T25 colleges focused heavily on EC rating?

[Anonymous]

These seem like “standard strong” ECs….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which T25 selective colleges are most highly focused on EC achievement - impact, depth, national recognition?

Kid has tremendous (non-Stem) achievement in one humanities area + congressional internship + co-founder of school club + leadership in student govt + national level awards in a non-recruitable sport. And one more impact-driven local humanitarian activity w/news coverage (dont want to reveal too much).

Along with unique volunteer work for underprivileged population, aligned w/sport.
And another internship.

Which schools score highly for ECs in the review process?

Stanford, I think?
Anyone else?

Any more specifics? Hard to say with this.

[Anonymous]

Looking for more information for this. How does it work exactly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From our private, kids with the “big” national level awards/accolades go to Stanford and Duke.

School CCO basically says don’t waste the early app without that type of tier 1 EC.

Bumping for stanford mom

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The numbers have to be there first - GPA, rigor, test scores, comparative class rank. But if they cross that threshold, the schools that seem to really value ECs from what I've seen:

Stanford
Vanderbilt
Princeton
Rice
Northwestern
Brown
Duke


I have kids at two of the above. And it was definitely the ECs that helped the most.

I have a kid at one of these. He had very mediocre ECs, top stats, applied ED.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These seem like “standard strong” ECs….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The numbers have to be there first - GPA, rigor, test scores, comparative class rank. But if they cross that threshold, the schools that seem to really value ECs from what I've seen:

Stanford
Vanderbilt
Princeton
Rice
Northwestern
Brown
Duke


I have kids at two of the above. And it was definitely the ECs that helped the most.

Found this post. Can you say more about the type/caliber/impact of your kids ECs that helped the most?

[Anonymous]

So many at Stanford:
https://stanfordclubsports.com/

Archery!
Badminton!
Figure Skating!
Horse Polo!

What exactly is Dragon Boat?

These are good ones.

Dragon boat is for the China applicants.


Clearly, you have never done this. It is insanely hard work. And all spots of people try it. But a rowers physique can be a bonus, especially if not an elite rower who is 6’5”. Think of it as a form of rowing for people not in the top 2% for height.

[Anonymous]

This is why that "transferring from HYP" post exists. Crazy parents designing the whole life around reading tea leaves of admissions officers instead building a foundation for a good lifem

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The numbers have to be there first - GPA, rigor, test scores, comparative class rank. But if they cross that threshold, the schools that seem to really value ECs from what I've seen:

Stanford
Vanderbilt
Princeton
Rice
Northwestern
Brown
Duke


I have kids at two of the above. And it was definitely the ECs that helped the most.

Interesting list.
Is it weird that Brown is the only Ivy here?

Every highly selective school strongly values ECs because it's the only way to distinguish the thousands of otherwise identical applicants.

[Anonymous]

"unique volunteer work for underprivileged population, "

If I had a nickel for every kid who founded a nonprofit to volunteer for an underprivileged population, I'd be full pay for college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why that "transferring from HYP" post exists. Crazy parents designing the whole life around reading tea leaves of admissions officers instead building a foundation for a good lifem

Actually no.

It’s more like my kid has really weird niche interests and has gotten a ton of national recognition for it. I want to make sure the “reach” schools that kid is targeting would highly value those achievements. Some schools would just treated it as any other extracurricular achievement which it is not.

Learned the hard way with older child that just shooting darts doesn’t work.
There’s strategy involved.

Btw this is something kid developed on their own. No one in rest of family knows anything about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why that "transferring from HYP" post exists. Crazy parents designing the whole life around reading tea leaves of admissions officers instead building a foundation for a good lifem

Actually no.

It’s more like my kid has really weird niche interests and has gotten a ton of national recognition for it. I want to make sure the “reach” schools that kid is targeting would highly value those achievements. Some schools would just treated it as any other extracurricular achievement which it is not.

Learned the hard way with older child that just shooting darts doesn’t work.
There’s strategy involved.

Btw this is something kid developed on their own. No one in rest of family knows anything about it.

It's so private newspapers are reporting about it. The BS people throw here...

[Anonymous]

Brown cares about caliber and accolades in ECs.

[Anonymous]

Bump for the person looking