Harvard-Westlake Is The Only Elite Prep School Transparent With College Admissions. Shame on DC Privates.

[Anonymous]

I'd say shame on you, OP, for picking apart kids and their college choices like this. You seem to think there are bad choices in these lists, and that says more about you than any of these high schools. They know your type and what you do with the information you seek and how meaningless it really is.

[Anonymous]

What is interesting to me is this. The unhooked top kids with GPA 4.3 and above, so the best of the best at the best school in LA:
Applied/accepted

Amherst 13/7
Brown 66/7
Columbia 61/9
Dartmouth 35/4
Duke 25/6
Emory 14/4
Georgetown 40/27
Harvard 70/7
Jhu 26/4
MIT 42/3
Middlebury 5/0
Northwestern 46/4
Princeton 53/4
Stanford 59/5
Tufts 29/7
Vanderbilt 16/1
Williams 16/4
Yale 67/12
Wash u st L 34/6


It sucks to be a top unhooked kid at these elite privates.

[Anonymous]

Send ur kid applies to Harvard Westlake since the DC privates aren’t transparent enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is interesting to me is this. The unhooked top kids with GPA 4.3 and above, so the best of the best at the best school in LA:
Applied/accepted

Amherst 13/7
Brown 66/7
Columbia 61/9
Dartmouth 35/4
Duke 25/6
Emory 14/4
Georgetown 40/27
Harvard 70/7
Jhu 26/4
MIT 42/3
Middlebury 5/0
Northwestern 46/4
Princeton 53/4
Stanford 59/5
Tufts 29/7
Vanderbilt 16/1
Williams 16/4
Yale 67/12
Wash u st L 34/6


It sucks to be a top unhooked kid at these elite privates.


Depends on the school. 1/5 in at Yale pretty good. And umichigan stats are amazing. But They are only are going to take so many kids and lots are hooked




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[Anonymous]

Your DC can be in the top 1% of the students at the top 1% of schools and still have less than a 20% chance of getting into an alright school like Wash U.?

There's gotta be a better way.

[Anonymous]

Harvard-Westlake is 1 of the best HS's in the country and these stats are hardly impressive. So when a Big 3 claims that most of its students are going to an Ivy, i call bullsh*t.

Insta doesn't prove anything. First, this gen will never post on Insta that they are going to George Mason. Second, the few postings (out of hundreds of students) claiming to go to an Ivy are not verified.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harvard-Westlake is 1 of the best HS's in the country and these stats are hardly impressive. So when a Big 3 claims that most of its students are going to an Ivy, i call bullsh*t.

Insta doesn't prove anything. First, this gen will never post on Insta that they are going to George Mason. Second, the few postings (out of hundreds of students) claiming to go to an Ivy are not verified.

Which big 3 claims "most of its students are going to an Ivy"?? No school claims that. You seem like the same public school poster going through all these threads bashing privates.

H-W's results are impressive--colleges are not going to take too many kids from any one school. Not everyone wants a high pressure college after going to a high pressure high school.

[Anonymous]

Briefly scrolling thru H-W's three year results, H-W appears to have a higher percentage of acceptances than the general acceptance rate of many of the schools listed (ie Yale acceptance rate is around 5%; HW Yale acceptance rate is over 12%). How is doubling the acceptance rate not great?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is interesting to me is this. The unhooked top kids with GPA 4.3 and above, so the best of the best at the best school in LA:
Applied/accepted

Amherst 13/7
Brown 66/7
Columbia 61/9
Dartmouth 35/4
Duke 25/6
Emory 14/4
Georgetown 40/27
Harvard 70/7
Jhu 26/4
MIT 42/3
Middlebury 5/0
Northwestern 46/4
Princeton 53/4
Stanford 59/5
Tufts 29/7
Vanderbilt 16/1
Williams 16/4
Yale 67/12
Wash u st L 34/6


It sucks to be a top unhooked kid at these elite privates.

It’s hard to gather information from this chart unless you have an additional column of how many hooked students there are. Last year 14 HW students matriculated to Harvard and 51 have in the past 5 years.

4 to Stanford last year and 31 in last 5 years.

And these are matriculation numbers not acceptance numbers. It seems worse if you ate at a rigorous private with so many hooked applicants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is interesting to me is this. The unhooked top kids with GPA 4.3 and above, so the best of the best at the best school in LA:
Applied/accepted

Amherst 13/7
Brown 66/7
Columbia 61/9
Dartmouth 35/4
Duke 25/6
Emory 14/4
Georgetown 40/27
Harvard 70/7
Jhu 26/4
MIT 42/3
Middlebury 5/0
Northwestern 46/4
Princeton 53/4
Stanford 59/5
Tufts 29/7
Vanderbilt 16/1
Williams 16/4
Yale 67/12
Wash u st L 34/6


It sucks to be a top unhooked kid at these elite privates.

It’s hard to gather information from this chart unless you have an additional column of how many hooked students there are. Last year 14 HW students matriculated to Harvard and 51 have in the past 5 years.

4 to Stanford last year and 31 in last 5 years.

And these are matriculation numbers not acceptance numbers. It seems worse if you ate at a rigorous private with so many hooked applicants.

So the 51 to Harvard, only 7 unhooked kids over 3 years were admitted so let’s double that and say 14 unhooked kids got in over 5 year and ALL attended - only 14 of the 51 who went to Harvard were unhooked admits. That’s reality and it sucks for the smart unhooked kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Briefly scrolling thru H-W's three year results, H-W appears to have a higher percentage of acceptances than the general acceptance rate of many of the schools listed (ie Yale acceptance rate is around 5%; HW Yale acceptance rate is over 12%). How is doubling the acceptance rate not great?

How is a 12% chance great?
( I have a better chance of being elected President)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is super interesting. Once you subtract the legacies and athletes, the outcomes for students at one of the best private schools in the country are not that different from the average.

I dare say 12.5 percent acceptance rate for unhooked at Yale is hardly "not that different from the average." It is multiples better than the average, esp when you subtracted hook admits from the 4 percent "average".... I mean, this is potentially 4x higher than the "average" lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's bizarre to me is why H-W students with non-stellar GPAs keep applying to UNC-Chapel Hill. Clearly it's not working.

Just a handful each year, and UNC obviously rejects everyone (because they know no one will actually go to UNC from HW).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kenyon College seems to be the HW safety school as 30 of 33 were admitted over the past 3 years (the 3 declines were probably due to yield protection concerns).

HW does well with Columbia University and Duke, but not Northwestern (only 6 of 102 accepted).

What's interesting about Northwestern is that they seem to take some kids within the median of the class. It seems like you don't have to be at the tippy-top at HW to get into a T10 school, although it certainly helps.

Northwestern, despite the ranking, is a tier below the top schools HW kids angle for. If you apply ED as a second quintile GPA, you can get in. Not unlike UChicago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is interesting to me is this. The unhooked top kids with GPA 4.3 and above, so the best of the best at the best school in LA:
Applied/accepted

Amherst 13/7
Brown 66/7
Columbia 61/9
Dartmouth 35/4
Duke 25/6
Emory 14/4
Georgetown 40/27
Harvard 70/7
Jhu 26/4
MIT 42/3
Middlebury 5/0
Northwestern 46/4
Princeton 53/4
Stanford 59/5
Tufts 29/7
Vanderbilt 16/1
Williams 16/4
Yale 67/12
Wash u st L 34/6


It sucks to be a top unhooked kid at these elite privates.

It’s hard to gather information from this chart unless you have an additional column of how many hooked students there are. Last year 14 HW students matriculated to Harvard and 51 have in the past 5 years.

4 to Stanford last year and 31 in last 5 years.

And these are matriculation numbers not acceptance numbers. It seems worse if you ate at a rigorous private with so many hooked applicants.

So the 51 to Harvard, only 7 unhooked kids over 3 years were admitted so let’s double that and say 14 unhooked kids got in over 5 year and ALL attended - only 14 of the 51 who went to Harvard were unhooked admits. That’s reality and it sucks for the smart unhooked kids.

Harvard has made it clear that it is primarily a school for the already connected and/or the ultrarich. Its brand is its elitism, and by elite they do not mean the top students, they mean exclusivity.