Question for parents of kids accepted at an Ivy League school
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Anonymous
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To the Parents of kids who have been accepted at any of the Ivy Leagues , or has graduated in the past form an Ivy league school,...Which High school did your DC attend ? How helpful was the high school counselor with the admission process and acceptance into an Ivy League ?
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Anonymous
| DD and DS went to public school. Guidance counselors were not helpful, almost harmful, and we worked around them rather than with them. |
Anonymous
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DS went to public school. He was recruited so he never needed a guidance counsellor.
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Anonymous
| Public school also. We did the guiding. |
Anonymous
| DC was admitted to one of the top Ivy League universities/colleges. S/he attended a well-regarded private school, and the teachers and counselors were all very strong throughout high school. DC made the most of his/her high school years in numerous ways, and was/is very self-motivated to learn, accomplish, and achieve. I would say the college counseling was very strong, and the counselors informed and "gently supervised" or shepherded a process that the students took full ownership of and responsibility for. |
Anonymous
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Public. Lake Braddock. Recruited for a sport. No help from counselors.
Private. PVI. Same as above. Private. Ireton. Same as above. We got generous financial aid and obviously I'm proud of them but I'd be just as proud and I think they'd be no less successful than if they'd gone to non-Ivy colleges. They have cousins who went to state schools (Penn State, Va Tech, Rutgers) and they're each doing great. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
| OP here , please specify the high school and also the Ivy League your DC got accepted in. Thanks |
Anonymous
. Which private school did your DC attend ? |
Anonymous
That is too identifying. |
Anonymous
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lol this is like those college confidential threads
"PLEASE COMMENT WHERE YOU WERE ACCEPTED AND YOUR SAT/GPA" a) the information you want is basically useless b/c ivy league admissions are so individualized and complex, high school attended is a small, indirect factor b) the sample size of DCUM is too small to get meaningful results even if the results were useful c) you can find what you want online with some googling if you really really want to know for some reason |
Anonymous
| Won't name high school but it is one of the top public high schools n the country. DS got into Harvard, Yale, and Brown which were the 3 he applied to. Also got into MIT. Counseling was awful. They routinely told kids they wouldn't get inti schools they were more than qualified for (DS was told that Tufts would be a better option to apply to over an Ivy.) I've never seen kids so stressed out. |
Anonymous
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DC1: MCPS Magnet HS; accepted to Princeton, Columbia, & Brown (and non-Ivy Stanford); no help from counselor who steered DC to applying to UMD, U of DE, and SUNY-Binghamton (of counselor-recommended colleges, DC only to apply UMD and was accepted into honors college & received merit scholarship). DC1 attends an Ivy.
DC2: MCPS "Red Zone" HS; accepted to Princeton, Yale & Dartmouth (and non-Ivy U of Chicago); counselor emphatically insisted that Ivies/20 top-ranked private schools were "beyond a reach" for DC but highly recommended top-ranked public schools like Berkeley, UVA, UNC-Chapel Hill, etc. (DC applied to counselor recommended colleges and was accepted). DC2 will attend an Ivy this fall. For DC3 (MCPS MS) and DC4 (MCPS ES): We'll probably skip the college counseling altogether. |
Anonymous
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MCPS: Columbia.
We did most of the counseling. |
Anonymous
| None of your business. |