Harvard-Westlake Is The Only Elite Prep School Transparent With College Admissions. Shame on DC Privates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is interesting to me is this. The unhooked top kids with GPA 4.3 and above, so the best of the best at the best school in LA:
Applied/accepted

Amherst 13/7
Brown 66/7
Columbia 61/9
Dartmouth 35/4
Duke 25/6
Emory 14/4
Georgetown 40/27
Harvard 70/7
Jhu 26/4
MIT 42/3
Middlebury 5/0
Northwestern 46/4
Princeton 53/4
Stanford 59/5
Tufts 29/7
Vanderbilt 16/1
Williams 16/4
Yale 67/12
Wash u st L 34/6


It sucks to be a top unhooked kid at these elite privates.

Interesting - I think these are much better stats than the average good suburban public schools. If a top student applies early decision to Amherst or Emory (and checking okay with going to Oxford), they’ll probably get in. Unhooked acceptance rates at these college are all probably lower than their official rates and Harvard-Westlake rates are almost all higher than the official acceptance rates. The huge, pretty well ranked public school in my town only sent two unhooked kids to Ivies last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is interesting to me is this. The unhooked top kids with GPA 4.3 and above, so the best of the best at the best school in LA:
Applied/accepted

Amherst 13/7
Brown 66/7
Columbia 61/9
Dartmouth 35/4
Duke 25/6
Emory 14/4
Georgetown 40/27
Harvard 70/7
Jhu 26/4
MIT 42/3
Middlebury 5/0
Northwestern 46/4
Princeton 53/4
Stanford 59/5
Tufts 29/7
Vanderbilt 16/1
Williams 16/4
Yale 67/12
Wash u st L 34/6


It sucks to be a top unhooked kid at these elite privates.

Interesting - I think these are much better stats than the average good suburban public schools. If a top student applies early decision to Amherst or Emory (and checking okay with going to Oxford), they’ll probably get in. Unhooked acceptance rates at these college are all probably lower than their official rates and Harvard-Westlake rates are almost all higher than the official acceptance rates. The huge, pretty well ranked public school in my town only sent two unhooked kids to Ivies last year.

Yeah, but your public was free and Harvard-Westlake costs $300,000 for 4 years.

[Anonymous]

HW is under 50k/yr. Only off by 100k.
It is not cheap, but try not to fabricate your numbers wholecloth, for the sake of discussion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is interesting to me is this. The unhooked top kids with GPA 4.3 and above, so the best of the best at the best school in LA:
Applied/accepted

Amherst 13/7
Brown 66/7
Columbia 61/9
Dartmouth 35/4
Duke 25/6
Emory 14/4
Georgetown 40/27
Harvard 70/7
Jhu 26/4
MIT 42/3
Middlebury 5/0
Northwestern 46/4
Princeton 53/4
Stanford 59/5
Tufts 29/7
Vanderbilt 16/1
Williams 16/4
Yale 67/12
Wash u st L 34/6


It sucks to be a top unhooked kid at these elite privates.

Interesting - I think these are much better stats than the average good suburban public schools. If a top student applies early decision to Amherst or Emory (and checking okay with going to Oxford), they’ll probably get in. Unhooked acceptance rates at these college are all probably lower than their official rates and Harvard-Westlake rates are almost all higher than the official acceptance rates. The huge, pretty well ranked public school in my town only sent two unhooked kids to Ivies last year.

Yeah, but your public was free and Harvard-Westlake costs $300,000 for 4 years.

Under $50k in tuition probably isn't that expensive for rich LA families. Rich families in DC pay more for their kids private schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Briefly scrolling thru H-W's three year results, H-W appears to have a higher percentage of acceptances than the general acceptance rate of many of the schools listed (ie Yale acceptance rate is around 5%; HW Yale acceptance rate is over 12%). How is doubling the acceptance rate not great?

How is a 12% chance great?
( I have a better chance of being elected President)

The chances for any random eligible person might be roughly calculated as less than 0.00001%, considering the numerous social, financial, and political hurdles involved. However, for individuals already in politics or with significant resources and influence, the odds improve.

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure how forthcoming H-W actually is when it comes to their stats. Although they're omitting legacies and athletes, are they omitting URMs as well? These elite prep schools usually have a decent amount of FGLI kids on scholarships, too. That is also a hook.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure how forthcoming H-W actually is when it comes to their stats. Although they're omitting legacies and athletes, are they omitting URMs as well? These elite prep schools usually have a decent amount of FGLI kids on scholarships, too. That is also a hook.

I believe this is unhooked kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is interesting to me is this. The unhooked top kids with GPA 4.3 and above, so the best of the best at the best school in LA:
Applied/accepted

Amherst 13/7
Brown 66/7
Columbia 61/9
Dartmouth 35/4
Duke 25/6
Emory 14/4
Georgetown 40/27
Harvard 70/7
Jhu 26/4
MIT 42/3
Middlebury 5/0
Northwestern 46/4
Princeton 53/4
Stanford 59/5
Tufts 29/7
Vanderbilt 16/1
Williams 16/4
Yale 67/12
Wash u st L 34/6


It sucks to be a top unhooked kid at these elite privates.

It’s hard to gather information from this chart unless you have an additional column of how many hooked students there are. Last year 14 HW students matriculated to Harvard and 51 have in the past 5 years.

4 to Stanford last year and 31 in last 5 years.

And these are matriculation numbers not acceptance numbers. It seems worse if you ate at a rigorous private with so many hooked applicants.

So the 51 to Harvard, only 7 unhooked kids over 3 years were admitted so let’s double that and say 14 unhooked kids got in over 5 year and ALL attended - only 14 of the 51 who went to Harvard were unhooked admits. That’s reality and it sucks for the smart unhooked kids.

Harvard has made it clear that it is primarily a school for the already connected and/or the ultrarich. Its brand is its elitism, and by elite they do not mean the top students, they mean exclusivity.

Harvard Westlake sends 10+ hooked kids to Harvard a year. Some years as 15+ have gotten in, not to mention the Z list.

Getting into Harvard or any of those top schools unhooked is no small feat, but if you are a top student you will get into a top school.