Lessons learned so far: 2024-2025
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Anonymous
| Yes all WL movement is boys. |
Anonymous
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DC could’ve applied to one safety vs three. Waste of application fees and won’t be attending any of them.
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Anonymous
My DS applied to one safety this year and the decisions don’t come out for a few weeks. He has gotten into a EA reach, so I am glad we didn’t waste the money on 3-4 safety schools. DS really pushed back on applying to more than one safety. It was risky, but glad it worked out. |
Anonymous
Opposite seems to be true at our public school. All the girls are getting in at the Ivies and other top 10 |
Anonymous
Same. Female candidates tend to dominate at our school in early rounds. We've heard it's because girls are stronger earlier in HS due to brain/maturity/etc. and ready to write deep, mature essays prior to the summer before senior year. They are conscientous and focused and their early applications are fully formed. They're also more risk adverse and more determined to "lock in" a prestigious option that's attainable rather than spin the wheel on the randomness of RD rounds. There's also a bunch of great and prestigious options that have strong bumps in early rounds for women-only colleges: Wellesley, Barnard, Smith, Bryn Mawhr etc. Boys generally at our school (ofc there are some exceptions) want the risk and rush of multiple RD choices. They aren't as hung up on one dream option or prestige. They are also peaking later in HS and benefit from taking the test later or adding in senior fall grades (sometimes) and most need MORE TIME to think and write better, deeper essays. They are not ready to go in the summer before grade 12. So they need to wait for RD. The boys that do apply ED at our school do it only because of better odds: but their essays and applications are rushed and don't compare well to those by female peers. Smart female students know their best odds are in ED rounds before colleges consider gender balancing towards the end in RD/waitlists. That's when odds tip more towards boys. In Early rounds, odds are strongly in female students favor! |
Anonymous
| Boys are the minority in colleges. Who woulda thunk this day would come? |