Schools with straightforward admissions

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Heartfelt essays! Story of pancakes shows your inner world that captivates the hearts of young and underpaid admissions counselors! So ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:in canada, but consider mcgill - straightforward admissions by numbers.

All Canadian schools do this.

almost all colleges globally do this.

Yep, Canada cuts through the BS. I believe UK schools rely primarily on A levels.

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Anonymous wrote:I've posted this before, but Dartmouth is the one selective school that really admits based on stats from our HS. There's a bright x/y line with grades and test scores. Georgetown also does this but there are outliers. Dartmouth, no outliers. You get those stats, youre in.

HYP are different - reject top kids, take other strong but not top kids. They really must look at the file

Mind giving the stats and the high school? Or at least the type of high school?

Same for our private & D.
Top stats - tippy top; love high scores (35+). Loves outdoorsy kids who have a kind of vibe that matches D.

So it's not just about stats then?

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Anonymous wrote:in canada, but consider mcgill - straightforward admissions by numbers.

All Canadian schools do this.

almost all colleges globally do this.

Yep, Canada cuts through the BS. I believe UK schools rely primarily on A levels.

So then why did my kid have to write three essays, get LORs, etc. for University of Toronto?

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Ole Miss has a matrix for OOS students showing exactly the GPA and ACT/SAT needed not just for admissions but for scholarships of varying amounts. Hotty Toddy!

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I believe Northeastern has a particularly stategic effort in raising its ranking, so they want kids with high quantifiable stats. Extracurriculars, awards, and personal character do not factor into US News rankings. But you would have to apply early decision, I think.

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Anonymous wrote:in canada, but consider mcgill - straightforward admissions by numbers.

All Canadian schools do this.

almost all colleges globally do this.

Yes, the US's admissions process is more about societal engineering than academic qualifications.

Stop being bitter.
Admit you played the wrong game and lost and move on. You will do better for your other kids.

I suggest listening to Lee coffin‘s podcast. Today was the conclusion of season 7 and they both talked so poignantly about one current senior’s essay that they remembered about pancakes made by his mother. They said they will never remember the details of any random research that kids drone on and on about, but they remember the essays that shed insight into who the applicants are as human beings, what they value, and what they will, most importantly, bring to the community - outside of the classroom.

OMG how can you believe this BS.

That’s what they want! Give it to them… My kid did and is now headed to a T10.

It cannot possibly compensate them for the woeful parenting that you gave them. And this is also why we have such excellent sheep leading the country straight into the toilet.

FWIW
Current POTUS went to UPenn
" " VPOTUS Yale law
" " Sec of Defense Princeton
Look how they turned out

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Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Auburn and any regional state university

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Anonymous wrote:I would have said places like Colorado, but that AI kid was denied. LOL.

Please check out that AI kid's terrible essay and you will understand. Just don't let your kid write an outlier and possibly red flag essay like that and you'll be fine.

What are you talking about?

Here you go
https://x.com/zach_yadegari/status/1906888487292559531/photo/2

It’s not great. And while I — as an editor and frequent user of em-dashes — can’t stand the “em-dashes are an AI red flag” situation, the fact that this kid peppers his essay with them and clearly knows his way around AI suggests that this is likely not entirely his writing.

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Anonymous wrote:I would have said places like Colorado, but that AI kid was denied. LOL.

Please check out that AI kid's terrible essay and you will understand. Just don't let your kid write an outlier and possibly red flag essay like that and you'll be fine.

What are you talking about?

Here you go
https://x.com/zach_yadegari/status/1906888487292559531/photo/2

It’s not great. And while I — as an editor and frequent user of em-dashes — can’t stand the “em-dashes are an AI red flag” situation, the fact that this kid peppers his essay with them and clearly knows his way around AI suggests that this is likely not entirely his writing.

In case people don't know what an em dash is, this is the AI kid's essay in part:
A month later, I was still searching. Serendipity brought me to the Ryoan-ji rock garden in Kyoto-where a young Jobs once searched for a similar answer. No—I wasn't magically struck with the right answer like I wanted. But the deliberate imperfection of the stones—the paradox of asymmetry as both chaos and order-lodged itself in my mind, a quiet contradiction I couldn't let go. Maybe life is just this—a tapestry of contradictions where meaning isn't found in resolution but in the act of exploring the in-between.

The short line "-" is a hyphen. The em-dash is the longer line and used very frequently by ChatGPT. I am copying and pasting the em dash because I don't even know how to make it with my laptop "—"

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would have said places like Colorado, but that AI kid was denied. LOL.

Please check out that AI kid's terrible essay and you will understand. Just don't let your kid write an outlier and possibly red flag essay like that and you'll be fine.

What are you talking about?

Here you go
https://x.com/zach_yadegari/status/1906888487292559531/photo/2

It’s not great. And while I — as an editor and frequent user of em-dashes — can’t stand the “em-dashes are an AI red flag” situation, the fact that this kid peppers his essay with them and clearly knows his way around AI suggests that this is likely not entirely his writing.

In case people don't know what an em dash is, this is the AI kid's essay in part:
A month later, I was still searching. Serendipity brought me to the Ryoan-ji rock garden in Kyoto-where a young Jobs once searched for a similar answer. No—I wasn't magically struck with the right answer like I wanted. But the deliberate imperfection of the stones—the paradox of asymmetry as both chaos and order-lodged itself in my mind, a quiet contradiction I couldn't let go. Maybe life is just this—a tapestry of contradictions where meaning isn't found in resolution but in the act of exploring the in-between.

The short line "-" is a hyphen. The em-dash is the longer line and used very frequently by ChatGPT. I am copying and pasting the em dash because I don't even know how to make it with my laptop "—"

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Oh man. I’m an m-dasher. Does all of my writing look like AI?

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Anonymous wrote:in canada, but consider mcgill - straightforward admissions by numbers.

All Canadian schools do this.

almost all colleges globally do this.

Yes, the US's admissions process is more about societal engineering than academic qualifications.

Stop being bitter.
Admit you played the wrong game and lost and move on. You will do better for your other kids.

I suggest listening to Lee coffin‘s podcast. Today was the conclusion of season 7 and they both talked so poignantly about one current senior’s essay that they remembered about pancakes made by his mother. They said they will never remember the details of any random research that kids drone on and on about, but they remember the essays that shed insight into who the applicants are as human beings, what they value, and what they will, most importantly, bring to the community - outside of the classroom.

OMG how can you believe this BS.

That’s what they want! Give it to them… My kid did and is now headed to a T10.

It cannot possibly compensate them for the woeful parenting that you gave them. And this is also why we have such excellent sheep leading the country straight into the toilet.

You seem pretty bitter. Just how bad did you mess up only focusing on what you believed were the magic numbers which would lead to success?

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Anonymous wrote:I've posted this before, but Dartmouth is the one selective school that really admits based on stats from our HS. There's a bright x/y line with grades and test scores. Georgetown also does this but there are outliers. Dartmouth, no outliers. You get those stats, youre in.

HYP are different - reject top kids, take other strong but not top kids. They really must look at the file

That’s definitely NOT the case at our private. Three kids accepted this year. Not a single one is in the top 10 percent of class, one of them is not even top 30. Not legacies or athletes either. Good test scores (1500-1540) but nothing unusual. Kids with better stats were rejected.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do I feel like the OP of this thread is the same as the OP of the thread they're referencing? Anyways, if you're full pay, you can get into any public OOS with an acceptance rate 60%+. You may not get into the engineering or business schools, but their general arts & sciences school is not going to reject your high stats kid.

I suspect what OP is looking for are for higher ranked schools like McGill in Canada where you can go on the website and see exactly which GPA is needed for which majors. It's not an easy admit in terms of GPA--they just have very cut and dry admissions based on GPA and not on essays, etc.

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Pitt and Penn almost robo-respond. You have the stats they admit. I think my accepted within 48 hours.