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

[Anonymous]

What percentage of STA parents had Ivy League educations?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of STA parents had Ivy League educations?

8.3%

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:STA's college admissions are the best in the DMV. They consistently send about 30% to the Ivy League.

Did U Chicago join the Ivy League? That’s the only scenario where that statement could remotely be accurate.

Chicago is better than half of the Ivies.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, that would have to include Chicago. Still, admissions are outstanding. Something like half the class at T20 universities or T10 SLACs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am hearing of lots and lots of deferrals....

Agree, lots of deferrals. But the ship righted itself in the end with these deferrals flowering into acceptances. At my kid's school, the list is shaping up like most other years:

Bates
Bowdoin
Berkeley
Columbia
Harvard
Yale
Dartmouth
Cornell
Chicago
Indiana
SMU
Tulane
Wake Forest
Wash U
West Point
W&L
UNC
UVA
UT
Michigan
Wisconsin


The only real surprise, Duke!

[Anonymous]

And the parents of B students love to say that a B at STA/NCS is actually an A everywhere else. Total exaggeration and delusion.

Really? A 9th grade boy left STA last year because it was too challenging. He went into 10th grade at his public school.

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of STA parents had Ivy League educations?

While I do not know the answer to your question, I know several ivy graduate STA parents disappointed by their STA graduating child’s college results this DAR this year.. So much for legacy status....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of STA parents had Ivy League educations?

While I do not know the answer to your question, I know several ivy graduate STA parents disappointed by their STA graduating child’s college results this DAR this year.. So much for legacy status....

With one exception, all Ivy acceptances I'm aware of at STA went to non-legacy kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of STA parents had Ivy League educations?

While I do not know the answer to your question, I know several ivy graduate STA parents disappointed by their STA graduating child’s college results this DAR this year.. So much for legacy status....

With one exception, all Ivy acceptances I'm aware of at STA went to non-legacy kids.

Good. We need to do away with legacy admissions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of STA parents had Ivy League educations?

While I do not know the answer to your question, I know several ivy graduate STA parents disappointed by their STA graduating child’s college results this DAR this year.. So much for legacy status....

With one exception, all Ivy acceptances I'm aware of at STA went to non-legacy kids.

Good. We need to do away with legacy admissions.

And shift them to elite $50k private school graduate admissions?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of STA parents had Ivy League educations?

While I do not know the answer to your question, I know several ivy graduate STA parents disappointed by their STA graduating child’s college results this DAR this year.. So much for legacy status....

With one exception, all Ivy acceptances I'm aware of at STA went to non-legacy kids.

Good. We need to do away with legacy admissions.

You're right. I'm sure the only reason your kid didn't get into an Ivy was because of all the legacies.

[Anonymous]

Ivies are out — kids making final decisions,^ deposits going in. Time to call this a wrap and congratulate them on working hard to achieve what they did — whether they’re landing at that first choice or 10th choice.

This year has been rough and no college admissions cycle has ever been as challenging as this one. At least until next year....

CONGRATS TO ALL!!!!!

^ Waitlisters: you’ll do fine wherever you end up! Hang in there and focus on ending the year on a high note!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of STA parents had Ivy League educations?

While I do not know the answer to your question, I know several ivy graduate STA parents disappointed by their STA graduating child’s college results this DAR this year.. So much for legacy status....

With one exception, all Ivy acceptances I'm aware of at STA went to non-legacy kids.

Good. We need to do away with legacy admissions.

Only if the kids are not qualified. When two non-hooked people get themselves into an Ivy League school, have great careers and then get married and procreate, it’s very likely their kids are going to be very competitive. It’s a combo of genetics, opportunity and effort. Those are not the kids to go after, even if they do go to private schools.

[Anonymous]

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Ivies are out — kids making final decisions,^ deposits going in. Time to call this a wrap and congratulate them on working hard to achieve what they did — whether they’re landing at that first choice or 10th choice.

This year has been rough and no college admissions cycle has ever been as challenging as this one. At least until next year....

CONGRATS TO ALL!!!!!

^ Waitlisters: you’ll do fine wherever you end up! Hang in there and focus on ending the year on a high note!!!

bump to this post and I hope Jeff locks the thread after it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of STA parents had Ivy League educations?

While I do not know the answer to your question, I know several ivy graduate STA parents disappointed by their STA graduating child’s college results this DAR this year.. So much for legacy status....

I am highly confident that there are more parents at STA (and NCS, SFS, GDS) who went to Ivy League schools than there are students there who will get in - the Ivies just aren't going to take enough people from these schools for every legacy to get into his/her parents' school.