Admission to Selective Colleges in 1989

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Graduate in 2000, 4.45 weighted GPA, 1350 SAT, 6 APs (two 4's, four 5's including Calculus), middling public HS in California that sent kids almost exclusively to community college or the local CalState

Admits: NYU, BU, Syracuse, UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego

Waitlisted (never got off): Columbia, UC Berkeley

I didn't get one straight rejection. Went to NYU and would likely not get in today.

23 years later and your remember all of your AP exam scores. Yeah, you're DCUM all right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is going to Georgetown and I remember thinking, wow, it is harder to get into Georgetown today (12% acceptance rate) than it was to get into Harvard in 1987 (the year I applied). Back then, I think the Harvard acceptance rate was around 16%.

None of us would ever get into our alma maters today, folks....!

Thanks for letting us know you went to Harvard. Now how about getting over yourself?

PP never clearly stated that they went to Harvard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is going to Georgetown and I remember thinking, wow, it is harder to get into Georgetown today (12% acceptance rate) than it was to get into Harvard in 1987 (the year I applied). Back then, I think the Harvard acceptance rate was around 16%.

None of us would ever get into our alma maters today, folks....!

Thanks for letting us know you went to Harvard. Now how about getting over yourself?

PP never clearly stated that they went to Harvard.

Oh, please. That was the whole intent of the post. Of course she did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is going to Georgetown and I remember thinking, wow, it is harder to get into Georgetown today (12% acceptance rate) than it was to get into Harvard in 1987 (the year I applied). Back then, I think the Harvard acceptance rate was around 16%.

None of us would ever get into our alma maters today, folks....!

Thanks for letting us know you went to Harvard. Now how about getting over yourself?

PP never clearly stated that they went to Harvard.

Oh, please. That was the whole intent of the post. Of course she did.

Good for them.

[Anonymous]

I got a 1350 on the SAT in 1989, which was good enough to get me into Williams.

Any idea what a 1350 is worth now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is going to Georgetown and I remember thinking, wow, it is harder to get into Georgetown today (12% acceptance rate) than it was to get into Harvard in 1987 (the year I applied). Back then, I think the Harvard acceptance rate was around 16%.

None of us would ever get into our alma maters today, folks....!

Thanks for letting us know you went to Harvard. Now how about getting over yourself?

PP never clearly stated that they went to Harvard.

Oh, please. That was the whole intent of the post. Of course she did.

And the possibility that they did go to Harvard bothers you because... um.... why exactly? I think you are missing the point here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got a 1350 on the SAT in 1989, which was good enough to get me into Williams.

Any idea what a 1350 is worth now?

JMU/GMU

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is going to Georgetown and I remember thinking, wow, it is harder to get into Georgetown today (12% acceptance rate) than it was to get into Harvard in 1987 (the year I applied). Back then, I think the Harvard acceptance rate was around 16%.

None of us would ever get into our alma maters today, folks....!

Thanks for letting us know you went to Harvard. Now how about getting over yourself?

Get those chips off your shoulder, PP. I'm sorry it's so upsetting to you that a stranger may have gotten into Harvard almost four decades years ago.

The earlier poster is just commenting on how much EASIER it was to get into Harvard then than it is to get into many lower ranked schools today. Don't be a jerk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Globalization (ie., competition from well-to-do foreign students), more of the middle and working classes attending college, more women in college, etc.

The number of universities and number of seats in elite colleges have not kept up with the rising supply of students.

Were there really fewer women in college in 1989? I started college just a few years after that--1993, and from my perspective women were just as likely to go to college as men. I actually still have a copy of the student newspaper where they listed what each senior was doing after graduation (specific college, military, work, etc.) I guess I could go look and count up for sure.

I graduated from Wake Forest in 1992. It was the 50 years of women at Wake celebration and the first time the incoming class had more women than men. women. It’s about 55% women now. Do with that what you will.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got a 1350 on the SAT in 1989, which was good enough to get me into Williams.

Any idea what a 1350 is worth now?

JMU/GMU

I’m asking for a raw number, since the test has been revised so many times since 1989.

[Anonymous]

1989 was already hard to get into college.

From what I was told after Vietnam war is second half of 1970s was pretty easy.

During Vietnam war tons went to college just to avoid getting drafted. In 1980s we got the international students and of course Wall Street in 1980s everyone wanted to go to business school.

Also computer applications made it much harder. When I applied in 1979 all applications were hardcopy. Hand written essays with colleges all asking for different essays. Teacher referrals and references were all hand written. Send direct from teacher to school. Needed to do envelope on typewriter, get check for application, ride bike post office.

And college tours parents barely took you. No videos to look at schools. Get a reference book on library with a blurb on each college.

Given all these issues way less applied to multiple colleges. Add in 40-50 years ago most parents did not have college degrees they were not much help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is going to Georgetown and I remember thinking, wow, it is harder to get into Georgetown today (12% acceptance rate) than it was to get into Harvard in 1987 (the year I applied). Back then, I think the Harvard acceptance rate was around 16%.

None of us would ever get into our alma maters today, folks....!

Thanks for letting us know you went to Harvard. Now how about getting over yourself?

Get those chips off your shoulder, PP. I'm sorry it's so upsetting to you that a stranger may have gotten into Harvard almost four decades years ago.

The earlier poster is just commenting on how much EASIER it was to get into Harvard then than it is to get into many lower ranked schools today. Don't be a jerk.

Getting into Harvard way back was more you were rich with college educated parents. My HS it was the wealthy Jewish kids whose Dads were Doctors and Lawyers went. The Irish, Italian kids whose Dad was a cop or mechanic went to school closest to house.

My friend he was Ivy material. His dad made him go local as he got 100 percent free ride and his older brother went there so he could drive him.

[Anonymous]

1988: local MCPS high school. 3.9 GPA, there was no weighting then. Hardest humanities and science but not math, no calculus. No AP tests. 1500 SAT. Not great extracurriculars, just music really. Great essays.
Rejected: Harvard, Princeton. WL, Amherst. In: Oberlin, Chicago, Bowdoin, Williams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In 1989 I got rejected from Yale, Princeton and Williams with a straight A average, 1390 SAT and at top prep school. So yes, it was tough then too.

The SAT used a 2400 point scale in 1989 and that would be equivalent to a 1000 on the current sat

you’re not smart enough to create a believable lie

Oof. You’re wrong and I’m embarrassed for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got a 1350 on the SAT in 1989, which was good enough to get me into Williams.

Any idea what a 1350 is worth now?

Probably 80-100 points higher in today’s test

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/05/11/why-your-new-sat-score-is-not-as-strong-as-you-think-it-is/