williams, amherst, swarthmore, pomona, bowdoin, haverford decisions today

[Anonymous]

PP here. Was trying to add, … but Pomona overshot by a lot here.

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Anonymous wrote:Williams is tiny and half the kids there are legacies.

Makes me feel a little better. I just feel so bad for DD.

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1400 SAT, 3.9 uw/4.6w, 4 yr varsity athlete with leadership, 7 APs - 6 more in progress, MCPS, URM, did not apply early admission or early action for any school

Amherst - no
Rochester - yes with Dean's scholarship
Waiting for UMDCP, Lehigh, Tufts, two Ivies (reach but legacy at one and expressed sports recruitment at other)

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Anonymous wrote:1500+ SAT all As at highly regarded private (school doesn’t offer AP classes but DC took 4 and got 4s and 5s). Varsity sport, leadership in ECs. Legacy - rejected. Waitlisted at all others. No acceptances today. Brutal.

If your kid is wsitlisted at all the other schools they applied to, it seems they weren't realistic.

How can the private be highly regarded but offer no APs?? Something doesn’t make sense here.

Some of the DC/MD privates do not offer "AP"courses but have created their own curricula to teach the same materials that should be covered by the AP Exams. Because the privates do not pay the College Board for the materials, they cannot call the course "AP ___". As students are not required to take College Board approved/trademarked AP courses to take the AP exams, it's commons for students at the privates to take the AP exams, and they usually do much better on the exams than the public school students who were taught using the official Colllege Board materials. I was told that St. Albans' AP AB Cal exam average is a 4.5; the average is a 2 at one of the MCPS' W schools.

In fact, St. Albans and Landon got into a p--- match with the College Board a couple of years ago. College Board threatened to sue the DC/MD privates because it couldn't believe that the privates' students were doing so well on the exams without having stolen College Board's materials. Essentially, College Board wanted money.

At Whitman (MCPS), 53 students earned 5s on the BC calc exam. Four earned a score of 2. Maybe the privates were taking AB?

[Anonymous]

Not PP, but text says "AP AB Cal".

[Anonymous]

Son accepted at Swarthmore and University of Rochester today .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1500+ SAT all As at highly regarded private (school doesn’t offer AP classes but DC took 4 and got 4s and 5s). Varsity sport, leadership in ECs. Legacy - rejected. Waitlisted at all others. No acceptances today. Brutal.

With such a low admit rate it’s TRULY a crapshoot unless you have a URM, first gen or recruited athlete hook. I hope your kid knew that, wasn’t expecting it, and doesn’t feel bad!

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Anonymous wrote:Williams is tiny and half the kids there are legacies.

Makes me feel a little better. I just feel so bad for DD.

Half the kids there are NOT legacies. I know in 2017, 7% of the accepted students were legacies. In fact the year DC got into Williams the 2 kids admitted from their school to Williams were both AMHERST legacies.

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Anonymous wrote:1500+ SAT all As at highly regarded private (school doesn’t offer AP classes but DC took 4 and got 4s and 5s). Varsity sport, leadership in ECs. Legacy - rejected. Waitlisted at all others. No acceptances today. Brutal.

Similar to mine. 1560 SAT, 3.98UW, 4.85W, top magnet, 5s on APs, NMF, actor who won awards and has worked professionally, capt of sports team, national award, state orch, multiple regional awards, club pres, decent service. Rejected from Williams.

You guys sound surprised. They rejected 93% of applicants.

Your children sound amazing, they honestly do, but that does not mean all doors will be open to then. Adjust your attitude.

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white dd 1550, 4.0 (private school) national award in EC sport, is sporty (polo) and arty (has a portfolio) and academic

Pomona-denied
Haverford- WL
Scripps-WL
Bowdoin-WL
but ACCEPTED UCLA

and Santa Clara - accepted with $11k + merit for 4 years


It's all become a crapshoot if you are white

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1400 SAT, 3.9 uw/4.6w, 4 yr varsity athlete with leadership, 7 APs - 6 more in progress, MCPS, URM, did not apply early admission or early action for any school

Amherst - no
Rochester - yes with Dean's scholarship
Waiting for UMDCP, Lehigh, Tufts, two Ivies (reach but legacy at one and expressed sports recruitment at other)

The URM surely helped but hat score is still a bit low and the GPA bar is higher in MCPS since they bump more classes (music, languages etc). But Rochester and Maryland are great schools!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: white dd 1550, 4.0 (private school) national award in EC sport, is sporty (polo) and arty (has a portfolio) and academic

Pomona-denied
Haverford- WL
Scripps-WL
Bowdoin-WL
but ACCEPTED UCLA

and Santa Clara - accepted with $11k + merit for 4 years


It's all become a crapshoot if you are white

WOW! WL at Scripps with those stats is really unbelievable...but maybe polo is just not that compelling for SLACs.

Congrats on UCLA...that's terrific.

Also, try to refrain from the race comments...it's ugly, unnecessary and detracts from your impressive DD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: white dd 1550, 4.0 (private school) national award in EC sport, is sporty (polo) and arty (has a portfolio) and academic

Pomona-denied
Haverford- WL
Scripps-WL
Bowdoin-WL
but ACCEPTED UCLA

and Santa Clara - accepted with $11k + merit for 4 years


It's all become a crapshoot if you are white

WOW! WL at Scripps with those stats is really unbelievable...but maybe polo is just not that compelling for SLACs.

Congrats on UCLA...that's terrific.

Also, try to refrain from the race comments...it's ugly, unnecessary and detracts from your impressive DD.

Yes, so gross PP and frankly clueless. It's a crapshoot for everybody. Your DD has great options and the schools where she was shut out are reaches for everybody, just by virtue of the fact that they reject 90+% of all applicants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: white dd 1550, 4.0 (private school) national award in EC sport, is sporty (polo) and arty (has a portfolio) and academic

Pomona-denied
Haverford- WL
Scripps-WL
Bowdoin-WL
but ACCEPTED UCLA

and Santa Clara - accepted with $11k + merit for 4 years


It's all become a crapshoot if you are white

White grievance. Serious stuff.

Congrats?

[Anonymous]

I’m reading Reddit right now and all these kids who feel their world is over. They worked incredibly hard just to end up in many cases at places as other peers without these insane stats. They are already lamenting how they should have enjoyed high school more. This makes me so sad and nervous about this process in the near future when my kids go through it.