After all the drama, Big3 college admissions are really as strong as ever this year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gds year didn’t look that great

I think GDS is the only school in its peer group to still impose a 10-school cap.

Is this correct? GDS has a cap on the applications students can submit?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you think Asian Americans don’t have hooks? There are lots of Asian American legacies, first gen, and athletes, and some donor class kids and faculty kids. If admissions were based on grades and test scores, the schools wouldn’t just admit more Asian American students, they would admit different Asian American students.

So tell the profile of a so-called unhooked student getting admitted to HYPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do you think Asian Americans don’t have hooks? There are lots of Asian American legacies, first gen, and athletes, and some donor class kids and faculty kids. If admissions were based on grades and test scores, the schools wouldn’t just admit more Asian American students, they would admit different Asian American students.

So tell the profile of a so-called unhooked student getting admitted to HYPS.

Trick question. Only hooked students are admitted to HYPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do you think Asian Americans don’t have hooks? There are lots of Asian American legacies, first gen, and athletes, and some donor class kids and faculty kids. If admissions were based on grades and test scores, the schools wouldn’t just admit more Asian American students, they would admit different Asian American students.

So tell the profile of a so-called unhooked student getting admitted to HYPS.

Trick question. Only hooked students are admitted to HYPS.

True at our school this year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is at NCS.
From what I can tell:
20% Ivies
10% U of Chicago
10% other top 20 universities
10% top 10 liberal arts colleges
Etc.
That is 50% of the class into TOP20 colleges/universities. Minimum.

Even with the deflated GPAs (well under 4.0), almost no APs, etc.

STA is similar.
Sidwell has pretty much gotten the entire class in top50 schools.
GDS is a bit uneven.

How exactly are the grades "deflated"? Public schools might inflate grades, but that doesn't mean independent ones deflate them.

Are you new here? Most of the more academics rigorous private schools here pride themselves on giving out significantly less As than area public’s.

What school prides itself on "giving" students FEWER As? Methinks this is a bit of projection on your part. The point remains: it's the grade inflation at public high schools that is the problem.

You are wrong. The private high schools schools have grade inflation much higher than public schools. It’s been documented over and over. Even if they didn’t inflate their grades, which they do, the obsessive parent will have their average kid tutored until he does average work for that school which will be an A. How naive to think high priced schools that are businesses would be allowed to give a student a C when their parents just donated a field.

[Anonymous]

You are wrong. The private high schools schools have grade inflation much higher than public schools. It’s been documented over and over. Even if they didn’t inflate their grades, which they do, the obsessive parent will have their average kid tutored until he does average work for that school which will be an A. How naive to think high priced schools that are businesses would be allowed to give a student a C when their parents just donated a field.

You have won the dumbest post award on this thread! Can you please post anything that states private schools are "inflating grades"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is at NCS.
From what I can tell:
20% Ivies
10% U of Chicago
10% other top 20 universities
10% top 10 liberal arts colleges
Etc.
That is 50% of the class into TOP20 colleges/universities. Minimum.

Even with the deflated GPAs (well under 4.0), almost no APs, etc.

STA is similar.
Sidwell has pretty much gotten the entire class in top50 schools.
GDS is a bit uneven.

How exactly are the grades "deflated"? Public schools might inflate grades, but that doesn't mean independent ones deflate them.

Are you new here? Most of the more academics rigorous private schools here pride themselves on giving out significantly less As than area public’s.

What school prides itself on "giving" students FEWER As? Methinks this is a bit of projection on your part. The point remains: it's the grade inflation at public high schools that is the problem.

You are wrong. The private high schools schools have grade inflation much higher than public schools. It’s been documented over and over. Even if they didn’t inflate their grades, which they do, the obsessive parent will have their average kid tutored until he does average work for that school which will be an A. How naive to think high priced schools that are businesses would be allowed to give a student a C when their parents just donated a field.

Sidwell is notorious for grade deflation. I don't know what Privates you are referring to but it is there, and also not STA or NCS.

[Anonymous]

It’s perfectly possible for a private school to deflate in general and provide targeted inflation for donor kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maret is cleaning up this year, and did well last year. Someone in the admissions office deserves a raise.

They did well the year before last too (2021)

Oxford
Yale
MIT
Stanford
Cornell
Harvard (2)
Chicago
Michigan
Pomona
Brown (2)
Williams
Dartmouth
Georgetown
+more top LACs

https://instagram.com/maretfrogs2021?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maret is cleaning up this year, and did well last year. Someone in the admissions office deserves a raise.

They did well the year before last too (2021)

Oxford
Yale
MIT
Stanford
Cornell
Harvard (2)
Chicago
Michigan
Pomona
Brown (2)
Williams
Dartmouth
Georgetown
+more top LACs

https://instagram.com/maretfrogs2021?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

I think Sidwell did a little better. I know they’re sending more students to Ivies (plus one to MIT).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s perfectly possible for a private school to deflate in general and provide targeted inflation for donor kids.

Could you explain this? How did they do this? I think this might be true.

[Anonymous]

Yup. And Jackson Reed is free and has had incredible outcomes this year. The same amount of hooked and unhooked and the majority of kids don't post. I wish they would!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s perfectly possible for a private school to deflate in general and provide targeted inflation for donor kids.

Could you explain this? How did they do this? I think this might be true.

I'm not PP but one way this can happen (not via teacher grading) is for some families to know which courses to take that will best support high GPA. For example, if you know you have a hook, you may not need to take the most rigorous courses - easier courseload leads to higher GPA. The hard part of this equation, though, is it doesn't apply for a non-hooked kid. They take harder courseload and have a high GPA (with maybe a few extra A- vs A) but are shut out of T20. But they can't assume they'd do better in T20 if they took the easier courseload with a 4.0 outcome - because they probably would not. Suppose they were accepted to a T40 with the higher courseload - that may not have happened if they took the easier route.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trick question. Only hooked students are admitted to HYPS.

Then what explains all the posts denigrating a private school's admits as being based on hooks? If everyone (both public and private) gets in due to some kind of hook, then why are private school admits being targeted specifically?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trick question. Only hooked students are admitted to HYPS.

Then what explains all the posts denigrating a private school's admits as being based on hooks? If everyone (both public and private) gets in due to some kind of hook, then why are private school admits being targeted specifically?

Only the private schools publish the college list in their marketing material and charge $50,000 a year.