Where did your 33/34 ACT, 3.9 UW GPA get in?

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like a 3.9 and 33/34 is a recipe for some excellent outcomes. Congrats to these kids. Gives me hope!

Oh please. Don’t be naive. At the top 15 it is a lottery unless you are hooked. And parents are loath to mention their kid’s hook in this type of conversation.

Bitter loser, too ashamed to put your kid’s school on your bumper.

Nope my kids are toddlers. But I went Ivy (would never make it now) but I work in university development. So I know how artificial the process is.

So every kid who got into the good schools above were either hooked or just got lucky. Gotcha. Then why are you here? If it’s all luck and hooks what could you possibly learn. Looking forward to your nothing response.

My response? Sorry you’re so bitter. I know the inside baseball. I also know that it’s the person not the school that determines the achievement.

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my kid attends a top local private and I can tell you that the kids I know who are hooked and are applying early to the place where they have a leg up (ie legacy) also are the full package. They have top grades and scores etc. Don't assume that their only advantage is the legacy.

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Anonymous wrote:Our DS had a 3.8 UW and 34 ACT from a strong local private (not big-3). Accepted ED at Cornell.

Yeah but Cornell is very cold, dour, hard-ass grading and generally unfun. Ivy price without any of its benefits.

Essentially every private school is Ivy priced. At least Cornell is actually an Ivy.

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Anonymous wrote:Our DS had a 3.8 UW and 34 ACT from a strong local private (not big-3). Accepted ED at Cornell.

Yeah but Cornell is very cold, dour, hard-ass grading and generally unfun. Ivy price without any of its benefits.

Essentially every private school is Ivy priced. At least Cornell is actually an Ivy.

+1 If you are majoring in engineering,, architecture or several other majors Cornell is actually the top Ivy.

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Anonymous wrote:my kid attends a top local private and I can tell you that the kids I know who are hooked and are applying early to the place where they have a leg up (ie legacy) also are the full package. They have top grades and scores etc. Don't assume that their only advantage is the legacy.

Wow. Your snowflake really deserved it then!!! Silly poster. Do you not realize that their full package was statistically slightly less of a full package??? Their were thousands more that were as good or better without the hook.

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Anonymous wrote:Looking for kids with similar stats in last couple of years and where they got accepted and rejected.

33/34 ACT
3.9 GPA (private does not weight)
very good ECs
no major national awards, not curing cancer or starting a non profit

interested in where similar kids got in without hooks

thanks

Very good stats!
Visit as many schools as your kid wants and them he/she will let you know where he wants to apply.
After that the process is much easier.
An the most important thing...stay away from DCUM

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Anonymous wrote:Our DS had a 3.8 UW and 34 ACT from a strong local private (not big-3). Accepted ED at Cornell.

Yeah but Cornell is very cold, dour, hard-ass grading and generally unfun. Ivy price without any of its benefits.

Essentially every private school is Ivy priced. At least Cornell is actually an Ivy.

Last year my son applied to 12 school including all the Ivy's. He was accepted in Harvard and Cornell and few other top schools and he decided to attend
Cornell. He is very happy and having lots of fun. Tuition is almost the same across the board.

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Anonymous wrote:How is your private school packaging and presenting the kids?

Just found out the 2019 matriculation of my NE private HS:
Out of 120 kids:

19 Harvard
8 Dartmouth
3 UPenn
2 Stanford
1 Columbia
1 Cornell
1 Brown
1 MIT

8 Middlebury
5 Williams
5 Tufts
3 U Chicago
3 Georgetown
3 Duke

Are these kids any smarter than yours? No. Do half the class have hooks? Probably not. The counselors have an impact.

Legacies? Donor kids? Recruited athletes? Agree on counselors.

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3.8 uw/4.3 w 33 ACT from FCPS

In at Pitt, Lehigh, Wake Forest, URochester, UVA

Waitlisted at Emory

Ds really liked mid size research universities. Chose Lehigh and loves it.

[Anonymous]

Have a similar kid and would love to know where other similar kids have been accepted. thanks

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Anonymous wrote:my kid attends a top local private and I can tell you that the kids I know who are hooked and are applying early to the place where they have a leg up (ie legacy) also are the full package. They have top grades and scores etc. Don't assume that their only advantage is the legacy.

Born on 3rd, thinks they hit a triple. They are the "full package" bc their rich parents can afford a excellent learning environment and other enrichment activities. -- signed Ivy league graduate who attended elite private HS and was legacy at the Ivy I attended.

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Anonymous wrote:my kid attends a top local private and I can tell you that the kids I know who are hooked and are applying early to the place where they have a leg up (ie legacy) also are the full package. They have top grades and scores etc. Don't assume that their only advantage is the legacy.

Born on 3rd, thinks they hit a triple. They are the "full package" bc their rich parents can afford a excellent learning environment and other enrichment activities. -- signed Ivy league graduate who attended elite private HS and was legacy at the Ivy I attended.

+1. Range Rover moms lack perspective.

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Anonymous wrote:my kid attends a top local private and I can tell you that the kids I know who are hooked and are applying early to the place where they have a leg up (ie legacy) also are the full package. They have top grades and scores etc. Don't assume that their only advantage is the legacy.

Born on 3rd, thinks they hit a triple. They are the "full package" bc their rich parents can afford a excellent learning environment and other enrichment activities. -- signed Ivy league graduate who attended elite private HS and was legacy at the Ivy I attended.

You’re right, they must all suk. All the millions of Ivy alums’ millions of offspring— all dumb as doornails and uncoordinated as the stooges. How dare their parents have jobs and careers to pay for anything I cannot.

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Anonymous wrote:3.8 uw/4.3 w 33 ACT from FCPS

In at Pitt, Lehigh, Wake Forest, URochester, UVA

Waitlisted at Emory

Ds really liked mid size research universities. Chose Lehigh and loves it.

Geez, waitlist Ed?! DS only has a 32.

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Anonymous wrote:my kid attends a top local private and I can tell you that the kids I know who are hooked and are applying early to the place where they have a leg up (ie legacy) also are the full package. They have top grades and scores etc. Don't assume that their only advantage is the legacy.

Born on 3rd, thinks they hit a triple. They are the "full package" bc their rich parents can afford a excellent learning environment and other enrichment activities. -- signed Ivy league graduate who attended elite private HS and was legacy at the Ivy I attended.

You’re right, they must all suk. All the millions of Ivy alums’ millions of offspring— all dumb as doornails and uncoordinated as the stooges. How dare their parents have jobs and careers to pay for anything I cannot.

Apparently you don’t grasp what born on third means.