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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's been a bloodbath at the state schools (Michigan, Wisconsin, UVA, UNC, UT).

You guys are all so dramatic

[Anonymous]

Private schools are loving the clusterf*ck that is large county public schools and unions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's been a bloodbath at the state schools (Michigan, Wisconsin, UVA, UNC, UT).

+100 These private schools are doing their students no favors by gutting their GPAs and not providing any weighting of grades. Very few kids are getting into these top state schools. The ones at our school will likely also be accepted into Ivies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:College in the U.S. went from crapshoot to total crapshoot.

Now with no tests, merit, or recommendations plus new quotas for URMs and first time college it’s just like spinning a wheel who picks you for the x colored, x gendered, x race, x geography’s, etc.

Kids are even applying for math or stats (or engineering) just to get IN to the school, then quickly switch to liberal arts or sociology. Total game. So ridiculous.

Meanwhile everyone’s pissed there aren’t enough XYZ folks in finance, stem, med yet no one earns a relevant major or can demonstrate actual interest! Much easier to just do “journalism” blogging about it.

Careful your racism is showing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's been a bloodbath at the state schools (Michigan, Wisconsin, UVA, UNC, UT).

+100 These private schools are doing their students no favors by gutting their GPAs and not providing any weighting of grades. Very few kids are getting into these top state schools. The ones at our school will likely also be accepted into Ivies.

Yes, it’s all SO unfair!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's been a bloodbath at the state schools (Michigan, Wisconsin, UVA, UNC, UT).

+100 These private schools are doing their students no favors by gutting their GPAs and not providing any weighting of grades. Very few kids are getting into these top state schools. The ones at our school will likely also be accepted into Ivies.

Yes, it’s all SO unfair!

Go back to the public school forum with your kid’s 4.6 GPA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Enough

This was an additive comment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College in the U.S. went from crapshoot to total crapshoot.

Now with no tests, merit, or recommendations plus new quotas for URMs and first time college it’s just like spinning a wheel who picks you for the x colored, x gendered, x race, x geography’s, etc.

Kids are even applying for math or stats (or engineering) just to get IN to the school, then quickly switch to liberal arts or sociology. Total game. So ridiculous.

Meanwhile everyone’s pissed there aren’t enough XYZ folks in finance, stem, med yet no one earns a relevant major or can demonstrate actual interest! Much easier to just do “journalism” blogging about it.

Careful your racism is showing

I bet that is your response to any facts you don't like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do people want to move to an area with better public schools, even though they have to pay more for a similar house? The reason is that the education, on average, is much better in the better school: peers, on average, are better; teachers, on average, are better; facilities, on average, are better; course offerings, on average, are better. The expected education outcome is better. Otherwise, why would invest in schools at all?

Exactly! You also have some families who value different grades. I have two kids at top elementary school in DC, I plan to go private for middle/High. You have some people that do private for elementary and middle, public for High.

Good luck. Do you know this is easier said than done? At our top (JKLM) DCPS elementary last year, at least 12 kids applied to the top privates at 6th and one got in. ONE. It's not like you can just "go private for middle school" unless you go several tiers down for private.

Your "tiers" are imaginary. They truly are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's been a bloodbath at the state schools (Michigan, Wisconsin, UVA, UNC, UT).

+100 These private schools are doing their students no favors by gutting their GPAs and not providing any weighting of grades. Very few kids are getting into these top state schools. The ones at our school will likely also be accepted into Ivies.

Yes, it’s all SO unfair!

Go back to the public school forum with your kid’s 4.6 GPA

Private school parent. So sorry to disappoint. Just so tired of the whining about grades, GPAs, APs, class rank, college counseling, etc. When most DMV private school kids are born with more advantages than most people on the planet, it’s gets ridiculous. Don’t you agree?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College in the U.S. went from crapshoot to total crapshoot.

Now with no tests, merit, or recommendations plus new quotas for URMs and first time college it’s just like spinning a wheel who picks you for the x colored, x gendered, x race, x geography’s, etc.

Kids are even applying for math or stats (or engineering) just to get IN to the school, then quickly switch to liberal arts or sociology. Total game. So ridiculous.

Meanwhile everyone’s pissed there aren’t enough XYZ folks in finance, stem, med yet no one earns a relevant major or can demonstrate actual interest! Much easier to just do “journalism” blogging about it.

Careful your racism is showing

I bet that is your response to any facts you don't like.

Maybe if you showed the same level of indignation at the advantages given to predominantly white donors, legacies and athletes you wouldn’t look like such a racist.

And exactly what did you mean by “colored”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College in the U.S. went from crapshoot to total crapshoot.

Now with no tests, merit, or recommendations plus new quotas for URMs and first time college it’s just like spinning a wheel who picks you for the x colored, x gendered, x race, x geography’s, etc.

Kids are even applying for math or stats (or engineering) just to get IN to the school, then quickly switch to liberal arts or sociology. Total game. So ridiculous.

Meanwhile everyone’s pissed there aren’t enough XYZ folks in finance, stem, med yet no one earns a relevant major or can demonstrate actual interest! Much easier to just do “journalism” blogging about it.

Careful your racism is showing

Not the PP. but you’re annoying. No racism. But I’d says tests don’t equal merit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's been a bloodbath at the state schools (Michigan, Wisconsin, UVA, UNC, UT).

You guys are all so dramatic

I bet your kid isn’t a senior...

[Anonymous]

Heard the "safety schools" are also not going well. One needs a second level of safety school. Also known as JC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College in the U.S. went from crapshoot to total crapshoot.

Now with no tests, merit, or recommendations plus new quotas for URMs and first time college it’s just like spinning a wheel who picks you for the x colored, x gendered, x race, x geography’s, etc.

Kids are even applying for math or stats (or engineering) just to get IN to the school, then quickly switch to liberal arts or sociology. Total game. So ridiculous.

Meanwhile everyone’s pissed there aren’t enough XYZ folks in finance, stem, med yet no one earns a relevant major or can demonstrate actual interest! Much easier to just do “journalism” blogging about it.

Careful your racism is showing

Not the PP. but you’re annoying. No racism. But I’d says tests don’t equal merit.

How is it not racist? Everything about what PP wrote is racist yet has no problem with legacy or athletic admissions which are mostly white.