small private HS, chances at T20

[Anonymous]

Son just graduated from a small private (110 graduating seniors this year and it’s a record for the school). It’s a college prep school with a much more difficult curriculum than public but no clout or fancy history. The only the top half of the class was admitted to 4 year colleges and universities. Only URMs with 4.0s were admitted T20. Non-URMs with 4.0s and most course rigor are going to T100s. My son turned down a T30 for a T100 due to fit.

Look at academic, social, and financial fit and make your own ranking. Those are the students in the Class of 2024 who are not taking gap years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Son just graduated from a small private (110 graduating seniors this year and it’s a record for the school). It’s a college prep school with a much more difficult curriculum than public but no clout or fancy history. The only the top half of the class was admitted to 4 year colleges and universities. Only URMs with 4.0s were admitted T20. Non-URMs with 4.0s and most course rigor are going to T100s. My son turned down a T30 for a T100 due to fit.

Look at academic, social, and financial fit and make your own ranking. Those are the students in the Class of 2024 who are not taking gap years.

Where is this? This seems strange and unusual.

[Anonymous]

In Virginia. It’s a good school but this was a very competitive year. Not in DC or Big3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Son just graduated from a small private (110 graduating seniors this year and it’s a record for the school). It’s a college prep school with a much more difficult curriculum than public but no clout or fancy history. The only the top half of the class was admitted to 4 year colleges and universities. Only URMs with 4.0s were admitted T20. Non-URMs with 4.0s and most course rigor are going to T100s. My son turned down a T30 for a T100 due to fit.

Look at academic, social, and financial fit and make your own ranking. Those are the students in the Class of 2024 who are not taking gap years.

NP. Similar story for our kid's high school.

[Anonymous]

There is still a lot of deferral churn in colleges. Hopefully that will work itself out but not yet.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Son just graduated from a small private (110 graduating seniors this year and it’s a record for the school). It’s a college prep school with a much more difficult curriculum than public but no clout or fancy history. The only the top half of the class was admitted to 4 year colleges and universities. Only URMs with 4.0s were admitted T20. Non-URMs with 4.0s and most course rigor are going to T100s. My son turned down a T30 for a T100 due to fit.

Look at academic, social, and financial fit and make your own ranking. Those are the students in the Class of 2024 who are not taking gap years.

NP. Similar story for our kid's high school.

Not the case for our non-DMV private with 88 grads.
Stellar truly top notch year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Son just graduated from a small private (110 graduating seniors this year and it’s a record for the school). It’s a college prep school with a much more difficult curriculum than public but no clout or fancy history. The only the top half of the class was admitted to 4 year colleges and universities. Only URMs with 4.0s were admitted T20. Non-URMs with 4.0s and most course rigor are going to T100s. My son turned down a T30 for a T100 due to fit.

Look at academic, social, and financial fit and make your own ranking. Those are the students in the Class of 2024 who are not taking gap years.

NP. Similar story for our kid's high school.

Not the case for our non-DMV private with 88 grads.
Stellar truly top notch year.

What state? If it’s not MD, DC, or VA, no one here cares, PP. We already know what we are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DD goes to a small private. Each year about 4-5 go to T5s, about 25-30 go to T20s.
9th grade report card came out, A, A-, B+, B+, B-. She is guessing ranking 30 among students based on their discord grade discussion.
varsity sports.
student government.
non-profit set up with friends.
What efforts to get in T20.

She can go to UCLA. The don’t count Freshman year. But need all A’s going forward. Don’t push your kid beyond capabilities. Doesn’t sound like T-20 kid to be honest.

Same with Emory on freshman year…

Emory isn’t even T20

Touch grass

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS goes to a Silicon Valley private, the middle of the pack goes to schools like USC, NUY, and a bunch of UCs including Cal and UCLA. Their gpas are typically around 3.3-3.5.

This seems unlikely, UCLA median GPA is 4.0uw and UCs don’t care about private schools.

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Anonymous wrote:DS goes to a Silicon Valley private, the middle of the pack goes to schools like USC, NUY, and a bunch of UCs including Cal and UCLA. Their gpas are typically around 3.3-3.5.

This seems unlikely, UCLA median GPA is 4.0uw and UCs don’t care about private schools.

Np. It’s not unlikely if a cool is known did grace deflation.

At our private the UCs admit the wrong students (kids always turn down for T10)….

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DS goes to a Silicon Valley private, the middle of the pack goes to schools like USC, NUY, and a bunch of UCs including Cal and UCLA. Their gpas are typically around 3.3-3.5.

This seems unlikely, UCLA median GPA is 4.0uw and UCs don’t care about private schools.

Quite a number of privates in California has an acceptance rate in the neighborhood of 30%. Castillejia, pinewood, archbishop, to name a few.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DS goes to a Silicon Valley private, the middle of the pack goes to schools like USC, NUY, and a bunch of UCs including Cal and UCLA. Their gpas are typically around 3.3-3.5.

This seems unlikely, UCLA median GPA is 4.0uw and UCs don’t care about private schools.

Quite a number of privates in California has an acceptance rate in the neighborhood of 30%. Castillejia, pinewood, archbishop, to name a few.

Where did you get this number lol … from the publicly available data, the 2023 acceptance rate for Castilleja to UCLA was 9% (4/44) and Pinewood 0% (0/24).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DS goes to a Silicon Valley private, the middle of the pack goes to schools like USC, NUY, and a bunch of UCs including Cal and UCLA. Their gpas are typically around 3.3-3.5.

This seems unlikely, UCLA median GPA is 4.0uw and UCs don’t care about private schools.

Quite a number of privates in California has an acceptance rate in the neighborhood of 30%. Castillejia, pinewood, archbishop, to name a few.

Where did you get this number lol … from the publicly available data, the 2023 acceptance rate for Castilleja to UCLA was 9% (4/44) and Pinewood 0% (0/24).

Take a look at Cal acceptance rate. Castillejia 36%, pinewood 35%, archbishop 19%, ....