Schools with straightforward admissions

[Anonymous]

Most schools with acceptance rates over 50% will take a strong kid with no big red flags. Strong being 3.5+ GPA, 1250+ SAT, regular ECs. Red flags would be academic honesty or disciplinary violations and terrible essays/interview.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most schools with acceptance rates over 50% will take a strong kid with no big red flags. Strong being 3.5+ GPA, 1250+ SAT, regular ECs. Red flags would be academic honesty or disciplinary violations and terrible essays/interview.

I think what took me a minute was realizing that those numbers are just thresholds, and these schools are also excellent options for 4.0, 1500+ students with regular ECs.

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Anonymous wrote:in canada, but consider mcgill - straightforward admissions by numbers.

All Canadian schools do this.

almost all colleges globally do this.

Yes, the US's admissions process is more about societal engineering than academic qualifications.

Stop being bitter.
Admit you played the wrong game and lost and move on. You will do better for your other kids.

I suggest listening to Lee coffin‘s podcast. Today was the conclusion of season 7 and they both talked so poignantly about one current senior’s essay that they remembered about pancakes made by his mother. They said they will never remember the details of any random research that kids drone on and on about, but they remember the essays that shed insight into who the applicants are as human beings, what they value, and what they will, most importantly, bring to the community - outside of the classroom.

Who on earth listens to podcasts about this?

Most educated parents without expensive private counseling. And we get great results.
But hey, you do you.

[Anonymous]

I've posted this before, but Dartmouth is the one selective school that really admits based on stats from our HS. There's a bright x/y line with grades and test scores. Georgetown also does this but there are outliers. Dartmouth, no outliers. You get those stats, youre in.

HYP are different - reject top kids, take other strong but not top kids. They really must look at the file

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Anonymous wrote:I've posted this before, but Dartmouth is the one selective school that really admits based on stats from our HS. There's a bright x/y line with grades and test scores. Georgetown also does this but there are outliers. Dartmouth, no outliers. You get those stats, youre in.

HYP are different - reject top kids, take other strong but not top kids. They really must look at the file

Mind giving the stats and the high school? Or at least the type of high school?

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Anonymous wrote:I've posted this before, but Dartmouth is the one selective school that really admits based on stats from our HS. There's a bright x/y line with grades and test scores. Georgetown also does this but there are outliers. Dartmouth, no outliers. You get those stats, youre in.

HYP are different - reject top kids, take other strong but not top kids. They really must look at the file

Mind giving the stats and the high school? Or at least the type of high school?

Same for our private & D.
Top stats - tippy top; love high scores (35+). Loves outdoorsy kids who have a kind of vibe that matches D.

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Anonymous wrote:in canada, but consider mcgill - straightforward admissions by numbers.

All Canadian schools do this.

almost all colleges globally do this.

Yes, the US's admissions process is more about societal engineering than academic qualifications.

Stop being bitter.
Admit you played the wrong game and lost and move on. You will do better for your other kids.

I suggest listening to Lee coffin‘s podcast. Today was the conclusion of season 7 and they both talked so poignantly about one current senior’s essay that they remembered about pancakes made by his mother. They said they will never remember the details of any random research that kids drone on and on about, but they remember the essays that shed insight into who the applicants are as human beings, what they value, and what they will, most importantly, bring to the community - outside of the classroom.

Who on earth listens to podcasts about this?

Not me! I prefer the advice of anonymous blowhards on DCUM to that of actual admissions officers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:in canada, but consider mcgill - straightforward admissions by numbers.

All Canadian schools do this.

almost all colleges globally do this.

Yes, the US's admissions process is more about societal engineering than academic qualifications.

Stop being bitter.
Admit you played the wrong game and lost and move on. You will do better for your other kids.

I suggest listening to Lee coffin‘s podcast. Today was the conclusion of season 7 and they both talked so poignantly about one current senior’s essay that they remembered about pancakes made by his mother. They said they will never remember the details of any random research that kids drone on and on about, but they remember the essays that shed insight into who the applicants are as human beings, what they value, and what they will, most importantly, bring to the community - outside of the classroom.

Who on earth listens to podcasts about this?

Not me! I prefer the advice of anonymous blowhards on DCUM to that of actual admissions officers.

lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would have said places like Colorado, but that AI kid was denied. LOL.

Please check out that AI kid's terrible essay and you will understand. Just don't let your kid write an outlier and possibly red flag essay like that and you'll be fine.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:in canada, but consider mcgill - straightforward admissions by numbers.

All Canadian schools do this.

almost all colleges globally do this.

Yes, the US's admissions process is more about societal engineering than academic qualifications.

Stop being bitter.
Admit you played the wrong game and lost and move on. You will do better for your other kids.

I suggest listening to Lee coffin‘s podcast. Today was the conclusion of season 7 and they both talked so poignantly about one current senior’s essay that they remembered about pancakes made by his mother. They said they will never remember the details of any random research that kids drone on and on about, but they remember the essays that shed insight into who the applicants are as human beings, what they value, and what they will, most importantly, bring to the community - outside of the classroom.

OMG how can you believe this BS.

That’s what they want! Give it to them… My kid did and is now headed to a T10.

It cannot possibly compensate them for the woeful parenting that you gave them. And this is also why we have such excellent sheep leading the country straight into the toilet.

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Anonymous wrote:in canada, but consider mcgill - straightforward admissions by numbers.

All Canadian schools do this.

almost all colleges globally do this.

Yes, the US's admissions process is more about societal engineering than academic qualifications.

Most U.S. colleges are significantly smaller than schools abroad, which tend to have space for anyone who is qualified. If you are only accepting a class of 500, you are going to have to reject thousands of otherwise qualified applicants. What do you suggest the 4,000+ colleges each do -- only accept the same 500 perfect-score kids?

McGill: 39,000 students
Oxford and Cambridge: 48,595 between them
The top 10 Universities in France each have between 23K and 72K students (except 1)

And all of these countries have significantly smaller populations than the U.S. which has about 300 million more people and lets anyone apply to college. Of course the process has to be different.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:in canada, but consider mcgill - straightforward admissions by numbers.

All Canadian schools do this.

almost all colleges globally do this.

Yes, the US's admissions process is more about societal engineering than academic qualifications.

Most U.S. colleges are significantly smaller than schools abroad, which tend to have space for anyone who is qualified. If you are only accepting a class of 500, you are going to have to reject thousands of otherwise qualified applicants. What do you suggest the 4,000+ colleges each do -- only accept the same 500 perfect-score kids?

McGill: 39,000 students
Oxford and Cambridge: 48,595 between them
The top 10 Universities in France each have between 23K and 72K students (except 1)

And all of these countries have significantly smaller populations than the U.S. which has about 300 million more people and lets anyone apply to college. Of course the process has to be different.

I don’t understand this comment.

Like 3900 US colleges have acceptance rates over 75% and 3800 over 90%.

The other countries have larger colleges, but dramatically fewer.

Also, private colleges are rare to non-existent internationally…none of the top international colleges are private.

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Why do I feel like the OP of this thread is the same as the OP of the thread they're referencing? Anyways, if you're full pay, you can get into any public OOS with an acceptance rate 60%+. You may not get into the engineering or business schools, but their general arts & sciences school is not going to reject your high stats kid.

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Anonymous wrote:I would have said places like Colorado, but that AI kid was denied. LOL.

Please check out that AI kid's terrible essay and you will understand. Just don't let your kid write an outlier and possibly red flag essay like that and you'll be fine.

What are you talking about?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:in canada, but consider mcgill - straightforward admissions by numbers.

All Canadian schools do this.

almost all colleges globally do this.

Yes, the US's admissions process is more about societal engineering than academic qualifications.

Most U.S. colleges are significantly smaller than schools abroad, which tend to have space for anyone who is qualified. If you are only accepting a class of 500, you are going to have to reject thousands of otherwise qualified applicants. What do you suggest the 4,000+ colleges each do -- only accept the same 500 perfect-score kids?

McGill: 39,000 students
Oxford and Cambridge: 48,595 between them
The top 10 Universities in France each have between 23K and 72K students (except 1)

And all of these countries have significantly smaller populations than the U.S. which has about 300 million more people and lets anyone apply to college. Of course the process has to be different.

I don’t understand this comment.

Like 3900 US colleges have acceptance rates over 75% and 3800 over 90%.

The other countries have larger colleges, but dramatically fewer.

Also, private colleges are rare to non-existent internationally…none of the top international colleges are private.

The "social engineering" poster seems to be referring to low admissions colleges (probably only Ivies too), which are almost universally small and private.