Big 3 (or thereabouts) College Results - Class of 2021

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Heard the "safety schools" are also not going well. One needs a second level of safety school. Also known as JC.

True. DC was deferred at a safety (Ranked in the 60-75 range). Scattergrams from Big 3 show 100% acceptances (no deferrals) in the past 4 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College in the U.S. went from crapshoot to total crapshoot.

Now with no tests, merit, or recommendations plus new quotas for URMs and first time college it’s just like spinning a wheel who picks you for the x colored, x gendered, x race, x geography’s, etc.

Kids are even applying for math or stats (or engineering) just to get IN to the school, then quickly switch to liberal arts or sociology. Total game. So ridiculous.

Meanwhile everyone’s pissed there aren’t enough XYZ folks in finance, stem, med yet no one earns a relevant major or can demonstrate actual interest! Much easier to just do “journalism” blogging about it.

Careful your racism is showing

Not the PP. but you’re annoying. No racism. But I’d says tests don’t equal merit.

How does one show merit nowadays, outside of competitive sports?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College in the U.S. went from crapshoot to total crapshoot.

Now with no tests, merit, or recommendations plus new quotas for URMs and first time college it’s just like spinning a wheel who picks you for the x colored, x gendered, x race, x geography’s, etc.

Kids are even applying for math or stats (or engineering) just to get IN to the school, then quickly switch to liberal arts or sociology. Total game. So ridiculous.

Meanwhile everyone’s pissed there aren’t enough XYZ folks in finance, stem, med yet no one earns a relevant major or can demonstrate actual interest! Much easier to just do “journalism” blogging about it.

Careful your racism is showing

Not the PP. but you’re annoying. No racism. But I’d says tests don’t equal merit.

How does one show merit nowadays, outside of competitive sports?

How about support BLM? Denote your money to the cause?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College in the U.S. went from crapshoot to total crapshoot.

Now with no tests, merit, or recommendations plus new quotas for URMs and first time college it’s just like spinning a wheel who picks you for the x colored, x gendered, x race, x geography’s, etc.

Kids are even applying for math or stats (or engineering) just to get IN to the school, then quickly switch to liberal arts or sociology. Total game. So ridiculous.

Meanwhile everyone’s pissed there aren’t enough XYZ folks in finance, stem, med yet no one earns a relevant major or can demonstrate actual interest! Much easier to just do “journalism” blogging about it.

Careful your racism is showing

Not the PP. but you’re annoying. No racism. But I’d says tests don’t equal merit.

How does one show merit nowadays, outside of competitive sports?

Says a lot about college admissions that you consider competitive sports to be “merit”. Only in America.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's been a bloodbath at the state schools (Michigan, Wisconsin, UVA, UNC, UT).

+100 These private schools are doing their students no favors by gutting their GPAs and not providing any weighting of grades. Very few kids are getting into these top state schools. The ones at our school will likely also be accepted into Ivies.

Yes, it’s all SO unfair!

Anyway, this is a one year thing - a fluke year- not a trend as vaccine is here and class of 2022 will all be taking the SAT

Remember, the recording of scores and home address of test takers when they register is the source of a lot of college’s marketing target lists - the SAT will be back

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's been a bloodbath at the state schools (Michigan, Wisconsin, UVA, UNC, UT).

+100 These private schools are doing their students no favors by gutting their GPAs and not providing any weighting of grades. Very few kids are getting into these top state schools. The ones at our school will likely also be accepted into Ivies.

Yes, it’s all SO unfair!

Anyway, this is a one year thing - a fluke year- not a trend as vaccine is here and class of 2022 will all be taking the SAT

Remember, the recording of scores and home address of test takers when they register is the source of a lot of college’s marketing target lists - the SAT will be back

They almost have to bring it back. Without it, the colleges and universities are just flooded with applications.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do people want to move to an area with better public schools, even though they have to pay more for a similar house? The reason is that the education, on average, is much better in the better school: peers, on average, are better; teachers, on average, are better; facilities, on average, are better; course offerings, on average, are better. The expected education outcome is better. Otherwise, why would invest in schools at all?

Exactly! You also have some families who value different grades. I have two kids at top elementary school in DC, I plan to go private for middle/High. You have some people that do private for elementary and middle, public for High.

Good luck. Do you know this is easier said than done? At our top (JKLM) DCPS elementary last year, at least 12 kids applied to the top privates at 6th and one got in. ONE. It's not like you can just "go private for middle school" unless you go several tiers down for private.

I just love this. First, it's so barfworthy to say "JKLM." Plus it's so ridiculous to claim to be in the know about what every kid in your school is doing. "At least 12 applied and only one got in?" What are you doing, stalking your neighbors?

You're all so damned competitive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's been a bloodbath at the state schools (Michigan, Wisconsin, UVA, UNC, UT).

+100 These private schools are doing their students no favors by gutting their GPAs and not providing any weighting of grades. Very few kids are getting into these top state schools. The ones at our school will likely also be accepted into Ivies.

Yes, it’s all SO unfair!

Anyway, this is a one year thing - a fluke year- not a trend as vaccine is here and class of 2022 will all be taking the SAT

Remember, the recording of scores and home address of test takers when they register is the source of a lot of college’s marketing target lists - the SAT will be back

They almost have to bring it back. Without it, the colleges and universities are just flooded with applications.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do people want to move to an area with better public schools, even though they have to pay more for a similar house? The reason is that the education, on average, is much better in the better school: peers, on average, are better; teachers, on average, are better; facilities, on average, are better; course offerings, on average, are better. The expected education outcome is better. Otherwise, why would invest in schools at all?

Exactly! You also have some families who value different grades. I have two kids at top elementary school in DC, I plan to go private for middle/High. You have some people that do private for elementary and middle, public for High.

Good luck. Do you know this is easier said than done? At our top (JKLM) DCPS elementary last year, at least 12 kids applied to the top privates at 6th and one got in. ONE. It's not like you can just "go private for middle school" unless you go several tiers down for private.

I just love this. First, it's so barfworthy to say "JKLM." Plus it's so ridiculous to claim to be in the know about what every kid in your school is doing. "At least 12 applied and only one got in?" What are you doing, stalking your neighbors?

You're all so damned competitive.

I knew where kids applied because I was friendly with many parents in the class and we all talked. I know where kids ended up attending 6th grade because it was common knowledge and printed in the graduation program.
You're apparently the weirdo without friends among parents at your child's school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's been a bloodbath at the state schools (Michigan, Wisconsin, UVA, UNC, UT).

+100 These private schools are doing their students no favors by gutting their GPAs and not providing any weighting of grades. Very few kids are getting into these top state schools. The ones at our school will likely also be accepted into Ivies.

Yes, it’s all SO unfair!

Anyway, this is a one year thing - a fluke year- not a trend as vaccine is here and class of 2022 will all be taking the SAT

Remember, the recording of scores and home address of test takers when they register is the source of a lot of college’s marketing target lists - the SAT will be back

They almost have to bring it back. Without it, the colleges and universities are just flooded with applications.

+1

Apparently the Class of 2022 will *not* all be taking the SAT and ACT. This is a list of schools that aren’t requiring them for next year’s applicants:

https://www.sparkadmissions.com/blog/what-colleges-and-universities-will-be-test-optional-in-2021-2022/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College in the U.S. went from crapshoot to total crapshoot.

Now with no tests, merit, or recommendations plus new quotas for URMs and first time college it’s just like spinning a wheel who picks you for the x colored, x gendered, x race, x geography’s, etc.

Kids are even applying for math or stats (or engineering) just to get IN to the school, then quickly switch to liberal arts or sociology. Total game. So ridiculous.

Meanwhile everyone’s pissed there aren’t enough XYZ folks in finance, stem, med yet no one earns a relevant major or can demonstrate actual interest! Much easier to just do “journalism” blogging about it.

Careful your racism is showing

Not the PP. but you’re annoying. No racism. But I’d says tests don’t equal merit.

How does one show merit nowadays, outside of competitive sports?

Well rounded child who writes their own original essays. We can tell. (Well rounded is a huge problem for many snarky moms freaking out about DL in our top private). How about this: I bet you that Senior who wrote an open letter to the school to stand up
for the teachers’ right to choose DL or HL got into the top choice? It was mocked by a certain toxic group on DCUM, but I cheered that kid on the whole way and sure hope the full experience is on the essay. Heck, that letter should have been the essay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College in the U.S. went from crapshoot to total crapshoot.

Now with no tests, merit, or recommendations plus new quotas for URMs and first time college it’s just like spinning a wheel who picks you for the x colored, x gendered, x race, x geography’s, etc.

Kids are even applying for math or stats (or engineering) just to get IN to the school, then quickly switch to liberal arts or sociology. Total game. So ridiculous.

Meanwhile everyone’s pissed there aren’t enough XYZ folks in finance, stem, med yet no one earns a relevant major or can demonstrate actual interest! Much easier to just do “journalism” blogging about it.

Careful your racism is showing

Not the PP. but you’re annoying. No racism. But I’d says tests don’t equal merit.

How does one show merit nowadays, outside of competitive sports?

Says a lot about college admissions that you consider competitive sports to be “merit”. Only in America.

That’s is such a strange way to look at things. Of course it’s merit. So are other things. But it’s got sure not the standardized tests and cram
schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do people want to move to an area with better public schools, even though they have to pay more for a similar house? The reason is that the education, on average, is much better in the better school: peers, on average, are better; teachers, on average, are better; facilities, on average, are better; course offerings, on average, are better. The expected education outcome is better. Otherwise, why would invest in schools at all?

Exactly! You also have some families who value different grades. I have two kids at top elementary school in DC, I plan to go private for middle/High. You have some people that do private for elementary and middle, public for High.

Good luck. Do you know this is easier said than done? At our top (JKLM) DCPS elementary last year, at least 12 kids applied to the top privates at 6th and one got in. ONE. It's not like you can just "go private for middle school" unless you go several tiers down for private.

I just love this. First, it's so barfworthy to say "JKLM." Plus it's so ridiculous to claim to be in the know about what every kid in your school is doing. "At least 12 applied and only one got in?" What are you doing, stalking your neighbors?

You're all so damned competitive.

I knew where kids applied because I was friendly with many parents in the class and we all talked. I know where kids ended up attending 6th grade because it was common knowledge and printed in the graduation program.
You're apparently the weirdo without friends among parents at your child's school.

Just stop it. The so-called JKLM schools are not small. Did you talk to every single parent? I guarantee that you didn't, because there are enough "weirdos" there like me -- you know, the type who have better things to do than obsess over their kids and gossip over who is going where for 6th grade -- to prevent you from getting all the information that you appear to crave.

It is absolutely NOT "common knowledge" that 12 of your silly kid's classmates applied to private schools and one got in. It just isn't.

Weirdo.

It's wei

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do people want to move to an area with better public schools, even though they have to pay more for a similar house? The reason is that the education, on average, is much better in the better school: peers, on average, are better; teachers, on average, are better; facilities, on average, are better; course offerings, on average, are better. The expected education outcome is better. Otherwise, why would invest in schools at all?

Exactly! You also have some families who value different grades. I have two kids at top elementary school in DC, I plan to go private for middle/High. You have some people that do private for elementary and middle, public for High.

Good luck. Do you know this is easier said than done? At our top (JKLM) DCPS elementary last year, at least 12 kids applied to the top privates at 6th and one got in. ONE. It's not like you can just "go private for middle school" unless you go several tiers down for private.

I just love this. First, it's so barfworthy to say "JKLM." Plus it's so ridiculous to claim to be in the know about what every kid in your school is doing. "At least 12 applied and only one got in?" What are you doing, stalking your neighbors?

You're all so damned competitive.

Those public schools are great! We went from one to Big 3 and really had the best of the both worlds. Highly recommend

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College in the U.S. went from crapshoot to total crapshoot.

Now with no tests, merit, or recommendations plus new quotas for URMs and first time college it’s just like spinning a wheel who picks you for the x colored, x gendered, x race, x geography’s, etc.

Kids are even applying for math or stats (or engineering) just to get IN to the school, then quickly switch to liberal arts or sociology. Total game. So ridiculous.

Meanwhile everyone’s pissed there aren’t enough XYZ folks in finance, stem, med yet no one earns a relevant major or can demonstrate actual interest! Much easier to just do “journalism” blogging about it.

Careful your racism is showing

Not the PP. but you’re annoying. No racism. But I’d says tests don’t equal merit.

How does one show merit nowadays, outside of competitive sports?

Says a lot about college admissions that you consider competitive sports to be “merit”. Only in America.

That’s is such a strange way to look at things. Of course it’s merit. So are other things. But it’s got sure not the standardized tests and cram
schools.

So let me understand - test scores are not merit because they are the result of studying, tutors and cram schools.

Athletics are merit even though they’re the product of private coaching, expensive travel teams and practice.

Got it.