What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied

[Anonymous]

I choose not to reply. I live vicariously through my children.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll play lowest SAT- I think posted 1020 540 English 480 Math…. Graduated 1991. I was in top 20 percent of my class GPA-wise

Accepted UMD NYU VT PSU Pitt
Rejected Georgetown

Attended one of the state schools due to cost. Never in a million years would I have been accepted to any of these schools today.

SINce 1991, there’s been a huge grade and standardized score inflations.

I remember about 7 yrs ago, one of my coworkers said her niece is on scholarship with a 4.0 gpa. Her plan was to become a medical doctor. In the old days, 4.0 meant straight As and probably the valedictorian of the HS. When my own kid applied to colleges, I learned 4.0 means 70th percentile. The niece has since graduated and now works at the doctors office as a receptionist answering phones.

Your bitterness has made you make a very unpleasant and distasteful post, recounting a story of a friend in a pejorative way and insulting a person who does honest work without all the details. You should be ashamed.

Yes there are many more high-performing kids than before. The culture seems to have changed to value academic performance more. Is that a bad thing?

Or are you suggesting that highschool and standardized tests are easier now than they were in 1991? Please provide data to support that.

You can do your own googling on the last point. But thanks for your feedback on your first point. I was only trying to be positive towards the PP who said s/he could never get into schools nowadays.

[Anonymous]

Late 70s
3.97 GPA, 1480 SAT, 4 APs
Admitted to Amherst, Duke, Princeton, Wesleyan, Williams, UVA
No rejections - obviously a different era

[Anonymous]

2003
4.3 weighted gpa, 1280 sat, 27 act
Orchestra and a few clubs

Auburn University- accepted honors no aid, attended, later transferred to UT Austin
Texas A&M- waitlisted, later accepted. Wanted to go here but by then I had made up my mind for a major they didn't have at the time.

My dad had a B- average in the 70's and got into/attended Ga Tech.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't remember. I graduated in 2002 from high school. Obviously I know where I went to college, but aside from remembering I'd be satisfied if I broke 1300 on the SATs, don't know any of my stats.

This. Who remembers this stuff so long? One of the slight comforts I don't tell my college kid about just yet is that several years out of college, no one on Earth will ever care again what her high school GPA and SAT/ACT scores were! I graduated from HS more than 30 years ago, and have zero idea what my "stats" were. They were likely high by today's standards but I was a big fish in a small pond so it's not comparable to kids at super competitive, academically very rigorous high schools in this region today. Got into the university I wanted early admission or whatever it was called back then, and I don't even recall finishing applications to other colleges where I'd started the process. Thank God, too, because the other options were never going to be good fits for many reasons.

Now, now, don't be judgey. I remember my "stats" to the letter but my spouse doesn't. To each their own. You probably remember other things that others don't.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:1985
3.7
1210
Harvard Rejected
Brown Rejected
Stanford Accepted Attended
Tufts Accepted
Wesleyan Waitlisted
Northwestern Accepted
Boston University Accepted

This is why Stanford should be the lowest of the elite. Their priority was not, and is not, in academics.

Please email the school, cc Guido Imbens and let them know your very valuable opinion. It will have a tremendous impact on everyone around the world. Please feel free to create your own version of "elite" on the toilet paper, while you think about it - Ivy alumna who had Dr. Imbens as TA.

Stanford student paper has been complaining about school’s fetish with athletes at the expense of non-athlete students. As long as its focus is on sports, the paper argues Stanford will always be below academic institutions such as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, MIT. Stanford took its rightful spot below these institutions.

They should have attended a different school. BTW, all the schools above with the exception of MIT have special athletic recruitment and my H went to one of them to play a sport. Brown has a weak spot for celebrities and royalty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ll play lowest SAT- I think posted 1020 540 English 480 Math…. Graduated 1991. I was in top 20 percent of my class GPA-wise

Accepted UMD NYU VT PSU Pitt
Rejected Georgetown

Attended one of the state schools due to cost. Never in a million years would I have been accepted to any of these schools today.

SINce 1991, there’s been a huge grade and standardized score inflations.

I remember about 7 yrs ago, one of my coworkers said her niece is on scholarship with a 4.0 gpa. Her plan was to become a medical doctor. In the old days, 4.0 meant straight As and probably the valedictorian of the HS. When my own kid applied to colleges, I learned 4.0 means 70th percentile. The niece has since graduated and now works at the doctors office as a receptionist answering phones.

Your bitterness has made you make a very unpleasant and distasteful post, recounting a story of a friend in a pejorative way and insulting a person who does honest work without all the details. You should be ashamed.

Yes there are many more high-performing kids than before. The culture seems to have changed to value academic performance more. Is that a bad thing?

Or are you suggesting that highschool and standardized tests are easier now than they were in 1991? Please provide data to support that.

You can do your own googling on the last point. But thanks for your feedback on your first point. I was only trying to be positive towards the PP who said s/he could never get into schools nowadays.

That’s a mature mea culpa on the first point and I genuinely admire you for it.

As for the second, the burden of proof is on the one making the claim.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1985
3.7
1210
Harvard Rejected
Brown Rejected
Stanford Accepted Attended
Tufts Accepted
Wesleyan Waitlisted
Northwestern Accepted
Boston University Accepted

This is why Stanford should be the lowest of the elite. Their priority was not, and is not, in academics.

Please email the school, cc Guido Imbens and let them know your very valuable opinion. It will have a tremendous impact on everyone around the world. Please feel free to create your own version of "elite" on the toilet paper, while you think about it - Ivy alumna who had Dr. Imbens as TA.

Stanford student paper has been complaining about school’s fetish with athletes at the expense of non-athlete students. As long as its focus is on sports, the paper argues Stanford will always be below academic institutions such as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, MIT. Stanford took its rightful spot below these institutions.

They should have attended a different school. BTW, all the schools above with the exception of MIT have special athletic recruitment and my H went to one of them to play a sport. Brown has a weak spot for celebrities and royalty.

True, except Stanford is the only one offering full rides to athletes. Ivies don’t do that. Additionally, Stanford pours extra money to athletes to make sure they graduate. I don’t believe ivies do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ll play lowest SAT- I think posted 1020 540 English 480 Math…. Graduated 1991. I was in top 20 percent of my class GPA-wise

Accepted UMD NYU VT PSU Pitt
Rejected Georgetown

Attended one of the state schools due to cost. Never in a million years would I have been accepted to any of these schools today.

SINce 1991, there’s been a huge grade and standardized score inflations.

I remember about 7 yrs ago, one of my coworkers said her niece is on scholarship with a 4.0 gpa. Her plan was to become a medical doctor. In the old days, 4.0 meant straight As and probably the valedictorian of the HS. When my own kid applied to colleges, I learned 4.0 means 70th percentile. The niece has since graduated and now works at the doctors office as a receptionist answering phones.

Your bitterness has made you make a very unpleasant and distasteful post, recounting a story of a friend in a pejorative way and insulting a person who does honest work without all the details. You should be ashamed.

Yes there are many more high-performing kids than before. The culture seems to have changed to value academic performance more. Is that a bad thing?

Or are you suggesting that highschool and standardized tests are easier now than they were in 1991? Please provide data to support that.

You can do your own googling on the last point. But thanks for your feedback on your first point. I was only trying to be positive towards the PP who said s/he could never get into schools nowadays.

That’s a mature mea culpa on the first point and I genuinely admire you for it.

As for the second, the burden of proof is on the one making the claim.

Well, it's a fact that starting in 1995 they adjusted the SAT several times and the end result was a higher average score. When I took the SAT the average score was an 890.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ll play lowest SAT- I think posted 1020 540 English 480 Math…. Graduated 1991. I was in top 20 percent of my class GPA-wise

Accepted UMD NYU VT PSU Pitt
Rejected Georgetown

Attended one of the state schools due to cost. Never in a million years would I have been accepted to any of these schools today.

SINce 1991, there’s been a huge grade and standardized score inflations.

I remember about 7 yrs ago, one of my coworkers said her niece is on scholarship with a 4.0 gpa. Her plan was to become a medical doctor. In the old days, 4.0 meant straight As and probably the valedictorian of the HS. When my own kid applied to colleges, I learned 4.0 means 70th percentile. The niece has since graduated and now works at the doctors office as a receptionist answering phones.

Your bitterness has made you make a very unpleasant and distasteful post, recounting a story of a friend in a pejorative way and insulting a person who does honest work without all the details. You should be ashamed.

Yes there are many more high-performing kids than before. The culture seems to have changed to value academic performance more. Is that a bad thing?

Or are you suggesting that highschool and standardized tests are easier now than they were in 1991? Please provide data to support that.

You can do your own googling on the last point. But thanks for your feedback on your first point. I was only trying to be positive towards the PP who said s/he could never get into schools nowadays.

That’s a mature mea culpa on the first point and I genuinely admire you for it.

As for the second, the burden of proof is on the one making the claim.

In or about 1991, 4.0 was the tops. No such thing as 4.3, 4.8 back then. Nowadays, some schools don’t seem to have caps. Once in a while, I see reports of some outrageous gpa’s, 5.6 let’s say. That’s grade inflation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't remember. I graduated in 2002 from high school. Obviously I know where I went to college, but aside from remembering I'd be satisfied if I broke 1300 on the SATs, don't know any of my stats.

This. Who remembers this stuff so long? One of the slight comforts I don't tell my college kid about just yet is that several years out of college, no one on Earth will ever care again what her high school GPA and SAT/ACT scores were! I graduated from HS more than 30 years ago, and have zero idea what my "stats" were. They were likely high by today's standards but I was a big fish in a small pond so it's not comparable to kids at super competitive, academically very rigorous high schools in this region today. Got into the university I wanted early admission or whatever it was called back then, and I don't even recall finishing applications to other colleges where I'd started the process. Thank God, too, because the other options were never going to be good fits for many reasons.

People with better memories?
People who took it more seriously?
People who put more effort into it because they applied to more than one college?

[Anonymous]

1990, no memory of GPA but I’m sure it was high by my town’s standards, 1390 SAT. I’m from a tiny working-class town and had no guidance from anyone on where or how to apply, so I applied only to Penn State, Pitt, and Univ of Pennsylvania because I thought they were all inexpensive state schools (no joke). Got into all, discovered that Penn was way too expensive and didn’t know how to find more aid, went to Penn State (which honestly was fine; I would have been so out of place at an Ivy). At the time, Penn State was thought to be miles better than Pitt, FWIW. My kid had a 1590 SAT and many of the other bells and whistles and was rejected by Penn. Amusing that for financial reasons we couldn’t claim legacy status!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Y'all still remember your GPA and SAT score from three or four decades ago?!

I don't remember my GPA at all. It was something crazy weighted on a 5 point scale. I had over a 5, even with several Bs and a C. The valedictorian had over a 6.0.

I do remember my ACT because we had to pick up our scores from the guidance counselor who also happened to be my track coach. Before handing it to me, she was all like, "Wow! You did great!" ...and it was a couple points lower than I was hoping for. It turned out that it didn't matter at all, but I do remember feeling that crushing disappointment at the time. It's a vivid memory

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Y'all still remember your GPA and SAT score from three or four decades ago?!

I sorta know my GPA. I have no idea on SAT.

1987 Grad.

'85 here, and I don't even remember where I applied, except for where I went and the dream school I got into, only to learn we couldn't afford it after all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1985
3.7
1210
Harvard Rejected
Brown Rejected
Stanford Accepted Attended
Tufts Accepted
Wesleyan Waitlisted
Northwestern Accepted
Boston University Accepted

This is why Stanford should be the lowest of the elite. Their priority was not, and is not, in academics.

Please email the school, cc Guido Imbens and let them know your very valuable opinion. It will have a tremendous impact on everyone around the world. Please feel free to create your own version of "elite" on the toilet paper, while you think about it - Ivy alumna who had Dr. Imbens as TA.

Stanford student paper has been complaining about school’s fetish with athletes at the expense of non-athlete students. As long as its focus is on sports, the paper argues Stanford will always be below academic institutions such as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, MIT. Stanford took its rightful spot below these institutions.

They should have attended a different school. BTW, all the schools above with the exception of MIT have special athletic recruitment and my H went to one of them to play a sport. Brown has a weak spot for celebrities and royalty.

True, except Stanford is the only one offering full rides to athletes. Ivies don’t do that. Additionally, Stanford pours extra money to athletes to make sure they graduate. I don’t believe ivies do that.

I totally suport full rides for athletes, these kids are exceptional - they spend an insane amount of time training and also studying. It takes a lot of discipline to be able to do both and the ability to work well with others is a skill that lasts a lifetime and preps them for leadership positions. DC1's BFF did swimming and that kid was up at 4 AM so many times a week, including winter time. Brown had special tutors for athletes and the football team had their own Wall Street tour and separate recruiting events.