RD Acceptances at Ivies

[Anonymous]

DS deferred to GTech for engineering. He had considered this moderate reach school given his high stats and overall EC.

Any experiences with students not offered acceptances to GTech but accepted to the Ivies in RD. Or is this a sign that he is pretty much shut out for the other reach and extreme reach schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS deferred to GTech for engineering. He had considered this moderate reach school given his high stats and overall EC.

Any experiences with students not offered acceptances to GTech but accepted to the Ivies in RD. Or is this a sign that he is pretty much shut out for the other reach and extreme reach schools?

Mine was rejected from UVa but accepted to one of the HYPS. This seems to happen often, as a friend was a rejected from UCLA and accepted to Stanford.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a college counselor for over 15 years, I’ve noticed something really different happening. Not long ago, high-achieving students automatically aimed for the Ivies. That just isn’t the default anymore. Sure, they still add them to the list, usually Regular Decision, but the excitement is often elsewhere. One of my top students recently told me that none of her friends at her MCPS school are even seriously considering Ivies. They’re much more energized by other schools. And honestly, as an Ivy grad myself who has visited my own campus and many others recently, I see exactly what they mean.

So many strong, motivated kids are choosing differently. Not because they can’t get in, the students on my roster can compete with anyone, but because the attraction has shifted. They care more about where they’ll feel connected, where they can lead and build things. The kids get it. Unfortunately, many parents haven’t quite caught up yet.

Hiring is changing too. Many companies, and even parts of government, now remove college names from early resume screens to reduce bias. What matters more is what students have done, not just where they went.

Back in the day, every top kid, strong test scores, great extracurriculars, high GPA, automatically wanted Harvard and Yale on their list. I helped plenty get in. These days, those schools are often added more to satisfy parents than because students feel genuinely excited.

The source of a college counselor’s conclusion is based on a single kid reporting that her friends are not applying to ivies?

Absurd

This was a troll post aimed at smearing Ivies. I was expecting the post to mention "kids these days are trading Ivies for schools in the South filled with good looking and happy students" but the author was a little more subtle than that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a college counselor for over 15 years, I’ve noticed something really different happening. Not long ago, high-achieving students automatically aimed for the Ivies. That just isn’t the default anymore. Sure, they still add them to the list, usually Regular Decision, but the excitement is often elsewhere. One of my top students recently told me that none of her friends at her MCPS school are even seriously considering Ivies. They’re much more energized by other schools. And honestly, as an Ivy grad myself who has visited my own campus and many others recently, I see exactly what they mean.

So many strong, motivated kids are choosing differently. Not because they can’t get in, the students on my roster can compete with anyone, but because the attraction has shifted. They care more about where they’ll feel connected, where they can lead and build things. The kids get it. Unfortunately, many parents haven’t quite caught up yet.

Hiring is changing too. Many companies, and even parts of government, now remove college names from early resume screens to reduce bias. What matters more is what students have done, not just where they went.

Back in the day, every top kid, strong test scores, great extracurriculars, high GPA, automatically wanted Harvard and Yale on their list. I helped plenty get in. These days, those schools are often added more to satisfy parents than because students feel genuinely excited.

The source of a college counselor’s conclusion is based on a single kid reporting that her friends are not applying to ivies?

Absurd

This was a troll post aimed at smearing Ivies. I was expecting the post to mention "kids these days are trading Ivies for schools in the South filled with good looking and happy students" but the author was a little more subtle than that.

Finally someone got it. I was wondering when someone would catch on.

I made an even more outrageous statement than OP and someone was arguing with my point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After looking at our high schools acceptance scatterplots, I noticed almost no one gets in at RD. At best, applicants get waitlisted to schools like Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia, UPenn. Most are just rejected to Harvard/ Yale. Does anyone else’s school experience this? Is this all due to yield protection?

Yield protection? Odd take

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a college counselor for over 15 years, I’ve noticed something really different happening. Not long ago, high-achieving students automatically aimed for the Ivies. That just isn’t the default anymore. Sure, they still add them to the list, usually Regular Decision, but the excitement is often elsewhere. One of my top students recently told me that none of her friends at her MCPS school are even seriously considering Ivies. They’re much more energized by other schools. And honestly, as an Ivy grad myself who has visited my own campus and many others recently, I see exactly what they mean.

So many strong, motivated kids are choosing differently. Not because they can’t get in, the students on my roster can compete with anyone, but because the attraction has shifted. They care more about where they’ll feel connected, where they can lead and build things. The kids get it. Unfortunately, many parents haven’t quite caught up yet.

Hiring is changing too. Many companies, and even parts of government, now remove college names from early resume screens to reduce bias. What matters more is what students have done, not just where they went.

Back in the day, every top kid, strong test scores, great extracurriculars, high GPA, automatically wanted Harvard and Yale on their list. I helped plenty get in. These days, those schools are often added more to satisfy parents than because students feel genuinely excited.

The source of a college counselor’s conclusion is based on a single kid reporting that her friends are not applying to ivies?

Absurd

This was a troll post aimed at smearing Ivies. I was expecting the post to mention "kids these days are trading Ivies for schools in the South filled with good looking and happy students" but the author was a little more subtle than that.

Finally someone got it. I was wondering when someone would catch on.

I made an even more outrageous statement than OP and someone was arguing with my point.

What’s outrageous is stupid troll posts. Find a hobby

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a college counselor for over 15 years, I’ve noticed something really different happening. Not long ago, high-achieving students automatically aimed for the Ivies. That just isn’t the default anymore. Sure, they still add them to the list, usually Regular Decision, but the excitement is often elsewhere. One of my top students recently told me that none of her friends at her MCPS school are even seriously considering Ivies. They’re much more energized by other schools. And honestly, as an Ivy grad myself who has visited my own campus and many others recently, I see exactly what they mean.

So many strong, motivated kids are choosing differently. Not because they can’t get in, the students on my roster can compete with anyone, but because the attraction has shifted. They care more about where they’ll feel connected, where they can lead and build things. The kids get it. Unfortunately, many parents haven’t quite caught up yet.

Hiring is changing too. Many companies, and even parts of government, now remove college names from early resume screens to reduce bias. What matters more is what students have done, not just where they went.

Back in the day, every top kid, strong test scores, great extracurriculars, high GPA, automatically wanted Harvard and Yale on their list. I helped plenty get in. These days, those schools are often added more to satisfy parents than because students feel genuinely excited.

The source of a college counselor’s conclusion is based on a single kid reporting that her friends are not applying to ivies?

Absurd

This was a troll post aimed at smearing Ivies. I was expecting the post to mention "kids these days are trading Ivies for schools in the South filled with good looking and happy students" but the author was a little more subtle than that.

Finally someone got it. I was wondering when someone would catch on.

I made an even more outrageous statement than OP and someone was arguing with my point.

What’s outrageous is stupid troll posts. Find a hobby

Why are so upset by my hobby? I love it.

[Anonymous]

That's wrong. Blair magnet had 4 accept to Harvard, but none went, all went to MIT instead.



Last year, 57 kids from DC's MCPS high school applied to Harvard. No one got in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To use Harvard as an example, they accept about 2000 students per year out of roughly 48,000 applications. Until recently, they would take roughly 1000 during the SCEA round and 1000 during the RD round. However, in recent years, they have stopped sharing the breakdown between SCEA and RD acceptances. It's fair to assume that the odds of acceptance for an unhooked applicant to Harvard in Regular Decision are astronomically low.

I suspect the numbers are similar for Princeton and Yale. And Dartmouth is very tiny. Unhooked students basically have no chance at these schools in RD.

Cornell seems like the only ivy that is somewhat accessible for smart unhooked students in RD, followed by Columbia. But in reality, smart and accomplished unhooked students are generally not going to ivy schools these days.

Also, once the school has admitted the athletes and legacy at ED/REA, they do not want overrepresentation from the same high school and hence no one gets in at RD. We noticed some kids have stopped applying to ivies at RD because of this.