Class of 22 admissions report

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG. Those are some low test scores. My kids ended up at a private HS because I didn’t feel comfortable sending them there and they had much higher test scores taken end of sophomore year of HS.

It’s kind of jarring. You can definitely see grade inflation in that data.

You cant extrapolate that. It could be the same 20 kids showing up in several rows. The chart also doesn’t tell you what the top 5 pr 10 percent cutoff is. Thats more important than whatever GPa attaches to that rank.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow - no. Seems like a lot of easily identifiable information, especially when only one student was accepted. I would not like that. Some of the data doesn’t quite add up. They may round differently in different columns. It must include scores that weren’t submitted, rt? No way anyone would submit some of those scores. But then it doesn’t always include all scores so maybe if a student submits SAT only but took ACT, the ACT score also gets reported on here?

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Very easy to tell what someone's scores/GPA was if only one or two people applied. Seems like a real invasion of privacy.

You mean if only 1 or 2 were accepted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC just graduated from W-L. There is an IB program at W-L that is like a school within a school. Those kids get great admissions results to Top 10 schools and especially Univ of California schools.

Top 10% cut off is around 4.3. Im surprised to see the SAT and ACT scores. Clearly lots of these kids went test optional. FYI the data is not pulled from Naviance per the college counselor.

My kid just graduated with an IB Diploma from W-L. I never thought of it as a school within a school, but I suppose things can look different to different people. My kid had a 3.98 GPA/4.53 wGPA and a 35 ACT, and the full IB Diploma, and that didn't seem to really help him with top-10 schools (or even top-20 schools), but that's a different story for another day. I think he's landed in a very good spot, and I think he got an excellent education at W-L.

[Anonymous]

If the graduating class did an Instagram for where they’re headed, you’d be able to match them up. The ten year chart is too much to be helpful. But they could do a 3 year chart instead to balance usefulness with privacy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seeing some of those low scores (that were surely not submitted) made me feel better in some ways (but worse in others). But at least proof that not every kid has a 1450+ like is seemingly claimed on here.

It also depends on the high school in question. Some high schools have much higher stats.

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Anonymous wrote:Clearly colleges need to make testing mandatory again.

ok, but that's not what his chart proves

It proves a lot of parents/students were lying about their test scores to everyone

Right? My kid totally undershot based on this information.

I suspect that the very low test scores are people are pretty strongly "hooked," either as athletic recruits (most likely), or big development potential, or perhaps in a few cases URM's who were otherwise fantastic candidates for admission.

I don’t know that many recruits at top schools from WL so URM is much more likely given the school demographics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Seeing some of those low scores (that were surely not submitted) made me feel better in some ways (but worse in others). But at least proof that not every kid has a 1450+ like is seemingly claimed on here.

It also depends on the high school in question. Some high schools have much higher stats.

It pisses me off scores aren’t required. So many kids with every advantage in the world (not the students that taking away scores was supposed to help) are now clogging admissions and applying places they never would have ever considered if they had to submit that low score.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC just graduated from W-L. There is an IB program at W-L that is like a school within a school. Those kids get great admissions results to Top 10 schools and especially Univ of California schools.

Top 10% cut off is around 4.3. Im surprised to see the SAT and ACT scores. Clearly lots of these kids went test optional. FYI the data is not pulled from Naviance per the college counselor.

My kid just graduated with an IB Diploma from W-L. I never thought of it as a school within a school, but I suppose things can look different to different people. My kid had a 3.98 GPA/4.53 wGPA and a 35 ACT, and the full IB Diploma, and that didn't seem to really help him with top-10 schools (or even top-20 schools), but that's a different story for another day. I think he's landed in a very good spot, and I think he got an excellent education at W-L.

That’s tough! Looking at the data, it looks like your kid’s scores match up to UVA. If so, that’s a plum landing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC just graduated from W-L. There is an IB program at W-L that is like a school within a school. Those kids get great admissions results to Top 10 schools and especially Univ of California schools.

Top 10% cut off is around 4.3. Im surprised to see the SAT and ACT scores. Clearly lots of these kids went test optional. FYI the data is not pulled from Naviance per the college counselor.

My kid just graduated with an IB Diploma from W-L. I never thought of it as a school within a school, but I suppose things can look different to different people. My kid had a 3.98 GPA/4.53 wGPA and a 35 ACT, and the full IB Diploma, and that didn't seem to really help him with top-10 schools (or even top-20 schools), but that's a different story for another day. I think he's landed in a very good spot, and I think he got an excellent education at W-L.

That’s tough! Looking at the data, it looks like your kid’s scores match up to UVA. If so, that’s a plum landing.

UVa was one of the places that didn't admit him, to my (continued) surprise. But he had what to him (and me) seemed like an excellent, out of state, private alternative that he's pretty excited about. Since it game with a very generous merit aid package, the cost differential from a VA state school doesn't seem quite so financially painful...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Seeing some of those low scores (that were surely not submitted) made me feel better in some ways (but worse in others). But at least proof that not every kid has a 1450+ like is seemingly claimed on here.

It also depends on the high school in question. Some high schools have much higher stats.

It pisses me off scores aren’t required. So many kids with every advantage in the world (not the students that taking away scores was supposed to help) are now clogging admissions and applying places they never would have ever considered if they had to submit that low score.

Yah. Bummer your kid blew all of that time and money prepping and studying while others did something more fun/valuable. Tests are done. No one cares anymore. Your little Prep machine will need to find some other formula.

[Anonymous]

Someone got into UVA with a 3.1???? That should light this board up like crazy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC just graduated from W-L. There is an IB program at W-L that is like a school within a school. Those kids get great admissions results to Top 10 schools and especially Univ of California schools.

Top 10% cut off is around 4.3. Im surprised to see the SAT and ACT scores. Clearly lots of these kids went test optional. FYI the data is not pulled from Naviance per the college counselor.

My kid just graduated with an IB Diploma from W-L. I never thought of it as a school within a school, but I suppose things can look different to different people. My kid had a 3.98 GPA/4.53 wGPA and a 35 ACT, and the full IB Diploma, and that didn't seem to really help him with top-10 schools (or even top-20 schools), but that's a different story for another day. I think he's landed in a very good spot, and I think he got an excellent education at W-L.

That’s tough! Looking at the data, it looks like your kid’s scores match up to UVA. If so, that’s a plum landing.

UVa was one of the places that didn't admit him, to my (continued) surprise. But he had what to him (and me) seemed like an excellent, out of state, private alternative that he's pretty excited about. Since it game with a very generous merit aid package, the cost differential from a VA state school doesn't seem quite so financially painful...

That is hard to understand. Your kid is probably in the top 5% of the class with an IB diploma. Their loss! My kid also just graduated W-L with a full IB diploma. Also heading to an out of state private school that they’re very happy with. No merit aid for us though. Congrats to your son!!

[Anonymous]

I am confused by much of this data. E.g., the avg SAT score for Tufts was a 1510, but the avg ACT score was 27?? And someone was accepted to Tufts with an ACT score of 18?? Is it possible the ACT scorers applied test optional? There are other colleges on the chart reflecting data like this, too.

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Anonymous wrote:DC just graduated from W-L. There is an IB program at W-L that is like a school within a school. Those kids get great admissions results to Top 10 schools and especially Univ of California schools.

Top 10% cut off is around 4.3. Im surprised to see the SAT and ACT scores. Clearly lots of these kids went test optional. FYI the data is not pulled from Naviance per the college counselor.

My kid just graduated with an IB Diploma from W-L. I never thought of it as a school within a school, but I suppose things can look different to different people. My kid had a 3.98 GPA/4.53 wGPA and a 35 ACT, and the full IB Diploma, and that didn't seem to really help him with top-10 schools (or even top-20 schools), but that's a different story for another day. I think he's landed in a very good spot, and I think he got an excellent education at W-L.

That’s tough! Looking at the data, it looks like your kid’s scores match up to UVA. If so, that’s a plum landing.

UVa was one of the places that didn't admit him, to my (continued) surprise. But he had what to him (and me) seemed like an excellent, out of state, private alternative that he's pretty excited about. Since it game with a very generous merit aid package, the cost differential from a VA state school doesn't seem quite so financially painful...

That is hard to understand. Your kid is probably in the top 5% of the class with an IB diploma. Their loss! My kid also just graduated W-L with a full IB diploma. Also heading to an out of state private school that they’re very happy with. No merit aid for us though. Congrats to your son!!

It was for me, but I think its all working out. Thanks, and best of luck to your kid!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am confused by much of this data. E.g., the avg SAT score for Tufts was a 1510, but the avg ACT score was 27?? And someone was accepted to Tufts with an ACT score of 18?? Is it possible the ACT scorers applied test optional? There are other colleges on the chart reflecting data like this, too.

Likely they applied test optional. But they could have submitted a high SAT score. Some of these tests could have just been taken unprepped once. Maybe they didn’t finish the test.