How do you determine safety/ targets for your kid?

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Anonymous wrote:CollegeVine has been accurate this year for my DD.

Has your kid gotten into any schools where it indicates they have a 20 to 30% chance of getting in?

I’d like to know this too

Agree. What does it mean to say that CollegeVine was accurate? If chances were 60% and the applicant was admitted, does that mean it was correct? What if chances were 50% and the applicant was not admitted? Was CollegeVine wrong in that case?

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My kid got into all of the collegevine schools with over “50% chance” = safeties….

I’m wondering about the RD decisions coming (all sub 30% and many sub 20%)….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CollegeVine has been accurate this year for my DD.

Has your kid gotten into any schools where it indicates they have a 20 to 30% chance of getting in?

I’d like to know this too

Agree. What does it mean to say that CollegeVine was accurate? If chances were 60% and the applicant was admitted, does that mean it was correct? What if chances were 50% and the applicant was not admitted? Was CollegeVine wrong in that case?

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My kid got into all of the collegevine schools with over “50% chance” = safeties….

I’m wondering about the RD decisions coming (all sub 30% and many sub 20%)….

And deferred from super reach (7%) with many family (inc parents) legacies

Just wondering how exactly is college vine helpful?

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collegevine admission chances were accurate for my student: in rolling and EA at all safeties (40% to 90% acceptance rates), in EA at 30% target (15% acceptance rate), in ED2 at 31% target that was marked a 25% reach for regular admission (13% acceptance rate), and denied at ED1 25% reach (8% acceptance rate)

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Collegevine itself estimates chance of acceptance. These are not numbers plugged in from CDS. So if collegevine tells me these schools are reaches, and I only get into a few 20% chance as estimated by collegevine, then it worked for us.

A lot of this would make sense once you use the collegevine my profile page.

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How does the college vine calculator group reach, high target, target and safety schools for a student? Is it a combination of accept rate and student stats? TY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CollegeVine has been accurate this year for my DD.

Has your kid gotten into any schools where it indicates they have a 20 to 30% chance of getting in?

I’d like to know this too

Agree. What does it mean to say that CollegeVine was accurate? If chances were 60% and the applicant was admitted, does that mean it was correct? What if chances were 50% and the applicant was not admitted? Was CollegeVine wrong in that case?

NP. I think CV was accurate for my kid too from HS class '23.

"Accurate" meaning:
Reaches: two rejections
Hard Target: two WL and an acceptance
Target and Safety: seven acceptances

[Anonymous]

Great info for this on the Harvard-Westlake thread on the Private/Independent Schools forum.

[Anonymous]

Great info for this on the Harvard-Westlake thread on the Private/Independent Schools forum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great info for this on the Harvard-Westlake thread on the Private/Independent Schools forum.

Link?

[Anonymous]

Just go to the Private/Independent forum of DCUM. It is right there on the 1st page.

[Anonymous]

It looks like DCUM took the Harvard-Westlake thread down. It was too good. Basically showing in cold hard numbers how hard/impossible it is for unhooked kids not in top 20% of class at an uber prestigious private HS to get into a T25 college.

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like DCUM took the Harvard-Westlake thread down. It was too good. Basically showing in cold hard numbers how hard/impossible it is for unhooked kids not in top 20% of class at an uber prestigious private HS to get into a T25 college.

Bummer. Can you search for it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like DCUM took the Harvard-Westlake thread down. It was too good. Basically showing in cold hard numbers how hard/impossible it is for unhooked kids not in top 20% of class at an uber prestigious private HS to get into a T25 college.

Bummer. Can you search for it?

Google it. It pops right up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like DCUM took the Harvard-Westlake thread down. It was too good. Basically showing in cold hard numbers how hard/impossible it is for unhooked kids not in top 20% of class at an uber prestigious private HS to get into a T25 college.

Bummer. Can you search for it?

Google it. It pops right up.

From 2023??

[Anonymous]

2022. 2023. 2024.