Rejected from Chicago, Northwestern, Williams, Vanderbilt...

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I know a brilliant kid at Chicago that got rejected from every Ivy.

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Anonymous wrote:If she did not get into Vandy - she is not getting into Duke and the Ivies.

Agreed. If she didn't get into either Vandy or Northwestern, she's not getting into any of the Ivies.

Op. Agree that this is a great life lesson. That said, it's not the end of the world. Do a gap year or go to a state school, and reapply.

Wrong. DS got rejected at Northwestern and waitlisted at Vanderbilt and got a likely letter from an Ivy with admissions into a very select program. I know several other kids who were rejected from these schools and got into higher ranked schools. Vandy and Northwestern yield protect, but in reality, so much of this is random as to who gets in and who doesn't. There is no magic formula that if you get into x school you will get in to y and z. Heck, I know kids who got into Havard and were rejected by schools like Vanderbilt and Duke.

OP - let's hear your kid's stats..

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Anonymous wrote:I know a brilliant kid at Chicago that got rejected from every Ivy.

This also applies to PLENTY of kids from our BIG 3!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know a brilliant kid at Chicago that got rejected from every Ivy.

Chicago doesn't care about ECs; it cares about how your mind works.

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Anonymous wrote:I know a brilliant kid at Chicago that got rejected from every Ivy.

This also applies to PLENTY of kids from our BIG 3!

Funny Chicago was my safety back in the day. I got rejected from 2 Ivies.

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Yeah, UChicago went from a >60% admission rate when DD was born to an <8% admissions rate the year she was accepted!

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Anonymous wrote:I know a brilliant kid at Chicago that got rejected from every Ivy.

Chicago doesn't care about ECs; it cares about how your mind works.

He was strong in every way, including extensive, outgoing ECs.

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Anonymous wrote:Either this is a troll or this should be a good life lesson to OP daughter that she's just a small fish and need to learn to live with a chip on her shoulder sometimes by sucking it up and proving people wrong.

A small sucking fish with shoulders, apparently...

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Anonymous wrote:I know a brilliant kid at Chicago that got rejected from every Ivy.

Chicago doesn't care about ECs; it cares about how your mind works.

He was strong in every way, including extensive, outgoing ECs.

Doesn't mean Chicago cared about his ECs. Let me put this another way, Ivies didn't care about his brilliance. Different schools are looking for different things (sometimes in different places as well). It's not a lottery, it's not a hierarchy, it's a marketplace with independent actors and the challenge is to find who values what you have to offer.

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Anonymous wrote:Ivy Day isn't going to go so well for my DD, is it? She didn't apply to any safeties. Only Ivies and Duke remain.

Wow op... DC didn't know about importance of safeties?

She did. Just refused to submit an app to a place she'd never attend.

Sounds like she is a brat.
That's a really snotty thing to say.
If you demand top tier or nothing, you darn well better be willing to settle for nothing.

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I'm sorry. This is rough.

I deferred a year when everyone else I knew went off to college. Granted, I was doing something I wanted to be doing, but the point remains.

Your daughter may have her less than favorite year next year, but once it is over, she'll go to a college that fits, her life will go on and it just won't matter.

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Anonymous wrote:Ivy Day isn't going to go so well for my DD, is it? She didn't apply to any safeties. Only Ivies and Duke remain.

I suppose NW and Vandy were supposed to be safeties? If so, you (and/or your DD's guidance counselor) badly miscalculated.

She had to retake standardized test in December, which was her finest score, by far. So she didn't apply early anywhere. I don't think she would have been competitive with her earlier score anyways, so it was a tricky spot to be in.

How does happen? Did she start taking the SAT/ACT late in high school? Or perhaps she took it too many times?

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Anonymous wrote:If she did not get into Vandy - she is not getting into Duke and the Ivies.

I know a young man who was rejected from Vandy and is currently at Dartmouth.

Yes, it actually happens reasonably frequently. Non-ivy schools in the 10-25 range are very conscious of their yield numbers. Many of them accept most of their class through ED, so there are relatively few spots available in RD compared to the Ivies, and since they don't want to lose kids to the ivies, they often will reject kids with high stats and great ECs in favor of less impressive (on paper) students who have shown a lot of interest.

Someone is making shit up again. The same shit, but shit nonetheless.

This is not made up and is not "shit." It is reality in college admissions. Yield protection is all too real.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know a brilliant kid at Chicago that got rejected from every Ivy.

Chicago doesn't care about ECs; it cares about how your mind works.

He was strong in every way, including extensive, outgoing ECs.

Doesn't mean Chicago cared about his ECs. Let me put this another way, Ivies didn't care about his brilliance. Different schools are looking for different things (sometimes in different places as well). It's not a lottery, it's not a hierarchy, it's a marketplace with independent actors and the challenge is to find who values what you have to offer.

It is a marketplace but you can have everything's my they are looking to buy and still get rejected. There is a huge element of randomness n the "holistic" process.

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Is she wait listed at any of them? Anyway, how did you and she overestimate her chances so much?