Princeton REA Thursday?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One from our Maryland private, kid with an impressive theater background.

If you don’t mind me asking, what’s the student’s gender? The one I heard about was a high-stats student—a girl who ranked number one from our local public high school

[Anonymous]

Absolute carnage from Princeton. It’s amazing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s also worth noting that full-pay students are the ones effectively funding this support. I fully agree with helping low-SES students, but it feels unfair that full-pay families end up subsidizing people who only pretend to be poor.

And then there are kids on Reddit asking, “My parents didn’t go to college in the U.S.—am I first-gen?”

Seriously

+100
Agree

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s also worth noting that full-pay students are the ones effectively funding this support. I fully agree with helping low-SES students, but it feels unfair that full-pay families end up subsidizing people who only pretend to be poor.

And then there are kids on Reddit asking, “My parents didn’t go to college in the U.S.—am I first-gen?”

Seriously

AOs want to rub shoulders with the rich and famous and romanticize the poor. Urban professionals are… looked down on.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, the only admits on Reddit are test optional kids from small towns. And a ton of rejections from the rest of the US with 1590+.

no dog in this fight but it's striking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1580, all As, 4.94 weighted, all 5's, highest rigor, rejected

How does a kid with this of rigor and stats not make it… unreal.
Poor kid.

[Anonymous]

Maybe they should just run lottery for mc kids

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1580, all As, 4.94 weighted, all 5's, highest rigor, rejected

How does a kid with this of rigor and stats not make it… unreal.
Poor kid.

Please folks, spread the word next year: unhooked top stats suburban kids are wasting an application applying SCEA. Forget about HYPSM and use your ED1 card; it’s the only one you’ll get.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1580, all As, 4.94 weighted, all 5's, highest rigor, rejected

How does a kid with this of rigor and stats not make it… unreal.
Poor kid.

Please folks, spread the word next year: unhooked top stats suburban kids are wasting an application applying SCEA. Forget about HYPSM and use your ED1 card; it’s the only one you’ll get.

I don't know. It really feels like if they just tell everyone the 25% of the unhooked mc kids to be admitted by lottery. It might make everyone feel better

[Anonymous]

correction. 25% of the remaining seats left for mc kids.

[Anonymous]

My kid is paranoid letters were bad,,,, a bunch of club’s captain ,,,,research 1550 plus all 5 rejected only hole is no awards and we don’t know if letters sucked all a IB

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, the only admits on Reddit are test optional kids from small towns. And a ton of rejections from the rest of the US with 1590+.

no dog in this fight but it's striking.

Those are the institutional priorities though. If you’ve done your research you would’ve known it’s always better to apply regular decision.

[Anonymous]

I regret not penn ed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolute carnage from Princeton. It’s amazing

They are one of the holdouts of test optional. Yale, Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, Penn all went test required last year.

That leaned only 3 Ivies for low scorers to hide behind test optional this year - Columbia, Cornell and Princeton. For that reason - applications probably are higher than usual for the holdouts.

It will be easier in the future when they go back to test required.

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