Where does the bottom half of the class go to college? (Big 3-5)
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Anonymous
This is not true. Unless you are defining mid-pack as around an A- average. And even then . . . |
Anonymous
How do you know for certain? The 2024 admissions cycle isn’t over yet. There are plenty of Big 3 students who haven’t been notified for RD; plus those deferred or waitlisted by Michigan, WF, and/or UofC. |
Anonymous
Of course 2024 may be different. If you read my post I'm talking about last year. |
Anonymous
I know that, according to Bethesda Magazine, under 20 percent of W school applicants (living in some of the most well-off zip codes in this area, and whose parents have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars not paying private school tuition) are admitted to Michigan/Wake Forest, and under 5 percent to UChicago. Are "mid-pack" Big 3 students, however you want to define them, doing the same or worse in admissions? |
Anonymous
I am not sure what point you are making. No one is comparing private to public here. Are you asking whether more than twenty percent of applicante from a Big 3 class gets into Michigan/Wake Forest and more than 5% get into UChicago? I have no idea. The grades are much smaller. Or are you asking whether everyone in the top 20% or top 5% of a Big 3 gets into those schools? Again, I don't know, but they would be very competitive candidates. But neither of those cut-offs are mid-pack. The initial poster referred to a 3.4. I am pretty sure based on recent years that a student with a 3.4 from a Big 3 (since that was the claim made) would find acceptance to any of these schools challenging. |
Anonymous
| Look at LACs in the Midwest like Wooster, which offers very generous merit aid. |
Anonymous
| The average ACT at my DC’s Big3 is 34. So an average GPA of 3.4 is also likely to have a 34 ACT not a 29. |
Anonymous
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OP’s example was for the bottom half.
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Anonymous
Maybe the average ACT in the test original era. But I refuse to believe that is the average ACT score at any school around here if all the students take it. |
Anonymous
+1 can think of 3 kids who meet this criteria, one from GDS, one from SAES and the other from a well-known Catholic HS in DMV. Oh, and one from Field. A couple of these are TO. All attend currently. Knowing what I know about their families, I have to assume all 4 are full pay. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Not sure which big 3 you’re talking about bc my DC with the GPA around 3.4 got into several of these schools. |
Anonymous
The “bottom” half at a highly selective rich kid Washington prep school are all very bright…rich…and likely have legacy status at a handful of elite colleges. You trolls are so jealous it’s hilarious. These aren’t publics where the bottom half of the senior class are drug addicts who read and write at a primary school level. |
Anonymous
Because the losers posting don’t know a soul at a big 3. Just internet addicted trolls spamming nonsense. |
Anonymous
No, i'm the one posting those stats. My kid is at a Big3. Clearly not the same one as the poster whose kid got into the same school with a lower GPA. But I'm not trolling. Those are actual stats from 21-23 at a Big3. |