What was your UNHOOKED Big3 senior's GPA and what type of school are they attending in the fall?

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Also add my private kid did a sport and was a co-captain.

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Anonymous wrote:Cornell loves public school kids. Applied from both public and private. Public school kid less impressive academically at Jackson Reed vs. my private school kid. Cornell took the JR one Potomac. This happens too often.

Was this the same year? Asking because if the JR acceptance was an earlier year and Potomac rejection 2023, it could be just that. Admissions changed for many schools in 2023 vs 2022 (and not because test optional - but in how they treated full pay non-urm) and we all know test optional changed 21/22 compared to pre-COVID

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Anonymous wrote:Cornell loves public school kids. Applied from both public and private. Public school kid less impressive academically at Jackson Reed vs. my private school kid. Cornell took the JR one Potomac. This happens too often.

Cornell took a lot of JR kids this year.

It will be interesting to see how the JR kids do in general at college (not specifically this cohort but the grade at large). there are some true rockstars but also lots of kids who got straight As for not doing much of anything. they were the benefactors of Covid grading (no grades given less than a B for kids who turned in anything during those 18 months) and those standards have not really returned to normal since. grades remain crazily inflated. This mostly just hurts the high achievers at JR because the pool of top students is diluted with kids who don't belong there. It will be interesting to see if their performance at college impacts future admissions.
Signed, JR and private school parent

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Anonymous wrote:Very good GPA for rigorous Big3 (3.7), strong (but not tippy top) SATs at 1490 and strong ECs. Did not have a great college outcomes. Got into one Top 50 school and several Top 100s. Waitlisted at many places - very few rejections. Chose one of the Top 100s.

Did they apply early decision anywhere? Sorry the outcomes weren’t great. Your child sounds very bright. Once upon a time in semi recent history people got into ivies with those stats.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very good GPA for rigorous Big3 (3.7), strong (but not tippy top) SATs at 1490 and strong ECs. Did not have a great college outcomes. Got into one Top 50 school and several Top 100s. Waitlisted at many places - very few rejections. Chose one of the Top 100s.

Did they apply early decision anywhere? Sorry the outcomes weren’t great. Your child sounds very bright. Once upon a time in semi recent history people got into ivies with those stats.

Not OP but one of the PPs here.

Applied ED was deferred and then rejected in RD.

EAs
Likely/target: accepted to 2
T25: deferred ED then WL in RD

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cornell loves public school kids. Applied from both public and private. Public school kid less impressive academically at Jackson Reed vs. my private school kid. Cornell took the JR one Potomac. This happens too often.

Cornell took a lot of JR kids this year.

It will be interesting to see how the JR kids do in general at college (not specifically this cohort but the grade at large). there are some true rockstars but also lots of kids who got straight As for not doing much of anything. they were the benefactors of Covid grading (no grades given less than a B for kids who turned in anything during those 18 months) and those standards have not really returned to normal since. grades remain crazily inflated. This mostly just hurts the high achievers at JR because the pool of top students is diluted with kids who don't belong there. It will be interesting to see if their performance at college impacts future admissions.
Signed, JR and private school parent

Oh please - we can all say the same about our private school and covid and the insane amount of outside "help" these kids got from parents and tutors. In my son's class at Sidwell, every project done is part parent's effort. Wonder if these kids are brining their parents to college. We refuse to play that game and complained once to teachers and they said they can't stop it but the do know it happens.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cornell loves public school kids. Applied from both public and private. Public school kid less impressive academically at Jackson Reed vs. my private school kid. Cornell took the JR one Potomac. This happens too often.

Cornell took a lot of JR kids this year.

It will be interesting to see how the JR kids do in general at college (not specifically this cohort but the grade at large). there are some true rockstars but also lots of kids who got straight As for not doing much of anything. they were the benefactors of Covid grading (no grades given less than a B for kids who turned in anything during those 18 months) and those standards have not really returned to normal since. grades remain crazily inflated. This mostly just hurts the high achievers at JR because the pool of top students is diluted with kids who don't belong there. It will be interesting to see if their performance at college impacts future admissions.
Signed, JR and private school parent

Oh please - we can all say the same about our private school and covid and the insane amount of outside "help" these kids got from parents and tutors. In my son's class at Sidwell, every project done is part parent's effort. Wonder if these kids are brining their parents to college. We refuse to play that game and complained once to teachers and they said they can't stop it but the do know it happens.

Hih, this has not been my kid's experience at the Cathedral high schools. My son is always up doing group projects and similar between 10pm and 2am. No parents involved.

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Anonymous wrote:Cornell loves public school kids. Applied from both public and private. Public school kid less impressive academically at Jackson Reed vs. my private school kid. Cornell took the JR one Potomac. This happens too often.

Gross. This is why we dislike private school parents.

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Anonymous wrote:Also add my private kid did a sport and was a co-captain.

Colleges don't care unless he was good enough to get recruited.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cornell loves public school kids. Applied from both public and private. Public school kid less impressive academically at Jackson Reed vs. my private school kid. Cornell took the JR one Potomac. This happens too often.

Cornell took a lot of JR kids this year.

It will be interesting to see how the JR kids do in general at college (not specifically this cohort but the grade at large). there are some true rockstars but also lots of kids who got straight As for not doing much of anything. they were the benefactors of Covid grading (no grades given less than a B for kids who turned in anything during those 18 months) and those standards have not really returned to normal since. grades remain crazily inflated. This mostly just hurts the high achievers at JR because the pool of top students is diluted with kids who don't belong there. It will be interesting to see if their performance at college impacts future admissions.
Signed, JR and private school parent

Oh please - we can all say the same about our private school and covid and the insane amount of outside "help" these kids got from parents and tutors. In my son's class at Sidwell, every project done is part parent's effort. Wonder if these kids are brining their parents to college. We refuse to play that game and complained once to teachers and they said they can't stop it but the do know it happens.

This is interesting. We are Sidwell parents and we have never participated in our child's work. We don't even know or see what they do. The go to school, they get their grades, we see no homework, no written work (not even AFTER), no tests - EVER.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cornell loves public school kids. Applied from both public and private. Public school kid less impressive academically at Jackson Reed vs. my private school kid. Cornell took the JR one Potomac. This happens too often.

Gross. This is why we dislike private school parents.

The prior PP has TWO kids - one at JR and one at Private.....so do you hate the private half of the parent but like the public part? So weird.

[Anonymous]

Best Advice - Apply ED to a TARGET not a Reach!

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Anonymous wrote:Best Advice - Apply ED to a TARGET not a Reach!

Except my kid got into ‘true’ targets (schools where their stats above 75th %ile and acceptance rates were not below 20%). It was the schools where they are targets for stats (above 75th %ile) but very low acceptance rates where rejections occurred. So EDin to true targets would have been a worse outcome.

[Anonymous]

Multiple very strong unhooked kids to Chicago (this year and last). More ED2 but also RD.
Chicago still seems to like the Big3, especially Sidwell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cornell loves public school kids. Applied from both public and private. Public school kid less impressive academically at Jackson Reed vs. my private school kid. Cornell took the JR one Potomac. This happens too often.

Cornell took a lot of JR kids this year.

It will be interesting to see how the JR kids do in general at college (not specifically this cohort but the grade at large). there are some true rockstars but also lots of kids who got straight As for not doing much of anything. they were the benefactors of Covid grading (no grades given less than a B for kids who turned in anything during those 18 months) and those standards have not really returned to normal since. grades remain crazily inflated. This mostly just hurts the high achievers at JR because the pool of top students is diluted with kids who don't belong there. It will be interesting to see if their performance at college impacts future admissions.
Signed, JR and private school parent

Oh please - we can all say the same about our private school and covid and the insane amount of outside "help" these kids got from parents and tutors. In my son's class at Sidwell, every project done is part parent's effort. Wonder if these kids are brining their parents to college. We refuse to play that game and complained once to teachers and they said they can't stop it but the do know it happens.

Wonder we are in the same “Sidwell”. LOL