List of Insta matriculation pages?
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Anonymous
Dang. I lost count of the Brown accepts. |
Anonymous
As always, the Princeton, Harvard, Cornell kids are all legacies (or recruited athletes). |
Anonymous
Interesting that page has 1700 followers! |
Anonymous
Yeah, Google the last names. Those kids are all double legacy. The Harvard kid who is not an athlete is like from a Harvard dynasty. It's the same story every time a school gets excellent ivy results: they're all hooked. |
Anonymous
You are a nutcase googling kids' names. Maybe we should report you. |
Anonymous
You are not very nice. Jealousy is not a good look and hopefully this kid doesn’t see your post. |
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I agree it is rude to refer to specific kids.
It is also important for parents (and kids) who've never been through the modern application process (particularly in the most recent years, where so much has changed) to recognize the truth about access to top colleges. There is a 99% chance your child will not even apply to one due to the lottery nature of it and the pressure to choose a realistic ED school. When you see these lists, remember that kids who ED to schools outside the Top 20 are being smart, and kids who go to lower ranked schools maybe took a shot and missed, but landed at a school that is nonetheless an excellent college and a great fit for the kid. Most of them are not "less qualified" by their high school experience to attend any of the colleges. And it doesn't matter: no college name on a diploma improves chances success or failure; looking around the real world should prove this to you. In the end, when lining up a final list of acceptances, kids choose the school they like best and that the family can afford, not the one USNWR ranked higher based on criteria that don't matter to the kids. Compare the outline of "things to consider" in books like Princeton Review to the USNWR criteria and you will see the huge differences in what kids are actually weighing in their choices of where to apply in the first place and where to go in the end. Of those who do apply to top schools over-discussed here, there is a ~95% chance they will not be accepted -- no matter where they go to high to high school or how great their resume is at age 17. By and large the students who are accepted would have been no matter which high school they chose. This is the bottom line truth. So while it is right and exciting to applaud the kids who have those rare choices, it is short-sighted to denigrate the 99.9% of kids who are going elsewhere, which is what they feel you are doing when you pit lists against each other. |
Anonymous
I'm the one saying that these kids with top admits are all legacy. I bring this up not to denigrate the kids but to say that it's nothing magical that Gonzaga did to get these kids into Harvard or Princeton. Conversely, there's nothing negative that GDS did this year to not get the typical number of kids into these schools (if that is indeed the case--I don't if the numbers are actually down this year). These kids are matriculating because 1) they have hooks 2) they are smart kids. It has nothing to do with where they went to high school. They would have had the same results from Jackson Reed, or Whitman or Sidwell. AND their matriculation at Harvard has absolutely NO IMPACT on your child's chances at Harvard unless you yourself (and likely your spouse and/or your parent, etc) went to Harvard. The kid would have been just as smart from any school and they would have the same hook(s). It bothers me when people credit (positively or negatively) a high school with an outcome that they had no impact on. ---Off soap box. |
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We’re all googling. |
Anonymous
+1 They did really well this year. |
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The school has been around for over 200 years and has very active, involved alum that stay engaged with the school. |
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| The list for Blair Academy is impressive but is it for Blair Science Math ÇS magnet? Schools seem quite diverse. |
Anonymous
You are going to report me (to the Internet police?) for looking up peoples' public Linkedin pages. LOL. You're an idiot. Um, that is what the Harvard grads of the world hope I do. No one is forcing them to post public Linkedin pages. |