Where do you think Malia Obama will enroll?

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Anonymous wrote:Leave her alone. She is just a normal kid going through her senior year and the application process with her friends. I think the press should leave Presidents' kids alone unless and until they become adults and voluntarily enter politics.

If she were a normal kid she wouldn't be visiting Ivy League schools.

That's crap. 'Normal' is my kid's middle name and has visited 3 Ivy schools and will apply. And my normal kid has great grades AND we're middle class. So there!

I don't think kids who are "normal" have the grades and SAT scores to get into Ivy League schools. They're probably in the top .5% of HS kids; that hardly qualifies as normal. If your kid has a good shot for an Ivy League school then academically they're exceptional, that's what I was getting at.

They are competitive schools and you have to be a strong student to be admitted, but "exceptional" to even consider is a bit of a stretch. The 25th percentile combined SAT score for Cornell is 1970, which is 92nd percentile for all college bound seniors. In other words, there are kids getting into Ivy League schools who are in the top 8% - not top .5% - and some even bellow this. The odds are still long to get in, but a broad set of "good" students apply and are accepted.

I'd guess the vast majority of kids at the 25th percentile are minorities or recruited athletes or have some other hook. A normal white/Asian kid with no hooks and a 1970 isn't going to sniff an Ivy League school.

Then please explain why Asians and whites are the dual majority at every college other than historically black colleges. The Fiske guide lists hundreds of well-known schools and only 2 or 3 have 10% minority and one of those is Columbia University. All the others have 2-4% African American representation.

Columbia is 12% AA, 13% Hispanic, 3% Native American and 7% other. Combine that with recruited athletes and I'd guess that the majority of them would be in the bottom 25% stats wise. There are probably 500 AA (if that) that score above the median for most Ivy League schools.

http://www.jbhe.com/features/49_college_admissions-test.html

"If we raise the top-scoring threshold to students scoring 750 or above on both the math and verbal SAT — a level equal to the mean score of students entering the nation's most selective colleges such as Harvard, Princeton, and CalTech — we find that in the entire country 244 blacks scored 750 or above on the math SAT and 363 black students scored 750 or above on the verbal portion of the test"

Yes, just like my AA daughter who scored 2380. Go away. Your numbers are flat wrong.

+1. And count my nephew also.

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1. Yale
2. Brown
3. Columbia
4. Harvard
5. Princeton

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Anonymous wrote:1. Yale
2. Brown
3. Columbia
4. Harvard
5. Princeton

My money's still on Stanford or Brown.

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Just curious...why does anyone actually care where she goes to school? Or is this just a "I'm bored with nothing better to do discussion"

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Anonymous wrote:Just curious...why does anyone actually care where she goes to school? Or is this just a "I'm bored with nothing better to do discussion"

I care because I have a high school kid coming up, and whichever school she attends will be flooded with applications...stanford would go from 6% acceptance rate to 3.

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Anonymous wrote:1. Yale
2. Brown
3. Columbia
4. Harvard
5. Princeton

My money's still on Stanford or Brown.

I don't think Stanford. She was quoted as saying she did not like Stanford when she visited last year. She likely Berkeley better.

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Anonymous wrote:Just curious...why does anyone actually care where she goes to school? Or is this just a "I'm bored with nothing better to do discussion"

I care because I have a high school kid coming up, and whichever school she attends will be flooded with applications...stanford would go from 6% acceptance rate to 3.

So true.

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Brown
Yale
Columbia
Harvard
Princeton

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Anonymous wrote:Just curious...why does anyone actually care where she goes to school? Or is this just a "I'm bored with nothing better to do discussion"

I care because I have a high school kid coming up, and whichever school she attends will be flooded with applications...stanford would go from 6% acceptance rate to 3.

So true.

I respect the president's many accomplishments in office, bUt by now the country largely seems over the Obamas.

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Anonymous wrote:Leave her alone. She is just a normal kid going through her senior year and the application process with her friends. I think the press should leave Presidents' kids alone unless and until they become adults and voluntarily enter politics.

If she were a normal kid she wouldn't be visiting Ivy League schools.

That's crap. 'Normal' is my kid's middle name and has visited 3 Ivy schools and will apply. And my normal kid has great grades AND we're middle class. So there!

I don't think kids who are "normal" have the grades and SAT scores to get into Ivy League schools. They're probably in the top .5% of HS kids; that hardly qualifies as normal. If your kid has a good shot for an Ivy League school then academically they're exceptional, that's what I was getting at.

They are competitive schools and you have to be a strong student to be admitted, but "exceptional" to even consider is a bit of a stretch. The 25th percentile combined SAT score for Cornell is 1970, which is 92nd percentile for all college bound seniors. In other words, there are kids getting into Ivy League schools who are in the top 8% - not top .5% - and some even bellow this. The odds are still long to get in, but a broad set of "good" students apply and are accepted.

I'd guess the vast majority of kids at the 25th percentile are minorities or recruited athletes or have some other hook. A normal white/Asian kid with no hooks and a 1970 isn't going to sniff an Ivy League school.

Then please explain why Asians and whites are the dual majority at every college other than historically black colleges. The Fiske guide lists hundreds of well-known schools and only 2 or 3 have 10% minority and one of those is Columbia University. All the others have 2-4% African American representation.

Columbia is 12% AA, 13% Hispanic, 3% Native American and 7% other. Combine that with recruited athletes and I'd guess that the majority of them would be in the bottom 25% stats wise. There are probably 500 AA (if that) that score above the median for most Ivy League schools.

http://www.jbhe.com/features/49_college_admissions-test.html

"If we raise the top-scoring threshold to students scoring 750 or above on both the math and verbal SAT — a level equal to the mean score of students entering the nation's most selective colleges such as Harvard, Princeton, and CalTech — we find that in the entire country 244 blacks scored 750 or above on the math SAT and 363 black students scored 750 or above on the verbal portion of the test"

Yes, just like my AA daughter who scored 2380. Go away. Your numbers are flat wrong.

+1. And count my nephew also.

Wow, since so many AA kids are crushing it on the SAT (ignore the data from the College Board; what do they know anyway?) I'm sure you're all for the Supreme Court striking down affirmitave action right?

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Anonymous wrote:Leave her alone. She is just a normal kid going through her senior year and the application process with her friends. I think the press should leave Presidents' kids alone unless and until they become adults and voluntarily enter politics.

If she were a normal kid she wouldn't be visiting Ivy League schools.

That's crap. 'Normal' is my kid's middle name and has visited 3 Ivy schools and will apply. And my normal kid has great grades AND we're middle class. So there!

I don't think kids who are "normal" have the grades and SAT scores to get into Ivy League schools. They're probably in the top .5% of HS kids; that hardly qualifies as normal. If your kid has a good shot for an Ivy League school then academically they're exceptional, that's what I was getting at.

They are competitive schools and you have to be a strong student to be admitted, but "exceptional" to even consider is a bit of a stretch. The 25th percentile combined SAT score for Cornell is 1970, which is 92nd percentile for all college bound seniors. In other words, there are kids getting into Ivy League schools who are in the top 8% - not top .5% - and some even bellow this. The odds are still long to get in, but a broad set of "good" students apply and are accepted.

I'd guess the vast majority of kids at the 25th percentile are minorities or recruited athletes or have some other hook. A normal white/Asian kid with no hooks and a 1970 isn't going to sniff an Ivy League school.

Then please explain why Asians and whites are the dual majority at every college other than historically black colleges. The Fiske guide lists hundreds of well-known schools and only 2 or 3 have 10% minority and one of those is Columbia University. All the others have 2-4% African American representation.

Columbia is 12% AA, 13% Hispanic, 3% Native American and 7% other. Combine that with recruited athletes and I'd guess that the majority of them would be in the bottom 25% stats wise. There are probably 500 AA (if that) that score above the median for most Ivy League schools.

http://www.jbhe.com/features/49_college_admissions-test.html

"If we raise the top-scoring threshold to students scoring 750 or above on both the math and verbal SAT — a level equal to the mean score of students entering the nation's most selective colleges such as Harvard, Princeton, and CalTech — we find that in the entire country 244 blacks scored 750 or above on the math SAT and 363 black students scored 750 or above on the verbal portion of the test"

Yes, just like my AA daughter who scored 2380. Go away. Your numbers are flat wrong.

+1. And count my nephew also.

Wow, since so many AA kids are crushing it on the SAT (ignore the data from the College Board; what do they know anyway?) I'm sure you're all for the Supreme Court striking down affirmitave action right?

Don't you have a John Birch meeting to attend? Geez!!!

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After you're done playing this stupid game, maybe you can bet on what Kim Kardashian is going to wear on her birthday.

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I think it's a great question because I come to DCUM for entertainment. Don't you?

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Anonymous wrote:After you're done playing this stupid game, maybe you can bet on what Kim Kardashian is going to wear on her birthday.

that's easy: it will be black or white or tan, and very tight, with mega-cleavage

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Anonymous wrote:Some privates can certainly do better than that. There are a lot of kids at Sidwell with ACTs or SATs in the 99%+ percentile. I'd say most Sidwell kids are around the 75% at these schools. Some higher.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/schools-highest-sat-scores_n_4654077.html

TJ has the highest SAT scores in the nation. The only DC school that was in the top 25 was Sidwell at 16th. The average for all the top 25 was 2100; which puts them around the 25th percentile for most Ivy League schools.

+1 and Sidwell has 40 percent students of color, so there are quite a local AA few students with 98/99% scores like my DC. That is one of many reasons these schools send so many kids to the Ivies and similar
colleges