Is it true the Big 3 kids are getting hammered this year- and by that I mean bad admissions results?

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Anonymous wrote:I have a kid who is a sophomore at a Big 3 and by that let's say I mean St Albans/NCS, GDS, Sidwell or Maret. I have heard through my school grapevine that this year the kids at the elite privates are having terrible results-
especially the unhooked kids. I have heard that they are negatively affected by test-optional, the elimination of AP's and grade deflation.

Ok please tell me your experiences- Big 3 parents only please...I am not interested in hearing how well your W school kid did, or how stupid you think I am for paying private school tuition.

I would simply say to consider the self-interest of the people making these assessments. It can’t possibly be that this was an insanely competitive admissions year and their kids just didn’t make the cut; it has to be that less-worthy kids, whose parents didn’t pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for private school, somehow had an advantage. Come on.

A test optional public school candidate with a GPA that is higher than 4.0 (because of weighting and the fact that the took AP classes) looks really great compared to a big 3 GPA of 3.4 with no APs and a 33 ACT.

I have a public school kid with straight As, very high weighted GPA, insane SAT, 10 AP with 5s and 4s, taking 4 APs currently, solid EC and work experience, NMS semifinalist etc. We are not trying fancy ass colleges in ED/EA, but just 2 safeties, 4 hard target and 1 reach. Our dream college? All 6. Oh, and if he does not get in anywhere for EA/ED, we will apply RD to all the Ivies and other prestigious colleges. Non-hooked. ORM.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a kid who is a sophomore at a Big 3 and by that let's say I mean St Albans/NCS, GDS, Sidwell or Maret. I have heard through my school grapevine that this year the kids at the elite privates are having terrible results-
especially the unhooked kids. I have heard that they are negatively affected by test-optional, the elimination of AP's and grade deflation.

Ok please tell me your experiences- Big 3 parents only please...I am not interested in hearing how well your W school kid did, or how stupid you think I am for paying private school tuition.

To close the loop on this, based on my son's year at STA, college admissions for the Class of 2021 was the best year since I've been tracking this (since C Form). My grapevine says NCS/Sidwell/GDS had similarly strong years. A few observations. Things started off looking bleak as apart from the recruited athletes the ED round was not a good one for many. But ED2 proved fruitful. Also the STA list was not as highly concentrated in a few schools as usual (e.g., 5 Chicago rather than 10; 2 Harvard rather than 6) and a lot of excellent schools not typically on the STA list were represented (UC-Boulder, Alabama, Duke, Lafayette, Richmond, RPI, Denver, Gettysburg, Rollins, Syracuse, Temple, UT, VMI) Here's the final list for those who follow this stuff.

Harvard (multiple), Yale (multiple), Princeton (multiple), Columbia, Dartmouth (a boatload), Cornell (multiple), Alabama, Chicago (lots), Bates (2), Berkeley, Boston College, Bowdoin (3), Colgate (2), UC Boulder, Conn Coll, Denver, Duke, Emory, Georgetown, Gettysburg, Indiana (2), Lafayette, Maryland, McGill, Miami of Ohio, Michigan (multiple), Northeastern, Northwestern, Notre Dame, NYU, Occidental (2), Pomona, Richmond, RIT, Rollins, St. Andrews (multiple), SMU, Syracuse, Temple, Tulane (multiple), UCLA, UNC, UT, UVA, VMI, Wake (multiple), Wash U (multiple), Wesleyan, West Point, Washington and Lee (multiple), Williams, Wisconsin, Xavier.

i think you need a hobby.

This is their hobby.

Hobby? It’s the game of life you Prole.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have a kid who is a sophomore at a Big 3 and by that let's say I mean St Albans/NCS, GDS, Sidwell or Maret. I have heard through my school grapevine that this year the kids at the elite privates are having terrible results-
especially the unhooked kids. I have heard that they are negatively affected by test-optional, the elimination of AP's and grade deflation.

Ok please tell me your experiences- Big 3 parents only please...I am not interested in hearing how well your W school kid did, or how stupid you think I am for paying private school tuition.

To close the loop on this, based on my son's year at STA, college admissions for the Class of 2021 was the best year since I've been tracking this (since C Form). My grapevine says NCS/Sidwell/GDS had similarly strong years. A few observations. Things started off looking bleak as apart from the recruited athletes the ED round was not a good one for many. But ED2 proved fruitful. Also the STA list was not as highly concentrated in a few schools as usual (e.g., 5 Chicago rather than 10; 2 Harvard rather than 6) and a lot of excellent schools not typically on the STA list were represented (UC-Boulder, Alabama, Duke, Lafayette, Richmond, RPI, Denver, Gettysburg, Rollins, Syracuse, Temple, UT, VMI) Here's the final list for those who follow this stuff.

Harvard (multiple), Yale (multiple), Princeton (multiple), Columbia, Dartmouth (a boatload), Cornell (multiple), Alabama, Chicago (lots), Bates (2), Berkeley, Boston College, Bowdoin (3), Colgate (2), UC Boulder, Conn Coll, Denver, Duke, Emory, Georgetown, Gettysburg, Indiana (2), Lafayette, Maryland, McGill, Miami of Ohio, Michigan (multiple), Northeastern, Northwestern, Notre Dame, NYU, Occidental (2), Pomona, Richmond, RIT, Rollins, St. Andrews (multiple), SMU, Syracuse, Temple, Tulane (multiple), UCLA, UNC, UT, UVA, VMI, Wake (multiple), Wash U (multiple), Wesleyan, West Point, Washington and Lee (multiple), Williams, Wisconsin, Xavier.

There is nothing wrong with Denver, Temple, VMI, and you can get a good education there, but "a lot of excellent schools not typically on the STA list" is a BS way of putting it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a kid who is a sophomore at a Big 3 and by that let's say I mean St Albans/NCS, GDS, Sidwell or Maret. I have heard through my school grapevine that this year the kids at the elite privates are having terrible results-
especially the unhooked kids. I have heard that they are negatively affected by test-optional, the elimination of AP's and grade deflation.

Ok please tell me your experiences- Big 3 parents only please...I am not interested in hearing how well your W school kid did, or how stupid you think I am for paying private school tuition.

To close the loop on this, based on my son's year at STA, college admissions for the Class of 2021 was the best year since I've been tracking this (since C Form). My grapevine says NCS/Sidwell/GDS had similarly strong years. A few observations. Things started off looking bleak as apart from the recruited athletes the ED round was not a good one for many. But ED2 proved fruitful. Also the STA list was not as highly concentrated in a few schools as usual (e.g., 5 Chicago rather than 10; 2 Harvard rather than 6) and a lot of excellent schools not typically on the STA list were represented (UC-Boulder, Alabama, Duke, Lafayette, Richmond, RPI, Denver, Gettysburg, Rollins, Syracuse, Temple, UT, VMI) Here's the final list for those who follow this stuff.

Harvard (multiple), Yale (multiple), Princeton (multiple), Columbia, Dartmouth (a boatload), Cornell (multiple), Alabama, Chicago (lots), Bates (2), Berkeley, Boston College, Bowdoin (3), Colgate (2), UC Boulder, Conn Coll, Denver, Duke, Emory, Georgetown, Gettysburg, Indiana (2), Lafayette, Maryland, McGill, Miami of Ohio, Michigan (multiple), Northeastern, Northwestern, Notre Dame, NYU, Occidental (2), Pomona, Richmond, RIT, Rollins, St. Andrews (multiple), SMU, Syracuse, Temple, Tulane (multiple), UCLA, UNC, UT, UVA, VMI, Wake (multiple), Wash U (multiple), Wesleyan, West Point, Washington and Lee (multiple), Williams, Wisconsin, Xavier.

There is nothing wrong with Denver, Temple, VMI, and you can get a good education there, but "a lot of excellent schools not typically on the STA list" is a BS way of putting it.

I have heard that Duke isn't usually a school that takes STA grads. what's the reason there?