ED applicants, please post your school, the result, and your DC's stats

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Williams rejection
35
1590
4.0 | 16 APs w/ post-math classes in Linear Algebra and Calc 3
Applied as Math major
USAMO silver, Math Tutor, Pottery Instructor, Youth City Council, various state Model UN awards, summer research project with professor in stats and urban planning.
DC is now hoping for Princeton, Berkeley, or Uchicago.

Why was he applying to Williams in the first place?

Who said it’s a ‘he’?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see a lot of individual posts, but would love to see everyone's 2024/25 result in one place. Where did you apply, what was the result, and what were DC's stats?

legacy, vip status, governing board, and parents' donor potential matter as well...

Yes, I appreciate OP posts - because they’re helpful to me as well! So thank you for asking.

But, an ED thread answering these questions would be more illuminating:
GPA
SAT
Income?
Legacy?
Feeder school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think stats say anything. It doesn’t tell you what they took or how their grades trended or what their school offered or actually anything about the student at all. 🤣

Actually weighted grades do give you at least some of that information, since they indicate coursework rigor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
nosey nancy here
i want all stats in one place
is my dc worse?

Don't be dumb. I'm trying to make a decision about which school we'll apply to ED next year. Can only choose one, and I'm wondering how ED affects the stats for some of the most common schools people apply to here.

dont be dumber - what works for someone might not work for someone else

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are people answering this? Smdh.

To be helpful to OP.
It’s a stressful process with such a lack of data.
Even naviance and scoir are unreliable because the data is old and doesn’t account for the changing landscape so it helps to get a good picture of what this years’ ED admissions realities are.

How ? How is it helpful. Look at the answers. They are all over the place. If you match the same stats that does not promise you anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Williams rejection
35
1590
4.0 | 16 APs w/ post-math classes in Linear Algebra and Calc 3
Applied as Math major
USAMO silver, Math Tutor, Pottery Instructor, Youth City Council, various state Model UN awards, summer research project with professor in stats and urban planning.
DC is now hoping for Princeton, Berkeley, or Uchicago.

Weird decision of applying to Williams in the first place. You're too good for them.

I feel like every week here people discover that WASP are literally ivy-level students, and it has to be Reiterated over and over again until they eventually just settle with the idea that you’re crazy.

especially Williams. especially for math. but I think that was one person posted several times.

Williams’ math department isn’t even the best amongst LACs

[Anonymous]

For the love of God people, 99.9% of us and our children didn't (and don't) select a college solely based on which has the best program in the universe for our major.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For the love of God people, 99.9% of us and our children didn't (and don't) select a college solely based on which has the best program in the universe for our major.

THIS one million percent.

I can’t imagine my child making a decision - and it’s not a “we” choice but the child’s choice - on where to apply for college based on random strangers on any social media site. Wtaf.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are people answering this? Smdh.

To be helpful to OP.
It’s a stressful process with such a lack of data.
Even naviance and scoir are unreliable because the data is old and doesn’t account for the changing landscape so it helps to get a good picture of what this years’ ED admissions realities are.

How are random data points about strangers helpful?

+1 I'd tell you my kids' but you wont' be impressed with his ED choice anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll bite.

In at Tufts.
4.0 UW/4.5 W
12 APs by graduation
1530 SAT

Do you start every post with this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Williams rejection
35
1590
4.0 | 16 APs w/ post-math classes in Linear Algebra and Calc 3
Applied as Math major
USAMO silver, Math Tutor, Pottery Instructor, Youth City Council, various state Model UN awards, summer research project with professor in stats and urban planning.
DC is now hoping for Princeton, Berkeley, or Uchicago.

I find it hard to believe that someone that really wanted Williams will be equally happy at Berkeley (vs. Dartmouth or Amherst or even Pomona). Talk about a size difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Williams rejection
35
1590
4.0 | 16 APs w/ post-math classes in Linear Algebra and Calc 3
Applied as Math major
USAMO silver, Math Tutor, Pottery Instructor, Youth City Council, various state Model UN awards, summer research project with professor in stats and urban planning.
DC is now hoping for Princeton, Berkeley, or Uchicago.

Why was he applying to Williams in the first place?

Maybe that’s where he wanted to go

a small rural school with no opportunities for an elite level student in math? I’m not seeing the connection at all

Dodged a bullet!

I know plenty of people who studied math at Williams and went on to do their graduate work at prestigious institutions (Harvard, Cornell, MIT). I myself and a mathematician and think highly of Williams as a school for undergraduate education in math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see a lot of individual posts, but would love to see everyone's 2024/25 result in one place. Where did you apply, what was the result, and what were DC's stats?

legacy, vip status, governing board, and parents' donor potential matter as well...

How does an AO tell this? Are these the Z list who’ve been introduced to development office already?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Williams rejection
35
1590
4.0 | 16 APs w/ post-math classes in Linear Algebra and Calc 3
Applied as Math major
USAMO silver, Math Tutor, Pottery Instructor, Youth City Council, various state Model UN awards, summer research project with professor in stats and urban planning.
DC is now hoping for Princeton, Berkeley, or Uchicago.

Weird decision of applying to Williams in the first place. You're too good for them.

Apparently not...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
nosey nancy here
i want all stats in one place
is my dc worse?

Don't be dumb. I'm trying to make a decision about which school we'll apply to ED next year. Can only choose one, and I'm wondering how ED affects the stats for some of the most common schools people apply to here.

You're not getting your answer on DCUM honey.