Big 3 (or thereabouts) College Results - Class of 2021

[Anonymous]

As the parent of multiple kids who've gone thru this process, every year people are shocked and appalled both by the great students who are rejected/deferred early and the inexplicable admission of clearly academically underqualified kids. It sucks, but it has been happening every year for the past decade at every school around here. Many of the great students end up at one of their top choices in the spring. No school does significantly better or worse anymore within its peer group based on its own merits. They're all lumped together by demographics and geography by the colleges.
Bottom line, don't think believe that this year is particularly "brutal". It's just that people have had their eyes opened to the process.

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Anonymous wrote:I interviewed a kid from the "Big 3" for my HYPS alma mater and I'm sad she got deferred. She seemed great!

Did she tell you she got deferred or does the school tell you that?

The school tells me. You can login to your alumni reviewer portal and check on the status of kids you’ve interviewed. They ask you to contact anyone who got in to say congrats; they ask you not to contact anyone who didn’t. Anyways, I just really liked this kid — one of the best two I’ve interviewed in about 10 years — so I was disappointed she ended up deferred. No doubt she’ll get in somewhere great though.

To the interviewer -- if you happen to be the woman who interviewed my daughter, she loved talking to you, too. She is disappointed, but still holding out hope that she'll get better news during the regular decision round. Thank you for rooting for her!

Statistically, I’m sure it’s someone else. But now I’m curious: Can you tell me anything about the interview/your daughter/anything I said during the interview that would allow me to know if it was her?

No Dog in this ...but my vote is the interviewer / alum call the AD and says, " this is the most outstanding kid I have interviewed in 10 years and I am so taken back that she was deferred that I am questioning whether my Alma Mater still holds out the same values and ethos when I was a student.... I am seriously considering no longer donating...

fingers crossed that gets her IN

Alum, do NOT do this, and if anyone affiliated with any private or public school asks you to do this, report their conduct to your admissions contact immediately.

PPP clearly has NO understanding of how admissions works. No decent self-respecting alum would have the stupidity to make that kind of threat. I have interviewed many students for two HYP schools. Many outstanding and incredible kids I've interviewed have been flat-out rejected. It's disappointing, but I know that the admissions staff are the only people who have knowledge of the entire applicant pool. They have to make tough decisions to create a class. It's not about the individual student. Their job is tough enough without my making it harder through moronic threats.

Further evidence that you “interviews” a) take yourselves far too seriously; b) don’t recognize written sarcasm and attempts at humor when you see them; snd c) actually believe that your little session at Starbucks has any impact whatsoever on whether or not a candidate is admitted.

Don’t you realize that your vaunted Ivy lets you play interviewer to keep you happy and connected, so the $$ keep coming?

It’s as if the alumni interview doesn’t matter at all...

The interviews can help weed out at least some of the freak shows, which in itself can be valuable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As the parent of multiple kids who've gone thru this process, every year people are shocked and appalled both by the great students who are rejected/deferred early and the inexplicable admission of clearly academically underqualified kids. It sucks, but it has been happening every year for the past decade at every school around here. Many of the great students end up at one of their top choices in the spring. No school does significantly better or worse anymore within its peer group based on its own merits. They're all lumped together by demographics and geography by the colleges.
Bottom line, don't think believe that this year is particularly "brutal". It's just that people have had their eyes opened to the process.

[Anonymous]

This sounds likely.

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What are the "Big 3?"

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Anonymous wrote:What are the "Big 3?"

depends on who you ask

[Anonymous]

STA/NCS/Sidwell
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Cathedral schools/Sidwell/GDS

[Anonymous]

I think this thread is terrible. As if it isn't hard enough to apply and be rejected from a college. Now you are the subject of gossip of a bunch of competitive grown ass adults.

It's messed up.

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Anonymous wrote:Creative types for content will do well. My friend just sold his creative business for 7.5 billion. The engineers got paid salaries.

Bloomberg was an electrical engineer. So was my father who sold his computer programming business for a chuck of change in the 90’s. And even if an engineer who works at JPL is has a salary position they might love their job and feel satisfied with what they do. More than most people can say...

Both of these comments are equally asinine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this thread is terrible. As if it isn't hard enough to apply and be rejected from a college. Now you are the subject of gossip of a bunch of competitive grown ass adults.

It's messed up.

Absolutely messed up. It makes me anxious just thinking about being 17 and seeing middle aged parents freaking out about published lists of where my friends and I did or didn’t get in to college.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think this thread is terrible. As if it isn't hard enough to apply and be rejected from a college. Now you are the subject of gossip of a bunch of competitive grown ass adults.

It's messed up.

Absolutely messed up. It makes me anxious just thinking about being 17 and seeing middle aged parents freaking out about published lists of where my friends and I did or didn’t get in to college.

It makes me anxious watching my 17 year old watch tik toks of her classmates freaking out, screaming, etc. over college admissions results. Why do they have to put this on tik tok?

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Anonymous wrote:I think this thread is terrible. As if it isn't hard enough to apply and be rejected from a college. Now you are the subject of gossip of a bunch of competitive grown ass adults.

It's messed up.

Absolutely messed up. It makes me anxious just thinking about being 17 and seeing middle aged parents freaking out about published lists of where my friends and I did or didn’t get in to college.

It makes me anxious watching my 17 year old watch tik toks of her classmates freaking out, screaming, etc. over college admissions results. Why do they have to put this on tik tok?

Because like every other aspect of this generation’s life, it must be lived in public. All of it- the good, bad and ugly.

[Anonymous]

In a normal year, 75% percent of the sta class ends up EA or ED at Ivies, Chicago, Tulane, Wake and top SLACs. How is it shaping up this year? That’ll be the canary in the coal mine.

[Anonymous]

No way 75% of the class is done with college admissions by December.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As the parent of multiple kids who've gone thru this process, every year people are shocked and appalled both by the great students who are rejected/deferred early and the inexplicable admission of clearly academically underqualified kids. It sucks, but it has been happening every year for the past decade at every school around here. Many of the great students end up at one of their top choices in the spring. No school does significantly better or worse anymore within its peer group based on its own merits. They're all lumped together by demographics and geography by the colleges.
Bottom line, don't think believe that this year is particularly "brutal". It's just that people have had their eyes opened to the process.

Do you have a kid applying colleges this year?