NCS college admissions if kid is not a legacy, URM, or athletic recruit

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Just ask AdCom at NCS. If they want to lie to your face, so be it.

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I'm almost 100% sure that OP, or at least many of the responses are troll(s) and are in fact high schoolers that don't even attend NCS.
I know because I think one is a kid I know from next door---she/he and a group of friends were all laughing about it recently and it was either this post or the same
one about Sidwell (also complaining about admissions) because it was definitely about college admissions from "another school". I asked my own kid (lower grade, different school) and they said that the kids will sometimes read about their school on here but don't know about anyone posting.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm almost 100% sure that OP, or at least many of the responses are troll(s) and are in fact high schoolers that don't even attend NCS.
I know because I think one is a kid I know from next door---she/he and a group of friends were all laughing about it recently and it was either this post or the same
one about Sidwell (also complaining about admissions) because it was definitely about college admissions from "another school". I asked my own kid (lower grade, different school) and they said that the kids will sometimes read about their school on here but don't know about anyone posting.

I agree. I think the 4 early decision to Columbia set off major jealousy bells.

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The list of schools is very impressive no matter how you qualify it.
The OP has over stepped the mark posting about these girls on this forum and actually I don’t think an NCS parent would do that. Certainly not any that I know.
This obsession about where other kids go to college is very unhealthy for everyone.
I agree with the other posters that is is borderline stalking.
There is not a school on that list that is not a good school despite what OP’s narrow view of the world projects.

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Anonymous wrote:The other adjustment needed is the idea that there is something special or essential about the rankings in USNWR.

Until people accept that hundreds of colleges have stellar students getting a stellar eduction from stellar professors and going on to have stellar careers, this anxiety producing nonsense about only 10-20 colleges being acceptable for strong students will not end.

If your top student is attending a school ranked 60, that school has a fantastic student who will go on to do great things -- likely better things than a hundred kids from Harvard. The workforce makes this obvious; look around you. On top of that, that top-ranked kid from your school might not even be the top student at that 60th ranked college. Yours isn't the only super bright kid attending those schools ranked in the 40-120 range. Do you really think there aren't any geniuses at 117-ranked RIT? There are.

T20 is probably a target that should go away, but there are not hundreds of stellar colleges. To take your "hundreds" literally, Ball State is 202 and Bellarmin University is 203 according to US news (there is a multiway tie for 196). Do you think any NCS student or parent sending their kid to NCS would think those are stellar schools?

You are forgetting the excellent options at small liberal arts and regional colleges, plus colleges abroad. I stand by hundreds of options.

It's not hundreds. It's actually about a hundred and that's being generious. Top 50 Universities, top 50 LACs. That's about it. I crack up when come on here talking about the thousands of colleges. If you come from a private in the DC area, that's just not true. It's hundreds of students competing for a small handful of the same schools. I will be disappointed if my kid winds up at College of Charleston or Elon, which unfortunately is what her counselor is going to recommend as matches (safe matches, but not even safeties). After attending a competitive school with bright, hardworking girls, can you imagine surrounding yourself with those who attend College of Charleston or Elon? It's a whole different world and would be a disappointment. There's no way that many of those girls are extremely disappointed.

Yes. The NCS college counselor recommend College of Charleston and Elon for my DD. 3.2 GPA and 34 ACT.

Would your daughter consider a university in England or elsewhere? Obviously not Oxford, but somewhere exciting and stimulating in another country? That might be a good option. (I don't say this to be nasty, but are there many girls with this sort of overall GPA, getting almost all B's?) When did your daughter start at NCS? Just Upper School or has she been there the whole time? I am really asking this in a positive spirit and don't mean any offense at all. Very curious as my DD will be starting this fall for 9th.

Curious as well. Seems like a big disconnect unless there is ADHD at play and test stakes were high and a hyperfocus.

You must be unfamiliar with NCS and obvilious to the rest of this thread. A 3.2 at NCS is not a cakewalk. It requires hard work. There is no disconnect. Just an average kid doing well at a tough school. That 3.2 is like a 4.5 at your local public.

I get it. Thanks for the info. Lots of ways to skin a cat here, not just the Overworked, Grade Deflation school way. Enjoy.

The above PP doesn't make sense to me. You say that the example is just an average kid at a tough school, and then equate a 3.2 with a 4.5, but an "average" kid doesn't get a 4.5 at any school... also, you are comparing a non weighted GPA with a weighted one...

Right, that's the point. Public school weight, NCS doesn't. So you have to compare them. And yes, the average kid does get a 4.5 at public schools. Maybe that's a bit exaggerated, but a 4.0 is definitely not 10% of th class at public school.

But colleges look at the unweighted GPAs of pubic high school students as well as private school students, and they recalibrate the GPAs of all applicants using their own individual systems. So if a kid got a 4.5 W GPA in public that could easily be a 3.5ish UW (if they got Bs in lots of AP classes) So I think you are wrong about the "average" student having this GPA. First off, "average" students don't sign up for the hardest classes at any school, public or private, and I think that the difference between these GPAs gets smaller when you take this into account. If you are applying to UCs or Michigan,etc where they get so many applicants they can't manage a personalized approach then you are at a disadvantage, but at smaller schools the personalized rec letters that show the teachers actually knows these students would help NCS girls, in comparison to most public school students, even way above average ones who get form type rec letters.

No, they just don't...

Maybe College Admissions officers- many of whom are early 30 somethings- just do as they are told and go along to get along... which in 2021- 2022 Admissions years means: Admit URM's , throw out the SAT scores and Amp Up the DII initiatives

And, cash the checks of parents who will Donate $$$$ to try to " ensure a spot for their kid" in that crock of a system

The Solution:

1) maybe lobby for federal funded 4 year college so that schools get subsidized and can step off of this USNWW PR rat race
2) Get new NCS Admin to end the grade deflation at NCS- waaaay too many decades setting a Masters level Bar for 14, 15 year old girls and getting away with it just because their parents are high achievers with high expectations who are addicted to striving
3) assert ALL manner of political and financial pressure to bear to bring back mandatory SAT/ACT for All college applications

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Anonymous wrote:The other adjustment needed is the idea that there is something special or essential about the rankings in USNWR.

Until people accept that hundreds of colleges have stellar students getting a stellar eduction from stellar professors and going on to have stellar careers, this anxiety producing nonsense about only 10-20 colleges being acceptable for strong students will not end.

If your top student is attending a school ranked 60, that school has a fantastic student who will go on to do great things -- likely better things than a hundred kids from Harvard. The workforce makes this obvious; look around you. On top of that, that top-ranked kid from your school might not even be the top student at that 60th ranked college. Yours isn't the only super bright kid attending those schools ranked in the 40-120 range. Do you really think there aren't any geniuses at 117-ranked RIT? There are.

T20 is probably a target that should go away, but there are not hundreds of stellar colleges. To take your "hundreds" literally, Ball State is 202 and Bellarmin University is 203 according to US news (there is a multiway tie for 196). Do you think any NCS student or parent sending their kid to NCS would think those are stellar schools?

You are forgetting the excellent options at small liberal arts and regional colleges, plus colleges abroad. I stand by hundreds of options.

It's not hundreds. It's actually about a hundred and that's being generious. Top 50 Universities, top 50 LACs. That's about it. I crack up when come on here talking about the thousands of colleges. If you come from a private in the DC area, that's just not true. It's hundreds of students competing for a small handful of the same schools. I will be disappointed if my kid winds up at College of Charleston or Elon, which unfortunately is what her counselor is going to recommend as matches (safe matches, but not even safeties). After attending a competitive school with bright, hardworking girls, can you imagine surrounding yourself with those who attend College of Charleston or Elon? It's a whole different world and would be a disappointment. There's no way that many of those girls are extremely disappointed.

Yes. The NCS college counselor recommend College of Charleston and Elon for my DD. 3.2 GPA and 34 ACT.

THIS.

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Anonymous wrote:The other adjustment needed is the idea that there is something special or essential about the rankings in USNWR.

Until people accept that hundreds of colleges have stellar students getting a stellar eduction from stellar professors and going on to have stellar careers, this anxiety producing nonsense about only 10-20 colleges being acceptable for strong students will not end.

If your top student is attending a school ranked 60, that school has a fantastic student who will go on to do great things -- likely better things than a hundred kids from Harvard. The workforce makes this obvious; look around you. On top of that, that top-ranked kid from your school might not even be the top student at that 60th ranked college. Yours isn't the only super bright kid attending those schools ranked in the 40-120 range. Do you really think there aren't any geniuses at 117-ranked RIT? There are.

T20 is probably a target that should go away, but there are not hundreds of stellar colleges. To take your "hundreds" literally, Ball State is 202 and Bellarmin University is 203 according to US news (there is a multiway tie for 196). Do you think any NCS student or parent sending their kid to NCS would think those are stellar schools?

You are forgetting the excellent options at small liberal arts and regional colleges, plus colleges abroad. I stand by hundreds of options.

It's not hundreds. It's actually about a hundred and that's being generious. Top 50 Universities, top 50 LACs. That's about it. I crack up when come on here talking about the thousands of colleges. If you come from a private in the DC area, that's just not true. It's hundreds of students competing for a small handful of the same schools. I will be disappointed if my kid winds up at College of Charleston or Elon, which unfortunately is what her counselor is going to recommend as matches (safe matches, but not even safeties). After attending a competitive school with bright, hardworking girls, can you imagine surrounding yourself with those who attend College of Charleston or Elon? It's a whole different world and would be a disappointment. There's no way that many of those girls are extremely disappointed.

Yes. The NCS college counselor recommend College of Charleston and Elon for my DD. 3.2 GPA and 34 ACT.

Would your daughter consider a university in England or elsewhere? Obviously not Oxford, but somewhere exciting and stimulating in another country? That might be a good option. (I don't say this to be nasty, but are there many girls with this sort of overall GPA, getting almost all B's?) When did your daughter start at NCS? Just Upper School or has she been there the whole time? I am really asking this in a positive spirit and don't mean any offense at all. Very curious as my DD will be starting this fall for 9th.

Curious as well. Seems like a big disconnect unless there is ADHD at play and test stakes were high and a hyperfocus.

You must be unfamiliar with NCS and obvilious to the rest of this thread. A 3.2 at NCS is not a cakewalk. It requires hard work. There is no disconnect. Just an average kid doing well at a tough school. That 3.2 is like a 4.5 at your local public.

I get it. Thanks for the info. Lots of ways to skin a cat here, not just the Overworked, Grade Deflation school way. Enjoy.

The above PP doesn't make sense to me. You say that the example is just an average kid at a tough school, and then equate a 3.2 with a 4.5, but an "average" kid doesn't get a 4.5 at any school... also, you are comparing a non weighted GPA with a weighted one...

Right, that's the point. Public school weight, NCS doesn't. So you have to compare them. And yes, the average kid does get a 4.5 at public schools. Maybe that's a bit exaggerated, but a 4.0 is definitely not 10% of th class at public school.

But colleges look at the unweighted GPAs of pubic high school students as well as private school students, and they recalibrate the GPAs of all applicants using their own individual systems. So if a kid got a 4.5 W GPA in public that could easily be a 3.5ish UW (if they got Bs in lots of AP classes) So I think you are wrong about the "average" student having this GPA. First off, "average" students don't sign up for the hardest classes at any school, public or private, and I think that the difference between these GPAs gets smaller when you take this into account. If you are applying to UCs or Michigan,etc where they get so many applicants they can't manage a personalized approach then you are at a disadvantage, but at smaller schools the personalized rec letters that show the teachers actually knows these students would help NCS girls, in comparison to most public school students, even way above average ones who get form type rec letters.

No, they just don't...

Maybe College Admissions officers- many of whom are early 30 somethings- just do as they are told and go along to get along... which in 2021- 2022 Admissions years means: Admit URM's , throw out the SAT scores and Amp Up the DII initiatives

And, cash the checks of parents who will Donate $$$$ to try to " ensure a spot for their kid" in that crock of a system

The Solution:

1) maybe lobby for federal funded 4 year college so that schools get subsidized and can step off of this USNWW PR rat race
2) Get new NCS Admin to end the grade deflation at NCS- waaaay too many decades setting a Masters level Bar for 14, 15 year old girls and getting away with it just because their parents are high achievers with high expectations who are addicted to striving
3) assert ALL manner of political and financial pressure to bear to bring back mandatory SAT/ACT for All college applications

Please get some help. Your obsession is over the top. You are posting the same thing over and over again.

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Anonymous wrote:The other adjustment needed is the idea that there is something special or essential about the rankings in USNWR.

Until people accept that hundreds of colleges have stellar students getting a stellar eduction from stellar professors and going on to have stellar careers, this anxiety producing nonsense about only 10-20 colleges being acceptable for strong students will not end.

If your top student is attending a school ranked 60, that school has a fantastic student who will go on to do great things -- likely better things than a hundred kids from Harvard. The workforce makes this obvious; look around you. On top of that, that top-ranked kid from your school might not even be the top student at that 60th ranked college. Yours isn't the only super bright kid attending those schools ranked in the 40-120 range. Do you really think there aren't any geniuses at 117-ranked RIT? There are.

T20 is probably a target that should go away, but there are not hundreds of stellar colleges. To take your "hundreds" literally, Ball State is 202 and Bellarmin University is 203 according to US news (there is a multiway tie for 196). Do you think any NCS student or parent sending their kid to NCS would think those are stellar schools?

You are forgetting the excellent options at small liberal arts and regional colleges, plus colleges abroad. I stand by hundreds of options.

It's not hundreds. It's actually about a hundred and that's being generious. Top 50 Universities, top 50 LACs. That's about it. I crack up when come on here talking about the thousands of colleges. If you come from a private in the DC area, that's just not true. It's hundreds of students competing for a small handful of the same schools. I will be disappointed if my kid winds up at College of Charleston or Elon, which unfortunately is what her counselor is going to recommend as matches (safe matches, but not even safeties). After attending a competitive school with bright, hardworking girls, can you imagine surrounding yourself with those who attend College of Charleston or Elon? It's a whole different world and would be a disappointment. There's no way that many of those girls are extremely disappointed.

Yes. The NCS college counselor recommend College of Charleston and Elon for my DD. 3.2 GPA and 34 ACT.

Would your daughter consider a university in England or elsewhere? Obviously not Oxford, but somewhere exciting and stimulating in another country? That might be a good option. (I don't say this to be nasty, but are there many girls with this sort of overall GPA, getting almost all B's?) When did your daughter start at NCS? Just Upper School or has she been there the whole time? I am really asking this in a positive spirit and don't mean any offense at all. Very curious as my DD will be starting this fall for 9th.

Curious as well. Seems like a big disconnect unless there is ADHD at play and test stakes were high and a hyperfocus.

You must be unfamiliar with NCS and obvilious to the rest of this thread. A 3.2 at NCS is not a cakewalk. It requires hard work. There is no disconnect. Just an average kid doing well at a tough school. That 3.2 is like a 4.5 at your local public.

I get it. Thanks for the info. Lots of ways to skin a cat here, not just the Overworked, Grade Deflation school way. Enjoy.

The above PP doesn't make sense to me. You say that the example is just an average kid at a tough school, and then equate a 3.2 with a 4.5, but an "average" kid doesn't get a 4.5 at any school... also, you are comparing a non weighted GPA with a weighted one...

Right, that's the point. Public school weight, NCS doesn't. So you have to compare them. And yes, the average kid does get a 4.5 at public schools. Maybe that's a bit exaggerated, but a 4.0 is definitely not 10% of th class at public school.

But colleges look at the unweighted GPAs of pubic high school students as well as private school students, and they recalibrate the GPAs of all applicants using their own individual systems. So if a kid got a 4.5 W GPA in public that could easily be a 3.5ish UW (if they got Bs in lots of AP classes) So I think you are wrong about the "average" student having this GPA. First off, "average" students don't sign up for the hardest classes at any school, public or private, and I think that the difference between these GPAs gets smaller when you take this into account. If you are applying to UCs or Michigan,etc where they get so many applicants they can't manage a personalized approach then you are at a disadvantage, but at smaller schools the personalized rec letters that show the teachers actually knows these students would help NCS girls, in comparison to most public school students, even way above average ones who get form type rec letters.

No, they just don't...

Maybe College Admissions officers- many of whom are early 30 somethings- just do as they are told and go along to get along... which in 2021- 2022 Admissions years means: Admit URM's , throw out the SAT scores and Amp Up the DII initiatives

And, cash the checks of parents who will Donate $$$$ to try to " ensure a spot for their kid" in that crock of a system

The Solution:

1) maybe lobby for federal funded 4 year college so that schools get subsidized and can step off of this USNWW PR rat race
2) Get new NCS Admin to end the grade deflation at NCS- waaaay too many decades setting a Masters level Bar for 14, 15 year old girls and getting away with it just because their parents are high achievers with high expectations who are addicted to striving
3) assert ALL manner of political and financial pressure to bear to bring back mandatory SAT/ACT for All college applications

Please get some help. Your obsession is over the top. You are posting the same thing over and over again.

Always blame the URMs for taking her kid’s spot. That’s clearly not what’s happening at NCS.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone think this is just a ploy to get someone to withdraw from their contract before May 31st...?
If not, what does the newish HOS have to say about this? Perhaps a change is afoot?

Have you looked at the list of where girls are going to school next year? It’s very impressive. The OP is completely deranged seriously.

Op is absolutely nuts. She posted the same question on another thread.

What’s nuts?

There’s a list of top college acceptances and the URMs, athletes and Big donors hoovered them all up. I’m sure they had decent grades and smarts too.

Of the 7 or so Athletic recruits I know from DC's Big 3 grad year ( in the last 2 years ), 4 were also Cum Laude society, Presidential Scholar nominee, who took the most challenging courses and were on several clubs in a leadership role ( Editor of school paper, etc.. ) in addition to being WAPO All Met, nationally ranked in their sport

Being a recruited athlete often means high performer in other areas, which is why colleges bet on them for decades

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone think this is just a ploy to get someone to withdraw from their contract before May 31st...?
If not, what does the newish HOS have to say about this? Perhaps a change is afoot?

Have you looked at the list of where girls are going to school next year? It’s very impressive. The OP is completely deranged seriously.

Op is absolutely nuts. She posted the same question on another thread.

What’s nuts?

There’s a list of top college acceptances and the URMs, athletes and Big donors hoovered them all up. I’m sure they had decent grades and smarts too.

Of the 7 or so Athletic recruits I know from DC's Big 3 grad year ( in the last 2 years ), 4 were also Cum Laude society, Presidential Scholar nominee, who took the most challenging courses and were on several clubs in a leadership role ( Editor of school paper, etc.. ) in addition to being WAPO All Met, nationally ranked in their sport

Being a recruited athlete often means high performer in other areas, which is why colleges bet on them for decades

These girls are outstanding and deserve their admits. BUT what about the club leader, cum laude, most rigorous courses etc same profile but athlete ends up at Columbia and students 2 who is unhooked ends up at BU. They are both brilliant but one has a much stronger outcome. And imagine student 2 who is top of their class then facing all the other kids who aren’t cum laude and taking the most rigorous courses end up at higher ranked school due to the hooks. That sucks for student 2.

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Anonymous wrote:The other adjustment needed is the idea that there is something special or essential about the rankings in USNWR.

Until people accept that hundreds of colleges have stellar students getting a stellar eduction from stellar professors and going on to have stellar careers, this anxiety producing nonsense about only 10-20 colleges being acceptable for strong students will not end.

If your top student is attending a school ranked 60, that school has a fantastic student who will go on to do great things -- likely better things than a hundred kids from Harvard. The workforce makes this obvious; look around you. On top of that, that top-ranked kid from your school might not even be the top student at that 60th ranked college. Yours isn't the only super bright kid attending those schools ranked in the 40-120 range. Do you really think there aren't any geniuses at 117-ranked RIT? There are.

T20 is probably a target that should go away, but there are not hundreds of stellar colleges. To take your "hundreds" literally, Ball State is 202 and Bellarmin University is 203 according to US news (there is a multiway tie for 196). Do you think any NCS student or parent sending their kid to NCS would think those are stellar schools?

You are forgetting the excellent options at small liberal arts and regional colleges, plus colleges abroad. I stand by hundreds of options.

It's not hundreds. It's actually about a hundred and that's being generious. Top 50 Universities, top 50 LACs. That's about it. I crack up when come on here talking about the thousands of colleges. If you come from a private in the DC area, that's just not true. It's hundreds of students competing for a small handful of the same schools. I will be disappointed if my kid winds up at College of Charleston or Elon, which unfortunately is what her counselor is going to recommend as matches (safe matches, but not even safeties). After attending a competitive school with bright, hardworking girls, can you imagine surrounding yourself with those who attend College of Charleston or Elon? It's a whole different world and would be a disappointment. There's no way that many of those girls are extremely disappointed.

Yes. The NCS college counselor recommend College of Charleston and Elon for my DD. 3.2 GPA and 34 ACT.

Would your daughter consider a university in England or elsewhere? Obviously not Oxford, but somewhere exciting and stimulating in another country? That might be a good option. (I don't say this to be nasty, but are there many girls with this sort of overall GPA, getting almost all B's?) When did your daughter start at NCS? Just Upper School or has she been there the whole time? I am really asking this in a positive spirit and don't mean any offense at all. Very curious as my DD will be starting this fall for 9th.

Curious as well. Seems like a big disconnect unless there is ADHD at play and test stakes were high and a hyperfocus.

You must be unfamiliar with NCS and obvilious to the rest of this thread. A 3.2 at NCS is not a cakewalk. It requires hard work. There is no disconnect. Just an average kid doing well at a tough school. That 3.2 is like a 4.5 at your local public.

I get it. Thanks for the info. Lots of ways to skin a cat here, not just the Overworked, Grade Deflation school way. Enjoy.

The above PP doesn't make sense to me. You say that the example is just an average kid at a tough school, and then equate a 3.2 with a 4.5, but an "average" kid doesn't get a 4.5 at any school... also, you are comparing a non weighted GPA with a weighted one...

Right, that's the point. Public school weight, NCS doesn't. So you have to compare them. And yes, the average kid does get a 4.5 at public schools. Maybe that's a bit exaggerated, but a 4.0 is definitely not 10% of th class at public school.

But colleges look at the unweighted GPAs of pubic high school students as well as private school students, and they recalibrate the GPAs of all applicants using their own individual systems. So if a kid got a 4.5 W GPA in public that could easily be a 3.5ish UW (if they got Bs in lots of AP classes) So I think you are wrong about the "average" student having this GPA. First off, "average" students don't sign up for the hardest classes at any school, public or private, and I think that the difference between these GPAs gets smaller when you take this into account. If you are applying to UCs or Michigan,etc where they get so many applicants they can't manage a personalized approach then you are at a disadvantage, but at smaller schools the personalized rec letters that show the teachers actually knows these students would help NCS girls, in comparison to most public school students, even way above average ones who get form type rec letters.

No, they just don't...

Maybe College Admissions officers- many of whom are early 30 somethings- just do as they are told and go along to get along... which in 2021- 2022 Admissions years means: Admit URM's , throw out the SAT scores and Amp Up the DII initiatives

And, cash the checks of parents who will Donate $$$$ to try to " ensure a spot for their kid" in that crock of a system

The Solution:

1) maybe lobby for federal funded 4 year college so that schools get subsidized and can step off of this USNWW PR rat race
2) Get new NCS Admin to end the grade deflation at NCS- waaaay too many decades setting a Masters level Bar for 14, 15 year old girls and getting away with it just because their parents are high achievers with high expectations who are addicted to striving
3) assert ALL manner of political and financial pressure to bear to bring back mandatory SAT/ACT for All college applications

Not NCS. Parent at another Big 3 school with similar issues. Cannot emphasize Item 2 above enough. I would add one more element to the list: Force any schools who get federal funding to stop legacy admissions and race based caps.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone think this is just a ploy to get someone to withdraw from their contract before May 31st...?
If not, what does the newish HOS have to say about this? Perhaps a change is afoot?

Have you looked at the list of where girls are going to school next year? It’s very impressive. The OP is completely deranged seriously.

For the 1000th time, the OP's point (verified in this post by many senior parents) is that all IVY and other top 20 admits (aside from 2) are HOOKED applicants.
Not that they're not impressive. Just that kids did not get in to those schools if they were not: 1)an athlete, 2)an URM or 3)a big donor legacy or multi-generational legacy.
That's the POINT of this post.

And then she said that she is freaking out about the thought that her daughter may go to one of the schools that the "unhooked" kids are going to. Rude.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone think this is just a ploy to get someone to withdraw from their contract before May 31st...?
If not, what does the newish HOS have to say about this? Perhaps a change is afoot?

Have you looked at the list of where girls are going to school next year? It’s very impressive. The OP is completely deranged seriously.

Op is absolutely nuts. She posted the same question on another thread.

What’s nuts?

There’s a list of top college acceptances and the URMs, athletes and Big donors hoovered them all up. I’m sure they had decent grades and smarts too.

Of the 7 or so Athletic recruits I know from DC's Big 3 grad year ( in the last 2 years ), 4 were also Cum Laude society, Presidential Scholar nominee, who took the most challenging courses and were on several clubs in a leadership role ( Editor of school paper, etc.. ) in addition to being WAPO All Met, nationally ranked in their sport

Being a recruited athlete often means high performer in other areas, which is why colleges bet on them for decades

These girls are outstanding and deserve their admits. BUT what about the club leader, cum laude, most rigorous courses etc same profile but athlete ends up at Columbia and students 2 who is unhooked ends up at BU. They are both brilliant but one has a much stronger outcome. And imagine student 2 who is top of their class then facing all the other kids who aren’t cum laude and taking the most rigorous courses end up at higher ranked school due to the hooks. That sucks for student 2.

Then student 2 should have tried to be more like student 1 and be a great academic candidate AND a great athlete. But student 2 didn't show that kind of hard work and commitment. I'm sure student 2 had to work hard, but not as hard as athletes have to.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone think this is just a ploy to get someone to withdraw from their contract before May 31st...?
If not, what does the newish HOS have to say about this? Perhaps a change is afoot?

Have you looked at the list of where girls are going to school next year? It’s very impressive. The OP is completely deranged seriously.

Op is absolutely nuts. She posted the same question on another thread.

What’s nuts?

There’s a list of top college acceptances and the URMs, athletes and Big donors hoovered them all up. I’m sure they had decent grades and smarts too.

Of the 7 or so Athletic recruits I know from DC's Big 3 grad year ( in the last 2 years ), 4 were also Cum Laude society, Presidential Scholar nominee, who took the most challenging courses and were on several clubs in a leadership role ( Editor of school paper, etc.. ) in addition to being WAPO All Met, nationally ranked in their sport

Being a recruited athlete often means high performer in other areas, which is why colleges bet on them for decades

These girls are outstanding and deserve their admits. BUT what about the club leader, cum laude, most rigorous courses etc same profile but athlete ends up at Columbia and students 2 who is unhooked ends up at BU. They are both brilliant but one has a much stronger outcome. And imagine student 2 who is top of their class then facing all the other kids who aren’t cum laude and taking the most rigorous courses end up at higher ranked school due to the hooks. That sucks for student 2.

Then student 2 should have tried to be more like student 1 and be a great academic candidate AND a great athlete. But student 2 didn't show that kind of hard work and commitment. I'm sure student 2 had to work hard, but not as hard as athletes have to.

SO TRUE! Because no other extracurricular requires commitment and hard work!

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone think this is just a ploy to get someone to withdraw from their contract before May 31st...?
If not, what does the newish HOS have to say about this? Perhaps a change is afoot?

Have you looked at the list of where girls are going to school next year? It’s very impressive. The OP is completely deranged seriously.

Op is absolutely nuts. She posted the same question on another thread.

What’s nuts?

There’s a list of top college acceptances and the URMs, athletes and Big donors hoovered them all up. I’m sure they had decent grades and smarts too.

Of the 7 or so Athletic recruits I know from DC's Big 3 grad year ( in the last 2 years ), 4 were also Cum Laude society, Presidential Scholar nominee, who took the most challenging courses and were on several clubs in a leadership role ( Editor of school paper, etc.. ) in addition to being WAPO All Met, nationally ranked in their sport

Being a recruited athlete often means high performer in other areas, which is why colleges bet on them for decades

These girls are outstanding and deserve their admits. BUT what about the club leader, cum laude, most rigorous courses etc same profile but athlete ends up at Columbia and students 2 who is unhooked ends up at BU. They are both brilliant but one has a much stronger outcome. And imagine student 2 who is top of their class then facing all the other kids who aren’t cum laude and taking the most rigorous courses end up at higher ranked school due to the hooks. That sucks for student 2.

Life is not fair. I could give you 1000 examples of how life is so unfair and have so many people I know that have literally been handed things on a silver platter and others who have not. Life is not fair.I am starting to think this is a student that is unhappy with her college selection. Hon you gotta let this go. You are starting to sound unhinged. You are writing the same thing all over this thread and your posts are elsewhere on other threads which you may have also started. You have to let this go. It will all be okay I promise. I really mean that.