Chances for Tufts/Wash U/Emory/Vandy?

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Anonymous wrote:For Emory, less than half of the applicants submit an SAT score. Your SAT score is almost at the 50th percentile.

Phenomenal chance ED, great chance RD.

Sometimes I think posters here don't realize the CDS gives such clarity.

Bottom quartile is 720V and 750M so 1480 is just over 25th percentile, not near 50th…still, the fact that a high percentage don’t submit is helpful.

You do realize the 50th percentile SAT score at Emory is 1500?

If 1470 is the 25th percentile and 1500 is the 50th, 1480 is closer to 25th than 50th.

Obtuse much? The difference is statistical noise. Fully 50% of Emory's students have a 1500 or below on the SAT. That statistic only includes the 50% of students who bother to submit an SAT. If you think that Emory is going to look at 1480 or a 1500 as a difference maker, you are just plain wrong. A 1480 is a bonafie submit score for Emory, and an assured ED admit. It is a high likely admit for RD assuming GPA and rigor math the score.

You’re assuming that everyone who doesn’t submit is below the 25th percentile. However, for the past several years, many UMC kids have been told only to submit scores at or above the 75th percentile.

You’re also assuming that schools are interested in using scores to gauge the readiness of their applicants and not to boost their published ranges to look highly selective.

So, check yourself before calling others “obtuse”…perhaps your thinking is not the most nuanced.

[Anonymous]

Re: weaving sports into a WashU essay - I’m certainly not a college counselor like Sara Harberson so you’d probably be better off going with her advice.

I believe sports came up in one of DD’s essays, but she was a 3-sport athlete and this factored into her identity. It’s possible she just listed her sports in the activities section of the Common App.

My impression, simply based on observation and what DD has recounted, is that WashU want’s students who love to learn, enjoy activities like sports, music, & research (or a combination thereof) and *want* to be at WashU. But I’m certainly no expert! As long as your DC is their authentic self in their essays, that’s what matters.

I should add that I don’t know much about what the Olin Business School or Sam Fox School of Design (I think that’s what it’s called) look for in students. That would call for specific research by the student prior to submitting an app.

I’m happy to answer any questions that I can, or ask DD when she returns from her brief study-abroad in mid-June.

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Anonymous wrote:Re: weaving sports into a WashU essay - I’m certainly not a college counselor like Sara Harberson so you’d probably be better off going with her advice.

I believe sports came up in one of DD’s essays, but she was a 3-sport athlete and this factored into her identity. It’s possible she just listed her sports in the activities section of the Common App.

My impression, simply based on observation and what DD has recounted, is that WashU want’s students who love to learn, enjoy activities like sports, music, & research (or a combination thereof) and *want* to be at WashU. But I’m certainly no expert! As long as your DC is their authentic self in their essays, that’s what matters.

I should add that I don’t know much about what the Olin Business School or Sam Fox School of Design (I think that’s what it’s called) look for in students. That would call for specific research by the student prior to submitting an app.

I’m happy to answer any questions that I can, or ask DD when she returns from her brief study-abroad in mid-June.

OP here- thank you. This is all helpful. I know that a lot of people accuse schools like Wash U, Tufts, and Emory of "yield protection" but my sense is that they really want students who want to be there. Back in the day, I remember visiting Tufts and feeling like none of the students had really wanted to go to Tufts but rather had "settled." That is not at all the sense that we got when visiting this time. Same with Wash U...

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OP, my posts have been made on my phone, so apologies for the typos. I’m sure WashU’s admissions decisions are based on yield protection to some extent, but they are very much about campus culture, too. I find this culture extends to the parent/guardian/family community, as well. The closed WashU “parent” FB groups are unfailingly polite and helpful. Our DS’s college parent page was nothing like this. People came to complain!

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Anonymous wrote:OP, my posts have been made on my phone, so apologies for the typos. I’m sure WashU’s admissions decisions are based on yield protection to some extent, but they are very much about campus culture, too. I find this culture extends to the parent/guardian/family community, as well. The closed WashU “parent” FB groups are unfailingly polite and helpful. Our DS’s college parent page was nothing like this. People came to complain!

Great to know…

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Anonymous wrote:Is Elon on the list? Which safeties are you visiting?

DC will look at Elon but isn’t jazzed about the location…

How about U Tampa or College of Charleston?

How are these schools anything like the ones OP is asking about?

OP’s schools reject most kids. Mid-sized safeties can be hard to identify.

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Anonymous wrote:Is Elon on the list? Which safeties are you visiting?

DC will look at Elon but isn’t jazzed about the location…

How about U Tampa or College of Charleston?

How are these schools anything like the ones OP is asking about?

OP’s schools reject most kids. Mid-sized safeties can be hard to identify.

Surely OP can think of better safeties than UTampa and CoC…those are not schools for OP’s high stats kid.