Compared Against Peers - T20 Admissions

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Anonymous wrote:does anyone have any more guidance on this situation from the last cycle?

You have to hope that the top 5 kids in the class get their ED. Otherwise they can shut out the rest of the class from all top20 schools in regular decision. This happened at our private this past year.

Agreed that this can and does happen. At DC's private two students were the only ones who got into Brown and both students had EA acceptances at HYP already so it was sort of ridiculous that they applied RD to Brown (and no, they were not FA candidates - they just wanted to collect acceptance letters from 10+ schools after already getting their first choice school). I think they were just clueless and sort of self-centered.

yep and unfortunately there are a ton of low character kids in these privates who would behave like this - deplorable

It doesn't happen as much at the good publics. They are bigger of course. So the shame and hate is at a different level. Which is good. Students applying to schools they have no intention of going to are the worst. The trophy hunters that hurt everyone else in the class are a special kind of evil.

But I think in the good publics, students are more low-key about where they apply. No one wants that noise as a trophy hunter. They are genuinely despised by all the other smart kids that really do want to go those schools. If you are already settled on Princeton, and you are collecting Brown and Northwestern and Vanderbilt for the giggles, yeah, there will be a special hate for them and their families.

At public schools, financial aid packages are an issue. Your kid can get in off the waitlist after the smart kids figure out what they can afford.

Did that make you feel good?

The paupers and idiots at Whitman and Langley are trembling in anticipation of what your "smart" kid might decide.

The smart kids that are applying to schools even after getting into their dream school are the paupers. The poor kids have to apply to a lot more schools even after getting into their ED school because they might not be able to afford their ED school. Just because you would pay MSRP for your kid's dream school doesn't mean every kid can go to their dream school just because they got in.

Check your privilege poor little rich girl.

If a wealthy rich kid is applying Regular Admissions after getting into the school they want to go to then they are being inconsiderate (it seems weird to me that anyone would want to spend their free time filling out college applications), but some of them... maybe even many of them are trying to figure out what they can afford.

This is an urban legend.
The net price calculator are really accurate- esp if low income with limited assets.

It isn’t the low income poor kids that need to compare packages. It is usually the lower UMC donut families who don’t qualify for aid but yet can’t pay 90k full pay either. I once wrote a post about kids picking publics or privates and got flamed.

Those kids are also chasing merit and use that as way to get out of ED.