Any students in the past received 1 or less admission?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the late 90s I applied to Georgetown and GW. Was waitlisted at GT and accepted to GW with a very generous merit scholarship.

Who cares.

Parents stop with your admit statistics. They don’t matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Know one kid in last year's HS senior class @ DC's school who was rejected everywhere but 2 safeties (a Big 10 and an East coast public uni). Kid had a 4.0 u/w GPA, 1580 SAT, a couple 800 SAT subject tests, published research, good ECs, NMSF, Presidential Scholar nominee, blah blah. Kid was devastated at time but now happy at school. DC in ED1, but some classmates who are not in periodically invoke this example.

Asian American??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:1 safety. 19 reaches. Why not? It is a lottery and u should go for it as long as you have the safety.

but what 19 schools are "reaches" for someone with perfect grades and SAT scores? Nevermind answering that, but there shouldn't be

Any school with less than a 20% admittance rate is classified as a reach, no matter the stats. This comes straight from our private college counselor.

Besides, the top schools generally expect spectacular ECs in addition to top scores.

My kid has perfect GPA, prefect SAT, very impressive ECs (but not spectacular). Asian-American male. Even the safety is a very highly rated school (and he is in). He has applied to other schools just to see if he gets in or not. I guess he was bored and wanted to waste some of my money for kicks. My kid does not have a single reach according to Naviance. Every single college is a match or safety What a load of BS.

^ has he heard from any of them, other than the safety?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1 safety. 19 reaches. Why not? It is a lottery and u should go for it as long as you have the safety.

but what 19 schools are "reaches" for someone with perfect grades and SAT scores? Nevermind answering that, but there shouldn't be

Not necessarily reaches, but certainly not safeties.

[Anonymous]

Best advice ever given by our guidance counselor was to make your first priority finding a safety that your kid really loves - do this, and the rest is easy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Best advice ever given by our guidance counselor was to make your first priority finding a safety that your kid really loves - do this, and the rest is easy.

+1 And add another true safety that is rolling

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1 safety. 19 reaches. Why not? It is a lottery and u should go for it as long as you have the safety.

but what 19 schools are "reaches" for someone with perfect grades and SAT scores? Nevermind answering that, but there shouldn't be

So call them 19 lotteries. Competitive schools with are getting huge numbers of brilliant kids with impressive applications.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1 safety. 19 reaches. Why not? It is a lottery and u should go for it as long as you have the safety.

but what 19 schools are "reaches" for someone with perfect grades and SAT scores? Nevermind answering that, but there shouldn't be

Any school with less than a 20% admittance rate is classified as a reach, no matter the stats. This comes straight from our private college counselor.

Besides, the top schools generally expect spectacular ECs in addition to top scores.

My kid has perfect GPA, prefect SAT, very impressive ECs (but not spectacular). Asian-American male. Even the safety is a very highly rated school (and he is in). He has applied to other schools just to see if he gets in or not. I guess he was bored and wanted to waste some of my money for kicks. My kid does not have a single reach according to Naviance. Every single college is a match or safety What a load of BS.

^ has he heard from any of them, other than the safety?

But Naviance “matches” are not matches at that level. They are all lottery schools at that level.