Class of '26 Instagram College Decisions

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Anonymous wrote:There is sort of blood omertà among certain parents at these TT schools that they are indeed always everything they were promised to be and that anyone who feels different is just jealous. It’s weird and immature, and it means admin is never held accountable for anything other than getting rich kids into HYP, which isn’t a metric of anything other than getting rich kids into HYP. How do they once there, do they do well once they graduate? No one knows, because you aren’t allowed to ask. I didn’t quite believe there adults who believed in HYP the way kids believe in Santa Claus, but then my kid went to a TT. There are.

More to Duke and UChicago. Less to Harvard, Yale, Stanford. Dalton had 10 to Harvard this year.

Feels like the majority of people are happy with the outcomes for TT and the demand for the product is still there.

If the bullying and poor outcomes were more consistently an issue - people would not be applying.

your daughter and a couple of others had a terrible experience due to one rich girl at one TT school. It sucks but it sure seems to be an outlier.

Think Dalton, Spence and Brearley parents are happy this year. HM and Trinity parents less so.

Why HM and Trinity parents less happy?

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More to UChicago and Duke and less to Harvard, Yale, Stanford and other Ivies. Dalton had 10 to Harvard this year

Think Dalton, Spence and Brearley parents are happy this year. HM and Trinity parents less so.
Why HM and Trinity parents less happy?

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Anonymous wrote:San Diego State has got a 36% acceptance rate which is lower than - say - an acceptance rate at SMU (which regularly appears in TT instagram pages).

All schools have got stronger students and less academic students. Smaller all-girls schools (B, S) may be an exception but co-ed schools send students to a very broad range of colleges.

No one from a TT is going to Sd state. CA publics are heavily subsidized and the state has a massive population, hence why almost all its public four years have lower acceptance rates. CA ranks very low in public education, so it has a ton of unqualified applicants.

Honestly, who cares. I would rather send my dd to marymount and hope she enjoys her experience. TT kids look like they spent their childhood trapped inside a study room. Chances are most of the TT kids will never surpass their parents success and will need therapy once they realize school is not the real world.

A college buddy who played high school baseball in the founders league said all the kids were very nice but oddly timid and a little weird. The parents bragging about their child’s high school and telling their kids Cambridge or bust have the exact effect you’d expect they’d have on their kids

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Moving on - I haven't looked at some of the Coed TT schools. How have they done compared to this school? (SS TT). the $$, hooks, etc should be similar i assume.

5: Cornell, Chicago
4: Penn
3: Harvard, Northwestern
2: Princeton, Brown, Duke, Williams, Georgetown, Emory, Howard
1: Yale, Dartmouth, Amherst, Vanderbilt, Rice, Notre Dame, Michigan, Barnard, Colgate, Middlebury, Bowdoin, St Andrews, Haverford, Oberlin, Spelman, Rutgers, UCLA

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Anonymous wrote:Moving on - I haven't looked at some of the Coed TT schools. How have they done compared to this school? (SS TT). the $$, hooks, etc should be similar i assume.

5: Cornell, Chicago
4: Penn
3: Harvard, Northwestern
2: Princeton, Brown, Duke, Williams, Georgetown, Emory, Howard
1: Yale, Dartmouth, Amherst, Vanderbilt, Rice, Notre Dame, Michigan, Barnard, Colgate, Middlebury, Bowdoin, St Andrews, Haverford, Oberlin, Spelman, Rutgers, UCLA

I think there are very good results and they are consistent with HM. College counsellors might be recommending to save time and mental energy, ED Cornell or Chicago and be done with college admissions earlier during the year.

A caveat here is that TT kids getting into less prestigious colleges (think San Diego State) are less likely to post on Instagram but there are always a few students who end up in less popular schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Moving on - I haven't looked at some of the Coed TT schools. How have they done compared to this school? (SS TT). the $$, hooks, etc should be similar i assume.

5: Cornell, Chicago
4: Penn
3: Harvard, Northwestern
2: Princeton, Brown, Duke, Williams, Georgetown, Emory, Howard
1: Yale, Dartmouth, Amherst, Vanderbilt, Rice, Notre Dame, Michigan, Barnard, Colgate, Middlebury, Bowdoin, St Andrews, Haverford, Oberlin, Spelman, Rutgers, UCLA

I think there are very good results and they are consistent with HM. College counsellors might be recommending to save time and mental energy, ED Cornell or Chicago and be done with college admissions earlier during the year.

A caveat here is that TT kids getting into less prestigious colleges (think San Diego State) are less likely to post on Instagram but there are always a few students who end up in less popular schools.

it's interesting that the IG is very well represented at the private schools and the "white" suburban schools (Manhasset, Summit, Chatham) but STUY is barely filled out.

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Anonymous wrote:Trevor admissions this year:

6: Cornell
5: Tulane
4: Wake Forest
3: Michigan, NYU, Syracuse, Lehigh, Rochester
2: Brown, Chicago, Penn, Emory, Rice, WashU, Wesleyan, Skidmore, Northeastern, Richmond, Florida
1: Dartmouth, Princeton, Columbia, JHU, USC, Georgetown, Tufts, UVA, Indiana, Chapman, Franklin & Marshall, Davidson, Wisconsin, Penn State, Vassar, Holy Cross, Vermont, Kenyon, BU, San Diego State, Middlebury, Morehouse, BC, Colgate, Villanova, Dickinson, Spelman, FIT, Washington & Lee, UConn, Georgia, Maryland, Fordham

Any school claiming to be 2T would have Harvard and Yale. Certainly not San Diego state and uconn

is it fair to assume your DC go to the specialized schools in NYC?

No. If it came between Trevor and a specialized public then the latter every single time. I'd invest the 70k a year in the S&P and after 13 years each kid would have a couple million to buy a house and have some leftover as a cushion. That is a much better value than the eyerolls they'd get walking around the UES in a Trevor sweatshirt.

Where do your kids go to school?

A TT. One which enjoys a unanimous consensus. We applied to 2Ts and 3Ts as safeties, we did not apply to Trevor. I can see the appeal of some 2Ts and even some 3Ts that have resources for the neurodiverse or niche interests. I really find the justifications for Trevor to be non-existent.

OK. Congrats to your DC.

I think you mentioned that you are FA family. I think part of the difference is that for many families the $70k cost for Trevor isn’t a significant cost. They are willing to spend the money for a lower expected ROI compared to what you would want.

I never said we are a a FA family. Again, I don’t care if the cost is .01% of your annual income, it’s a total waste of money to go there and you have to be woefully misinformed to think it’s better than a public alternative.

Sorry, given your focus on ROI, cost and tone of speaking regarding Trevor I assumed that you were a FA family.

FA families are on FA because they don’t care about ROI in any aspect of their life and are therefore poor.

My “tone” is telling you what Trevor is. Anyone with ample exposure to a TT or even 2T can tell you it’s a disaster

The ROI of your time focusing on Trevor (which apparently you didn't apply to or attend) is pretty low.

Pathetic that you care that much about some random school.

Stop engaging with this troll. They seem to derail every single discussion with their BS.

I think it’s the troll from WBM (the train wreck that spun off of urbanbaby/ybm). Maybe it shut down and she/he needs a new home.

Actually, it is an excellent guess! You may be spot on.

Yeah. Usually the NY board is pretty respectful, but there had been an abusive weirdo here last week or so.

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Anonymous wrote:More to UChicago and Duke and less to Harvard, Yale, Stanford and other Ivies.

A lot of girls from the SS schools are going into those top schools for classics, English, History…

A lot of people here seem to value those elite matriculations for the more lucrative job career opportunities they supposedly provide. By that token, wouldn’t an econ degree from Chicago or even a computer science degree from Cornell put you on a more remunerative path than an English degree from Harvard? (And yes, I undestand that a lot of those girls may never need to work a day in their lives…)

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Anonymous wrote:More to UChicago and Duke and less to Harvard, Yale, Stanford and other Ivies.

A lot of girls from the SS schools are going into those top schools for classics, English, History…

A lot of people here seem to value those elite matriculations for the more lucrative job career opportunities they supposedly provide. By that token, wouldn’t an econ degree from Chicago or even a computer science degree from Cornell put you on a more remunerative path than an English degree from Harvard? (And yes, I undestand that a lot of those girls may never need to work a day in their lives…)

Super curious about this as well. For a long time I had assumed that the majors that are posted don't reflect what the students actually go on to major in but rather what they applied with. Had assumed that applying in as a more humanities oriented major yields higher odds of admission.

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Anonymous wrote:More to UChicago and Duke and less to Harvard, Yale, Stanford and other Ivies.

A lot of girls from the SS schools are going into those top schools for classics, English, History…

A lot of people here seem to value those elite matriculations for the more lucrative job career opportunities they supposedly provide. By that token, wouldn’t an econ degree from Chicago or even a computer science degree from Cornell put you on a more remunerative path than an English degree from Harvard? (And yes, I undestand that a lot of those girls may never need to work a day in their lives…)

Super curious about this as well. For a long time I had assumed that the majors that are posted don't reflect what the students actually go on to major in but rather what they applied with. Had assumed that applying in as a more humanities oriented major yields higher odds of admission.

there has to be some amount of "gaming" the system going on with respect to the admissions - probably easier to get into some of the schools with "Classics" major versus CS.
The kids probably have very expensive consultants helping them shape their application.

If the plan is to go to law school i think any of those degrees work.

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Anonymous wrote:More to UChicago and Duke and less to Harvard, Yale, Stanford and other Ivies.

A lot of girls from the SS schools are going into those top schools for classics, English, History…

A lot of people here seem to value those elite matriculations for the more lucrative job career opportunities they supposedly provide. By that token, wouldn’t an econ degree from Chicago or even a computer science degree from Cornell put you on a more remunerative path than an English degree from Harvard? (And yes, I undestand that a lot of those girls may never need to work a day in their lives…)

Super curious about this as well. For a long time I had assumed that the majors that are posted don't reflect what the students actually go on to major in but rather what they applied with. Had assumed that applying in as a more humanities oriented major yields higher odds of admission.

I doubt it. Too many enjoy writing books, articles, being in media / fashion, etc... It becomes a signal of socioeconomic class and how well-educated / cultured they are.

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Anonymous wrote:More to UChicago and Duke and less to Harvard, Yale, Stanford and other Ivies.

A lot of girls from the SS schools are going into those top schools for classics, English, History…

A lot of people here seem to value those elite matriculations for the more lucrative job career opportunities they supposedly provide. By that token, wouldn’t an econ degree from Chicago or even a computer science degree from Cornell put you on a more remunerative path than an English degree from Harvard? (And yes, I understand that a lot of those girls may never need to work a day in their lives…)

Super curious about this as well. For a long time I had assumed that the majors that are posted don't reflect what the students actually go on to major in but rather what they applied with. Had assumed that applying in as a more humanities oriented major yields higher odds of admission.

You can make a lot of money from a lot of schools if that's what you care about, and plenty of humanities majors also go on to lucrative careers in finance etc. But no one's going to switch from English to engineering if the latter is not their thing.

And then a lot these differences between the placements comes down to ED strategy rather than the school or the students. The thing about Chicago is that it's just as good as the ivies etc., but they have a "we just want the smartest kids" kind of admissions philosophy that leads them to take larger numbers of students from the top NYC privates provided they apply early. So at some high schools, large numbers of students are committing to Chicago before hearing from ivies etc. where they also would have a had a good shot had they stayed in the running. And then at other schools, you don't see that ED pattern with Chicago, and a lot of students are still doing well in RD.

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And then a lot these differences between the placements comes down to ED strategy rather than the school or the students. The thing about Chicago is that it's just as good as the ivies etc., but they have a "we just want the smartest kids" kind of admissions philosophy that leads them to take larger numbers of students from the top NYC privates provided they apply early. So at some high schools, large numbers of students are committing to Chicago before hearing from ivies etc. where they also would have a had a good shot had they stayed in the running. And then at other schools, you don't see that ED pattern with Chicago, and a lot of students are still doing well in RD.

What about Cornell? Also seems like an outlier among the Ivies in terms of how many kids they take from a lot of private -- and public -- schools (assuming from ED).

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Anonymous wrote:Moving on - I haven't looked at some of the Coed TT schools. How have they done compared to this school? (SS TT). the $$, hooks, etc should be similar i assume.

5: Cornell, Chicago
4: Penn
3: Harvard, Northwestern
2: Princeton, Brown, Duke, Williams, Georgetown, Emory, Howard
1: Yale, Dartmouth, Amherst, Vanderbilt, Rice, Notre Dame, Michigan, Barnard, Colgate, Middlebury, Bowdoin, St Andrews, Haverford, Oberlin, Spelman, Rutgers, UCLA

I think there are very good results and they are consistent with HM. College counsellors might be recommending to save time and mental energy, ED Cornell or Chicago and be done with college admissions earlier during the year.

A caveat here is that TT kids getting into less prestigious colleges (think San Diego State) are less likely to post on Instagram but there are always a few students who end up in less popular schools.

I have a senior at HM. This is exactly what they do. These kids aren't on DCUM wringing their hands over rankings or perceived prestige . . . they are figuring out their next steps and communicating with the older kids who have had or are having good experiences at schools other than the five or so that are DCUM Approved®.

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Anonymous wrote:Moving on - I haven't looked at some of the Coed TT schools. How have they done compared to this school? (SS TT). the $$, hooks, etc should be similar i assume.

5: Cornell, Chicago
4: Penn
3: Harvard, Northwestern
2: Princeton, Brown, Duke, Williams, Georgetown, Emory, Howard
1: Yale, Dartmouth, Amherst, Vanderbilt, Rice, Notre Dame, Michigan, Barnard, Colgate, Middlebury, Bowdoin, St Andrews, Haverford, Oberlin, Spelman, Rutgers, UCLA

I think there are very good results and they are consistent with HM. College counsellors might be recommending to save time and mental energy, ED Cornell or Chicago and be done with college admissions earlier during the year.

A caveat here is that TT kids getting into less prestigious colleges (think San Diego State) are less likely to post on Instagram but there are always a few students who end up in less popular schools.

I have a senior at HM. This is exactly what they do. These kids aren't on DCUM wringing their hands over rankings or perceived prestige . . . they are figuring out their next steps and communicating with the older kids who have had or are having good experiences at schools other than the five or so that are DCUM Approved®.

Those are both great and very prestigious places so I don’t follow what you’re saying. Having been through this at another TT though, I’m a big believer in applying where you want and not gaming things too much at the ED stage just to maximize chances of getting into a top 10 school if it’s not the school you actually want. But that requires being ok with the possibility your top choices won’t work out. In my experience though, even those kids still had great choices at RD so there’s want much opportunity cost.