Big 3 (or thereabouts) College Results - Class of 2021

[Anonymous]

DC is a senior at area private school. College counseling office described this year's application results as "historically awful." This seem to be born out by what I'm seeing/hearing. Lots of deferrals and rejections.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC is a senior at area private school. College counseling office described this year's application results as "historically awful." This seem to be born out by what I'm seeing/hearing. Lots of deferrals and rejections.

Even for full pay families? Our college advisor said that while so far it’s true results are significantly worse this year, it’s mostly being experienced by those families applying for FA, not full pay. Sounds much like the misbalanced impact of the pandemic itself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is a senior at area private school. College counseling office described this year's application results as "historically awful." This seem to be born out by what I'm seeing/hearing. Lots of deferrals and rejections.

Even for full pay families? Our college advisor said that while so far it’s true results are significantly worse this year, it’s mostly being experienced by those families applying for FA, not full pay. Sounds much like the misbalanced impact of the pandemic itself.

NP. Yes, even for full pay families. We are a full pay family at a Big 3. My kid has been deferred at 7 schools: safeties, matches and reaches. Similar results for ALL DC’s friends that are also full pay. My DC is a complete wreck.

[Anonymous]

I wonder where the spots are going. Are colleges taking more full pay students from less populated states who have good grades at ok schools but no test scores to compare them to students from major cities? or are they taking more underrepresented (by any socioeconomic demographic) students who need financial assistance? It's hard to imagine that colleges would significantly increase their share of scholarship students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder where the spots are going. Are colleges taking more full pay students from less populated states who have good grades at ok schools but no test scores to compare them to students from major cities? or are they taking more underrepresented (by any socioeconomic demographic) students who need financial assistance? It's hard to imagine that colleges would significantly increase their share of scholarship students.

I am also wondering if there will be a lot of WL acceptances at these schools when accepted kids decline offers after realizing they don’t want to take out huge debt to attend. Attending OOS school like UCLA, UNC, Wisconsin or Michigan is very expensive and aid is mostly loans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is a senior at area private school. College counseling office described this year's application results as "historically awful." This seem to be born out by what I'm seeing/hearing. Lots of deferrals and rejections.

Even for full pay families? Our college advisor said that while so far it’s true results are significantly worse this year, it’s mostly being experienced by those families applying for FA, not full pay. Sounds much like the misbalanced impact of the pandemic itself.

NP. Yes, even for full pay families. We are a full pay family at a Big 3. My kid has been deferred at 7 schools: safeties, matches and reaches. Similar results for ALL DC’s friends that are also full pay. My DC is a complete wreck.

yes, same here.

Kids at our big3 are not getting in anywhere. It is grim and people are starting to freak out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is a senior at area private school. College counseling office described this year's application results as "historically awful." This seem to be born out by what I'm seeing/hearing. Lots of deferrals and rejections.

Even for full pay families? Our college advisor said that while so far it’s true results are significantly worse this year, it’s mostly being experienced by those families applying for FA, not full pay. Sounds much like the misbalanced impact of the pandemic itself.

NP. Yes, even for full pay families. We are a full pay family at a Big 3. My kid has been deferred at 7 schools: safeties, matches and reaches. Similar results for ALL DC’s friends that are also full pay. My DC is a complete wreck.

Most kids at big 3 do not apply to 7 schools during early decision/early action unless you also include state schools bc most of the private colleges these kids apply to have a restrictive early action or can only apply to only one school for early decision. We know several seniors at our big 3 school who got into their early school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder where the spots are going. Are colleges taking more full pay students from less populated states who have good grades at ok schools but no test scores to compare them to students from major cities? or are they taking more underrepresented (by any socioeconomic demographic) students who need financial assistance? It's hard to imagine that colleges would significantly increase their share of scholarship students.

Better GPA from area publics where the kids are also full pay?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is a senior at area private school. College counseling office described this year's application results as "historically awful." This seem to be born out by what I'm seeing/hearing. Lots of deferrals and rejections.

Even for full pay families? Our college advisor said that while so far it’s true results are significantly worse this year, it’s mostly being experienced by those families applying for FA, not full pay. Sounds much like the misbalanced impact of the pandemic itself.

NP. Yes, even for full pay families. We are a full pay family at a Big 3. My kid has been deferred at 7 schools: safeties, matches and reaches. Similar results for ALL DC’s friends that are also full pay. My DC is a complete wreck.

Most kids at big 3 do not apply to 7 schools during early decision/early action unless you also include state schools bc most of the private colleges these kids apply to have a restrictive early action or can only apply to only one school for early decision. We know several seniors at our big 3 school who got into their early school.

Well, I guess DC and their friends are not the norm. They all applied to a lot of EA schools. My DC did not apply to any restrictive early action schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder where the spots are going. Are colleges taking more full pay students from less populated states who have good grades at ok schools but no test scores to compare them to students from major cities? or are they taking more underrepresented (by any socioeconomic demographic) students who need financial assistance? It's hard to imagine that colleges would significantly increase their share of scholarship students.

Better GPA from area publics where the kids are also full pay?

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder where the spots are going. Are colleges taking more full pay students from less populated states who have good grades at ok schools but no test scores to compare them to students from major cities? or are they taking more underrepresented (by any socioeconomic demographic) students who need financial assistance? It's hard to imagine that colleges would significantly increase their share of scholarship students.

Better GPA from area publics where the kids are also full pay?

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Yes. 100%
Better GPAs from public. My kid's friends from DC-area publics all have 4.3+ GPAs. From what I can see they are having much better results this season.
They are fully able to pay full freight at colleges (in fact, more-so because they didn't spend 100s of thousands on high school).

[Anonymous]

I suspect these schools are taking many fewer in the early round as they wait and see whetger they will actually be able to open. If they are unable to open their class sizes will probably be much smaller because many will choose to defer. They also have to wait and see where kids that deferred this year choose to come back next year. Then there is a complicating factor of whether international students will be able to come to the US at all from certain countries. It is a very complicated algorithm trying to get the class-size correct.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder where the spots are going. Are colleges taking more full pay students from less populated states who have good grades at ok schools but no test scores to compare them to students from major cities? or are they taking more underrepresented (by any socioeconomic demographic) students who need financial assistance? It's hard to imagine that colleges would significantly increase their share of scholarship students.

Better GPA from area publics where the kids are also full pay?

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Exactly. My DC's friends at our local public school are getting very high grades with much less effort than usual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I suspect these schools are taking many fewer in the early round as they wait and see whetger they will actually be able to open. If they are unable to open their class sizes will probably be much smaller because many will choose to defer. They also have to wait and see where kids that deferred this year choose to come back next year. Then there is a complicating factor of whether international students will be able to come to the US at all from certain countries. It is a very complicated algorithm trying to get the class-size correct.

I wonder if a few schools will absolutely botch it and end up massively over or under enrolled.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is a senior at area private school. College counseling office described this year's application results as "historically awful." This seem to be born out by what I'm seeing/hearing. Lots of deferrals and rejections.

Even for full pay families? Our college advisor said that while so far it’s true results are significantly worse this year, it’s mostly being experienced by those families applying for FA, not full pay. Sounds much like the misbalanced impact of the pandemic itself.

NP. Yes, even for full pay families. We are a full pay family at a Big 3. My kid has been deferred at 7 schools: safeties, matches and reaches. Similar results for ALL DC’s friends that are also full pay. My DC is a complete wreck.

Ugh. Hang in there. I hope and expect that something good will come your child’s way by May.