Where do top students who got rejected early from Ivy/T10 land?

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Anonymous wrote:I am talking about applicants who have the academic stats (1500+, 4.0+, high rigor) but didn't make the cut. Unhooked. What typically happens to them?

At our school many ED2 to U Chicago, Hopkins if pre med or Tufts/Bowdoin/Wesleyan if they want more of a LAC.

All fantastic options

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am talking about applicants who have the academic stats (1500+, 4.0+, high rigor) but didn't make the cut. Unhooked. What typically happens to them?

At our school many ED2 to U Chicago, Hopkins if pre med or Tufts/Bowdoin/Wesleyan if they want more of a LAC.

All fantastic options

As if they will have the option.

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Bucknell if they’re really stupid.

Otherwise, great colleges that are the top in the United States.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine - UVA

Mine too. Now at Oxford for grad work. Worked out amazingly well

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Usually state schools if unhooked. Emory for the strivers.

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Anonymous wrote:In my house: another Ivy or T10. Accepted RD everywhere else.

Glad to hear it, OP!

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Anonymous wrote:Bucknell if they’re really stupid.

Otherwise, great colleges that are the top in the United States.

The hateful comment isn't necessary.

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Anonymous wrote:I am talking about applicants who have the academic stats (1500+, 4.0+, high rigor) but didn't make the cut. Unhooked. What typically happens to them?

If you say 1500+ I'm likely to think you mean like 1510-1530

UVA is full of kids with those sort of stats.

Cornell has a lot.

It would take a bit of luck to get Ivy+

T11-T50

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am talking about applicants who have the academic stats (1500+, 4.0+, high rigor) but didn't make the cut. Unhooked. What typically happens to them?

At our school many ED2 to U Chicago, Hopkins if pre med or Tufts/Bowdoin/Wesleyan if they want more of a LAC.

they aren't getting into Chicago or Hopkins for ED 2 if unhooked. If anything, these are harder than many ivies ED1.

This just isn’t true, since the admitted students are almost exclusively Ivy+ rejects.

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Mine is going to Tulane. Deferred from 3 Ivies.

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How can you be deferred from 3 Ivys in December??????

Mine was rejected at this ED Ivy. Accepted at U of Edinburgh. He is going there.

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Anonymous wrote:How can you be deferred from 3 Ivys in December??????

Mine was rejected at this ED Ivy. Accepted at U of Edinburgh. He is going there.

Scotland is gorgeous. Start looking for housing immediately!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am talking about applicants who have the academic stats (1500+, 4.0+, high rigor) but didn't make the cut. Unhooked. What typically happens to them?

At our school many ED2 to U Chicago, Hopkins if pre med or Tufts/Bowdoin/Wesleyan if they want more of a LAC.

they aren't getting into Chicago or Hopkins for ED 2 if unhooked. If anything, these are harder than many ivies ED1.

This just isn’t true, since the admitted students are almost exclusively Ivy+ rejects.

You're kind of dumb - ED2 at Hopkins and Chicago is far more selective than ED 1 at ivies.

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Unless your DC is way outside the ballpark in terms of stats, I would say ED results at very selective schools don't necessarily define future results.

Our DS got rejected Duke ED with 1570/4.0UW/high course rigor/solid ECs. In regular round was accepted to multiple T10s and other great schools, and now is happily at Penn. Of course would have preferred getting a yes from his dream school during ED, but he's made great friends at Penn and has mostly forgotten Duke at this point.

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Anonymous wrote:I am talking about applicants who have the academic stats (1500+, 4.0+, high rigor) but didn't make the cut. Unhooked. What typically happens to them?

It's why ED II exists at highly selective schools. It's specifically there to get those extraordinary students who for whatever reason didn't get into MIT or Stanford in the first round. ED II is a very different thing than ED I. Schools like Duke, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, and Chicago are looking for the great students who got shut out of HYPSM in SCEA or ED. And really, no one else in the ED II round.

And as always, GPA and test scores aren't enough. Every T20 school can fill their classes ten time over with perfect grades and test scores. But the highly selective ED II schools want that second look at the gifted students.

Over and over again with the lies. Less than 5,000 applicants in any admissions cycle have a perfect ACT or SAT score.

10x the aggregate T20 freshman class is over 600,000 seats.

So … why? Why do you propagate this lie that there are hundreds of thousands of kids with perfect test scores?

It's true that the parent poster exaggerated but their overall point makes sense. Most colleges don't seem to distinguish between 1600 and scores in the mid to high 1500s. From that perspective, the pool of applicants is pretty large.