Anecdotal, but I'm hearing the ED results are worse this year across the board.

[Anonymous]

the only Princeton kids were Questbridge from our HS. including a kid who announced right after ED date, instead of right after QB date. I wonder how common that is - it's smart. You dont have to deal with the side eye that some other kids can give about QB, like "oh you got in bcs your FGLI" etc

All actual ED Princeton apps were mostly denied. Princeton doesnt defer a lot so always feels brutal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our public doing as usual. Kids getting deferred from Princeton. In at places like CMU and Middlebury unhooked with average stats.

This. No change in our public school results. Several in at UVA, W&M and a few privates along the lines mentioned by PP.

[Anonymous]

I’m hearing the same.

This summer/Fall several news articles were bashing ED practices. I wonder if this is why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the only Princeton kids were Questbridge from our HS. including a kid who announced right after ED date, instead of right after QB date. I wonder how common that is - it's smart. You dont have to deal with the side eye that some other kids can give about QB, like "oh you got in bcs your FGLI" etc

All actual ED Princeton apps were mostly denied. Princeton doesnt defer a lot so always feels brutal.

Princeton only offers Single Choice Early Action. Princeton does not have ED.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m hearing the same.

This summer/Fall several news articles were bashing ED practices. I wonder if this is why.

More kids are applying early now. EA/ED at schools was up. This could be part of it too, more competition.

[Anonymous]

I know a lot of the toughest admits aren’t out yet but so far I’m seeing great ED results this year and have only heard of one deferral. I have twins and their friends cover public and private pretty evenly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How can OP describe her conclusion as “anecdotal” yet true “across the board?”

Anecdotal for DCUM. Across the board in her world (which is a tiny fraction of the whole).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our public doing as usual. Kids getting deferred from Princeton. In at places like CMU and Middlebury unhooked with average stats.

This. No change in our public school results. Several in at UVA, W&M and a few privates along the lines mentioned by PP.

I feel like I've heard about a lot more deferrals at W&M and UVA. In past years haven't heard about many at them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the only Princeton kids were Questbridge from our HS. including a kid who announced right after ED date, instead of right after QB date. I wonder how common that is - it's smart. You dont have to deal with the side eye that some other kids can give about QB, like "oh you got in bcs your FGLI" etc

All actual ED Princeton apps were mostly denied. Princeton doesnt defer a lot so always feels brutal.

Princeton only offers Single Choice Early Action. Princeton does not have ED.

sorry that's right. I meant the SCEA early apps were mostly denied. really almost all denied. next week, when Yale and Harvard come out, I expect a lot of defers. But Princeton is a bit more brutal/realistic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our public doing as usual. Kids getting deferred from Princeton. In at places like CMU and Middlebury unhooked with average stats.

This. No change in our public school results. Several in at UVA, W&M and a few privates along the lines mentioned by PP.

I feel like I've heard about a lot more deferrals at W&M and UVA. In past years haven't heard about many at them.

Of course. 75% of ED applicants are deferred/rejected every single year. But the kid we expected to get in, did.

[Anonymous]

^kids (plural)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you seeing this too? My DS actually got into their school ED, but so many others that I was certain would did not. We were told this year would be easier but it doesn't seem so, at least not yet.

I am starting to see this now as the school's early results come in. More rejects and deferrals this year at certain schools that traditionally would take more early applicants from our school. I think the schools want to wait and see to shape a class. I think casting a wider net at RD may be necessary this year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our public doing as usual. Kids getting deferred from Princeton. In at places like CMU and Middlebury unhooked with average stats.

This. No change in our public school results. Several in at UVA, W&M and a few privates along the lines mentioned by PP.

I feel like I've heard about a lot more deferrals at W&M and UVA. In past years haven't heard about many at them.

Of course. 75% of ED applicants are deferred/rejected every single year. But the kid we expected to get in, did.

UVA in state ED acceptances went down by nearly 5 percent though versus last year. No numbers on W&M but my assumption is a decrease as well?

[Anonymous]

My oldest is class of 22 and this thread is written every year, followed by “brutal year for private schools” “brutal year for girls” “”brutal year for middle class public school kids” and then “you are wrong, kids are doing great.” Someone with more time than me can probably find these threads.

You can’t read anything helpful in the early tea leaves, and even if you could, nothing is universally applicable and we don’t really know the back stories. (One example of this is the valedictorian of current senior’s class needs merit money so might take a full ride over a more selective acceptance. If this happens, I guarantee someone say oooh, t5 admits were so much harder, valedictorian couldn’t even get in.

MAYBE in May, there will be some helpful guidance for next year (ie, there will be data on Michigan ED, for example).

But for now, speculation only makes things more confusing and people feel anxious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our public doing as usual. Kids getting deferred from Princeton. In at places like CMU and Middlebury unhooked with average stats.

Nonsense, unhooked with average stats do not get into either school.