If your high-scorer didn't get in anywhere: where are they now?

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Syracuse. And very happy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The world has changed - State Schools are harder to get into. Who would've thought VA Tech and UVA is not where a good percentage of a VA HS went to.

The hard to get into schools of ole days are not that hard: I was surprised to see Rensselaer is like 60% it was 20-30% just 10 - 15 years ago. Vassar is getting dragged through the mud on this forum - that used to be hard to get into.

And easier schools are now hard: Swarthmore.why? besides the dukakis bump - anything else?

Some are severely under valued.
if Bryn Mawr College has a 98% medical school acceptance rate - why is the acceptance rate to the college only 33%. I thought medical school as impossible to get into these days. If my kid said medical school - I'm thinking this school for Bachelors. https://www.brynmawr.edu/postbac/about-program/director#:~:text=Our%20graduates%27%20history%20of%20success,rate%20consistently%20exceeds%2098%20percent.

Feel like we are in a college bubble - why apply to xyz? because everyone else is and no one will respect you if you don't go there. And one day - all the single digit acceptance colleges will drop to double digits. Investment devalued. See Rensselaer.

You are linking to a POST-Baccalaureate program.

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Anonymous wrote:The world has changed - State Schools are harder to get into. Who would've thought VA Tech and UVA is not where a good percentage of a VA HS went to.

The hard to get into schools of ole days are not that hard: I was surprised to see Rensselaer is like 60% it was 20-30% just 10 - 15 years ago. Vassar is getting dragged through the mud on this forum - that used to be hard to get into.

And easier schools are now hard: Swarthmore.why? besides the dukakis bump - anything else?

Some are severely under valued.
if Bryn Mawr College has a 98% medical school acceptance rate - why is the acceptance rate to the college only 33%. I thought medical school as impossible to get into these days. If my kid said medical school - I'm thinking this school for Bachelors. https://www.brynmawr.edu/postbac/about-program/director#:~:text=Our%20graduates%27%20history%20of%20success,rate%20consistently%20exceeds%2098%20percent.

Feel like we are in a college bubble - why apply to xyz? because everyone else is and no one will respect you if you don't go there. And one day - all the single digit acceptance colleges will drop to double digits. Investment devalued. See Rensselaer.

Per student, Swarthmore is one of the richest colleges in the US. (The per student endowment is 3x Vassar's.)

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Anonymous wrote:Barnard

Isn't this a very prestigious school?!!

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Anonymous wrote:Maryland.

Yay! 🐢

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Anonymous wrote:Mine is at Wisconsin, which was a safety. He has said a couple of times that if he had known this was where he was going, he would have had a little more fun in high school and wouldn't have killed himself taking such hard classes. In the end, no one understood what happened -- other than the two rounds of ED didn't work out and then he was stuck in the seventh circle of waitlist hell until early July. He got into one or two schools that might be considered better than Wisconsin but there are more opportunities in his major in Madison. I wish the process hadn't sucked so much and I wish he had been more proud of how it turned out but at the end of the day it doesn't really matter and he is happy.

Then he might not have gotten into Wisconsin!

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Anonymous wrote:Tufts, Occidental

Tufts' 25th-75th percentile range was 1480-1560 and its acceptance rate was 10 percent. Maybe it wasn't the reachiest of reach schools you were hoping for, but unless you bought a building it wasn't a safety.

[Anonymous]

Jail.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes: UMD, WM, CWRU, Pitt, Lehigh, BU, UMN, Ohio St.
No: Harvard, Penn, UVA, NEU

Extremely surprised at Northeastern. Did you submit a 1400 or something? They hate submitters that are below median.

They hate RD applicants and anyone they think doesn't love them enough.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes: UMD, WM, CWRU, Pitt, Lehigh, BU, UMN, Ohio St.
No: Harvard, Penn, UVA, NEU

Extremely surprised at Northeastern. Did you submit a 1400 or something? They hate submitters that are below median.

It was a dang 1560. EA, deferred, WL. 2023 seemed a little chaotic at NEU.

Same for DD with 1570 in 2023

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes: UMD, WM, CWRU, Pitt, Lehigh, BU, UMN, Ohio St.
No: Harvard, Penn, UVA, NEU

Extremely surprised at Northeastern. Did you submit a 1400 or something? They hate submitters that are below median.

It was a dang 1560. EA, deferred, WL. 2023 seemed a little chaotic at NEU.

Mine is applying to NEU regular admission but really, really likes the school. She's high stats, 35 ACT + good sports, jobs and ECs and she's not at all confident of admission. I know there's a lot of hate, but our experience has been it's a tough admit for strong applicants. Based upon local experience, she's more confident about BC and BU, which are down her list.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes: UMD, WM, CWRU, Pitt, Lehigh, BU, UMN, Ohio St.
No: Harvard, Penn, UVA, NEU

Extremely surprised at Northeastern. Did you submit a 1400 or something? They hate submitters that are below median.

They hate RD applicants and anyone they think doesn't love them enough.

+1000
Almost as bad as Tulane with the ED and interest guessing games

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Barnard

Barnard of the one digit acceptance rate?

If you say so. Barnard ain’t Stanford now is it? Or Yale.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tufts, Occidental

These are great schools.

They are making the point that OP is ridiculous. There are hundreds of great schools.

No, I am not. PP here. I know three kids who wanted to go elsewhere and ended up at Tufts, Barnard and Occidental. I never said these are bad schools. They’re fine. But they’re neither the top choice of my friends’ kids, nor are they as well regarded or highly ranked as the schools that they didn’t get into.

This was 2021, 2022 and 2023 for reference. Two from a big three and one from a public in Montgomery County.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes: UMD, WM, CWRU, Pitt, Lehigh, BU, UMN, Ohio St.
No: Harvard, Penn, UVA, NEU

Extremely surprised at Northeastern. Did you submit a 1400 or something? They hate submitters that are below median.

It was a dang 1560. EA, deferred, WL. 2023 seemed a little chaotic at NEU.

Same for DD with 1570 in 2023

I genuinely don’t get this. How is Northeastern rejecting kids with 1570 on the SATs? I know I’m old, but are there that many kids with scores like that out there?