left a bad taste because DC and I tried their dining hall food and it was inedible garbage.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale for taking obvious legacies from our school and then issuing a report about how to fix public trust in the process. Also sending out gorgeous booklets to encourage more applications

What is an obvious legacy? They walk around saying their parent attended?

Taking unqualified kids, so you already know they're legacies before having to look up their parents' LinkedIn profiles.

Wow, I hope people aren’t saying this about my DC who is regular legacy. In general, you don’t know everything about a kid. Mine has the stats and awards and talent but you wouldn’t know that because he doesn’t walk around announcing it to everyone.

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There were a few - all very different schools - but the common denominator was a really bad student tour guide. Can make a big impact.

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Anonymous wrote:+1 for UMD. DH and I are alumni and love the school, but our 4.4gpa/29 ACT/solid ECs kid didn’t even bother applying from her W school because almost no one with less than a 4.8w/1550 SAT gets in from their school and writing all those essays for a near-certain rejection didn’t seem worth her time. About a 30% acceptance rate from the school and only about 20% of the 30% actually go. I wish they would yield protect!

PS: I’m with the PP in wishing there were other strong in-state options. I’m so jealous of my friends in VA, though it sounds like it’s gotten hard for kids from the equivalent of W schools in NOVA to get into JMU and Va. Tech, too.

Not sure if I buy this. Sounds like exaggeration or attempt to make UMD sound more exclusive. There are literally only around 20,000-22,000 test takers who score higher than 1550 in a given year, fewer than total acceptances among just the 8 Ivies alone, not counting other T20 schools like Stanford, MIT, or higher-ranked publics like Michigan. Test score was not the reason that applicant didn't get in, if it was, the math wouldn't make sense for the UMD admissions officer and they do not understand their competition.

I mean, it has become more exclusive in recent years. Denying a ~1550 isn't really a stretch now.

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Anonymous wrote:Yale for taking obvious legacies from our school and then issuing a report about how to fix public trust in the process. Also sending out gorgeous booklets to encourage more applications

I don't know if this is a reading comprehension thing or an issue with critical thinking skills, but how did you miss that the report was compiled by a faculty committee? Universities are a singular entity. The committee was addressing issues in many areas of the university, one being admissions.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale for taking obvious legacies from our school and then issuing a report about how to fix public trust in the process. Also sending out gorgeous booklets to encourage more applications

What is an obvious legacy? They walk around saying their parent attended?

Taking unqualified kids, so you already know they're legacies before having to look up their parents' LinkedIn profiles.

If you're looking up parents linked in profiles of kids you deem are unqualified (who are you to judge?), you need to take a step back from this and find a new hobby.

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Anonymous wrote:Yale for taking obvious legacies from our school and then issuing a report about how to fix public trust in the process. Also sending out gorgeous booklets to encourage more applications

I don't know if this is a reading comprehension thing or an issue with critical thinking skills, but how did you miss that the report was compiled by a faculty committee? Universities are a singular entity. The committee was addressing issues in many areas of the university, one being admissions.

yeah and it's a good thing to self examine and recommend where it can do better.

also all universities send out marketing material.

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Anonymous wrote:Northwestern decided to switch things up this year with our private. Usually they go deep and take down to a 3.6 in ED + admit around 3-4 kids, but this year we got very unlucky. Only 1 admit in ED.

DC's friend was also an emotional trainwreck after seeing the "congratulations" message on their Duke portal, getting excited, and then getting deferred ED. Got in RD but still, it hurt.

they put a congrats on a deferral? that's just....cold. so sorry.

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Anonymous wrote:Cornell has been so incredibly non transparent about class size and answering questions once dd admitted. Also admitted students day showed very little effort. Was underwhelming to say the least. I guess they are comfortable with their yeild.

This was very apparent on the tour. Negative effort

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYU - will always be a hater after rejection.

Eh, I don’t think that’s the point of this thread, just negative about schools that rejected you.

And it left a bad taste 😂

The tour left a lot to be desired but kid would’ve gone anyway - I was surprised at how lackluster it was and I said it at the time (vs just saying it post decision because my kid didn’t get in). I think that’s pretty common feedback from their tours however.

Sorry to hear about the rejection. Hope your kid flourishes at the school they selected.

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Anonymous wrote:+1 for UMD. DH and I are alumni and love the school, but our 4.4gpa/29 ACT/solid ECs kid didn’t even bother applying from her W school because almost no one with less than a 4.8w/1550 SAT gets in from their school and writing all those essays for a near-certain rejection didn’t seem worth her time. About a 30% acceptance rate from the school and only about 20% of the 30% actually go. I wish they would yield protect!

PS: I’m with the PP in wishing there were other strong in-state options. I’m so jealous of my friends in VA, though it sounds like it’s gotten hard for kids from the equivalent of W schools in NOVA to get into JMU and Va. Tech, too.

Not sure if I buy this. Sounds like exaggeration or attempt to make UMD sound more exclusive. There are literally only around 20,000-22,000 test takers who score higher than 1550 in a given year, fewer than total acceptances among just the 8 Ivies alone, not counting other T20 schools like Stanford, MIT, or higher-ranked publics like Michigan. Test score was not the reason that applicant didn't get in, if it was, the math wouldn't make sense for the UMD admissions officer and they do not understand their competition.

I mean, it has become more exclusive in recent years. Denying a ~1550 isn't really a stretch now.

UMD hasn't necessarily become more exclusive, but they clearly apply different thresholds to different in-state high schools. A 1550 from any big MoCo HS just gets you in the "we will look at your EC's and then decide" pile. But from other high schools it's a straight path to admission and a scholarship.