NCS college admissions if kid is not a legacy, URM, or athletic recruit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not an NCS parent, but "maxing out" at UChicago is hardly a consolation prize - it is ranked number 6 in the country (for what that's worth, which in OP's world seems to be everything), with an admissions rate of 5.9%. If my kid wanted to go there and was admitted, I would be thrilled.

I think it's an issue when it's the only top 25 school admitting unconnected kids from NCS this year. It's a great admit but it's kind of limiting to say "hey, you have one top 25 choice and it's Chicago". NCS is ending zero kids to most top 25 schools (no duke, Vanderbilt, rice, usc, wash u, notes dame, and on and on and on). It's essentially Chicago or a 40+ school for the very smart but unhooked girls this year.

[Anonymous]

This is so very sad.

[Anonymous]

I looked that that Instagram and I am surprised. The OP is correct that the top college admits - basically top 20, save the Chicago unhooked kids, actually do all have hooks. Also so many lackluster colleges. Tulane, BU, BC seems to be the level and “average” unhooked kids will get into. All great top 50 schools but meh? Also multiple (at least 10percent 6/7 kids) students attending random low ranked schools. It was a bad year for admission with record applicants and many schools not looking at standardized testing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I have stalked all of the private School IG accounts and I actually thought NCS was the most impressive of them all. But maybe I am more realistic about college chances than you.

New poster. The Ivies and Stanford are all legacies/URM/athlete but one. So it's impressive within that context.
it's basically irrelevant if your child is not.
I've also stalked the other schools and I think GDS Sidwell have a decent handful of kids each that are headed to the Ivies without hooks.
That is more impressive in my book.

I am an SFS senior parent, and I have almost no idea about this. How would anyone who isn't associated with the respective classes and schools know, unless you are stalking all of the parents on Linkedin?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools like NCS that deflate grades and don’t weight any grades are finding that a lot of seniors are WL or rejected. This is what you are seeing. The last 2 years kids at schools with high GPAs, tons of APs and lower test scores (that are not submitted) are getting into top 50 colleges they never would have even applied to before. As a result, kids with much lower GPAs (from private schools like NCS) and high test scores are being WL or denied and going to the next tier down schools. It is the reality. OP, with all As your daughter must have a very high GPA so she should do fine if top 50 is the goal.

The colleges know the grading scales at the different schools and thus know for example, what a 3.8 at NCS is as compared to a 4.5 at Whitman. So, no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I looked that that Instagram and I am surprised. The OP is correct that the top college admits - basically top 20, save the Chicago unhooked kids, actually do all have hooks. Also so many lackluster colleges. Tulane, BU, BC seems to be the level and “average” unhooked kids will get into. All great top 50 schools but meh? Also multiple (at least 10percent 6/7 kids) students attending random low ranked schools. It was a bad year for admission with record applicants and many schools not looking at standardized testing.

Tulane, BC and BU were "meh" in 1985.
In 2022, they are fantastic options and very difficult to get into.

Context matters.

And how dare you disparage the achievements of these kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I looked that that Instagram and I am surprised. The OP is correct that the top college admits - basically top 20, save the Chicago unhooked kids, actually do all have hooks. Also so many lackluster colleges. Tulane, BU, BC seems to be the level and “average” unhooked kids will get into. All great top 50 schools but meh? Also multiple (at least 10percent 6/7 kids) students attending random low ranked schools. It was a bad year for admission with record applicants and many schools not looking at standardized testing.

You are so rude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I looked that that Instagram and I am surprised. The OP is correct that the top college admits - basically top 20, save the Chicago unhooked kids, actually do all have hooks. Also so many lackluster colleges. Tulane, BU, BC seems to be the level and “average” unhooked kids will get into. All great top 50 schools but meh? Also multiple (at least 10percent 6/7 kids) students attending random low ranked schools. It was a bad year for admission with record applicants and many schools not looking at standardized testing.

You are so rude.

I think there is an expectation that if a kid does the level of work that is necessary for A's at NCS that she should *at least be in contention* for a college in the tier above Tulane and Boston College. I mean, the school should get at least a couple of kids into schools like Vanderbilt, Rice, Hopkins, Tufts, USC, Northwestern, etc based on academics.
Maybe I am totally off base in 2022.
If you look at the NCS admits, you have the Ivys/Stanford (95% with hooks) and then schools at the level of BC/Tulane/William and Mary. Plus of course the handful of Chicagos. But that's it.
It's just surprising.
NCS takes some of the brightest girls in the DMV and puts them through extreme academic rigor for 4 years. I would hope that girls would be competitive for a top 30 school? Not that they would all get in to the 10-35 schools---but at least SOME? But not this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I looked that that Instagram and I am surprised. The OP is correct that the top college admits - basically top 20, save the Chicago unhooked kids, actually do all have hooks. Also so many lackluster colleges. Tulane, BU, BC seems to be the level and “average” unhooked kids will get into. All great top 50 schools but meh? Also multiple (at least 10percent 6/7 kids) students attending random low ranked schools. It was a bad year for admission with record applicants and many schools not looking at standardized testing.

You are so rude.

I think there is an expectation that if a kid does the level of work that is necessary for A's at NCS that she should *at least be in contention* for a college in the tier above Tulane and Boston College. I mean, the school should get at least a couple of kids into schools like Vanderbilt, Rice, Hopkins, Tufts, USC, Northwestern, etc based on academics.
Maybe I am totally off base in 2022.
If you look at the NCS admits, you have the Ivys/Stanford (95% with hooks) and then schools at the level of BC/Tulane/William and Mary. Plus of course the handful of Chicagos. But that's it.
It's just surprising.
NCS takes some of the brightest girls in the DMV and puts them through extreme academic rigor for 4 years. I would hope that girls would be competitive for a top 30 school? Not that they would all get in to the 10-35 schools---but at least SOME? But not this year.

Hon your kid isn’t getting in any top schools and it will be because of you because these posts are grotesque.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is almost a straight A student in lower high school (a few A minuses). She works really hard for these grades. I've been looking at the college admissions this year and it really seems like you have about 25 girls going ti top colleges and (outside of two girls) ALL are legacy, URM or crew athletes. Then the admissions seem to go off a cliff. thank goodness for u of Chicagj because that seems it be the solo outlier.
I am not looking for an IVY admit (at all) but I'm getting freaked out by the schools that girls outside of the above categories are attending. I won't name names but they're in instagram.

Tell it to my straight. A/a- student.
Did anyone apply their daughter from NCS this year? Where are we looking at?

Op you are a stalker of minor age children and it is creepy. Get a life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is almost a straight A student in lower high school (a few A minuses). She works really hard for these grades. I've been looking at the college admissions this year and it really seems like you have about 25 girls going ti top colleges and (outside of two girls) ALL are legacy, URM or crew athletes. Then the admissions seem to go off a cliff. thank goodness for u of Chicagj because that seems it be the solo outlier.
I am not looking for an IVY admit (at all) but I'm getting freaked out by the schools that girls outside of the above categories are attending. I won't name names but they're in instagram.

Tell it to my straight. A/a- student.
Did anyone apply their daughter from NCS this year? Where are we looking at?

Op you are a stalker of minor age children and it is creepy. Get a life.

Not to mention The fact that they took the time to look up where every single student was going to college and determine what category they should be in a URM, hook, etc. I don’t think it’s in NCS parent it might be an Ncs girl or someone from another school

[Anonymous]

There’s a set of genteel liberal arts schools that I see kids going to from other DC privates and publics that I was surprised not to see on the NCS list. Schools like

Vassar
Oberlin
Smith
Bryn Mawr
Sarah Lawrence
Wesleyan
Macalester
Lewis & Clark

Plausibly after attending NCS for all those years, these kids are opting for the big state schools over the genteel privates.

The other category I see around here a lot that seems underrepresented at NCS are the foreign schools, like Toronto, McGill, and St. Andrews in Scotland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Better tell your daughter to get started rowing

They don't allow kids on the team after 9th.

Then take up rowing at TBC + get recruited that way thru summer + fall rowing. I know several girls who did that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I looked that that Instagram and I am surprised. The OP is correct that the top college admits - basically top 20, save the Chicago unhooked kids, actually do all have hooks. Also so many lackluster colleges. Tulane, BU, BC seems to be the level and “average” unhooked kids will get into. All great top 50 schools but meh? Also multiple (at least 10percent 6/7 kids) students attending random low ranked schools. It was a bad year for admission with record applicants and many schools not looking at standardized testing.

You are so rude.

I think there is an expectation that if a kid does the level of work that is necessary for A's at NCS that she should *at least be in contention* for a college in the tier above Tulane and Boston College. I mean, the school should get at least a couple of kids into schools like Vanderbilt, Rice, Hopkins, Tufts, USC, Northwestern, etc based on academics.
Maybe I am totally off base in 2022.
If you look at the NCS admits, you have the Ivys/Stanford (95% with hooks) and then schools at the level of BC/Tulane/William and Mary. Plus of course the handful of Chicagos. But that's it.
It's just surprising.
NCS takes some of the brightest girls in the DMV and puts them through extreme academic rigor for 4 years. I would hope that girls would be competitive for a top 30 school? Not that they would all get in to the 10-35 schools---but at least SOME? But not this year.

Did anyone (PP?) inform the colleges of this expectation? Really, you must let them know. I am sure it’s all just a terrible misunderstanding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I looked that that Instagram and I am surprised. The OP is correct that the top college admits - basically top 20, save the Chicago unhooked kids, actually do all have hooks. Also so many lackluster colleges. Tulane, BU, BC seems to be the level and “average” unhooked kids will get into. All great top 50 schools but meh? Also multiple (at least 10percent 6/7 kids) students attending random low ranked schools. It was a bad year for admission with record applicants and many schools not looking at standardized testing.

You are so rude.

I think there is an expectation that if a kid does the level of work that is necessary for A's at NCS that she should *at least be in contention* for a college in the tier above Tulane and Boston College. I mean, the school should get at least a couple of kids into schools like Vanderbilt, Rice, Hopkins, Tufts, USC, Northwestern, etc based on academics.
Maybe I am totally off base in 2022.
If you look at the NCS admits, you have the Ivys/Stanford (95% with hooks) and then schools at the level of BC/Tulane/William and Mary. Plus of course the handful of Chicagos. But that's it.
It's just surprising.
NCS takes some of the brightest girls in the DMV and puts them through extreme academic rigor for 4 years. I would hope that girls would be competitive for a top 30 school? Not that they would all get in to the 10-35 schools---but at least SOME? But not this year.

Hon your kid isn’t getting in any top schools and it will be because of you because these posts are grotesque.

The pp is just being a realist. No one is disparaging these kids. I’m sure the kids are awesome and amazing. Just like all kids.