Where do the kids who used to feed into the Ivy League go now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ELON is getting Ivy level applicants? Um no.

Northeastern wasn't 10 years ago until they juked their stats.

Time for you to get over it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ELON is getting Ivy level applicants? Um no.

Northeastern wasn't 10 years ago until they juked their stats.

Time for you to get over it.

Not mad at all. And I won’t be mad when Elon does it. It’s a very hot school for New England students, where I’m from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The smartest kids these days often want the best deal, meaning tuition and financial aid are a big consideration.

College costs a lot more than it used it.

my oldest. got into Dartmouth and Brown and took a v. v. good deal and a top 30 school. we're full pay. kid will end up with 250 left in (and some out) of 529. for kids who either have grad school plans OR kids who are pursuing interests in areas that aren't traditionally high paying, this can make a lot of sense.

Agree this was very smart - will you share where she wound up? Would love to know whicj top 30-ish colleges give a significant amount of merit to high performing applicants.

[Anonymous]

At my kids’ HS (I have 2023 and 2021 grads), the kids who in my day would have been going to ivies or close to it are now going to colleges like Northwestern, Rice, Wash U, Emory, Tufts, CMU (oh and Cornell, which still seems to accept plenty), and Michigan, UCLA, Berkeley.

Interestingly, these kids don’t seem *that* different than their peers going to ivies, but either there’s something unapparent to me that distinguishes them or it’s somewhat fluke-ish the kid going to Wash U vs Dartmouth (probably some of both).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At my DD's private, the ones who did not get into Ivies (thankfully she did)-- the Ivy rejects went to:

*NE SLACs
*Stanford
*MIT
*Duke
*Northwestern
*U of Chicago
*Georgetown

The bottom of the class went to state flagships:

*U of Mich
*UVA
*UCLA
*UC Berkeley

What a stupid, obnoxious post from some elitist. Gross.

There is nothing wrong with being an elitist. Even "anti-elitists" went to elite Ivies--DeSantist, Cruz, Trump, Hawley, Vance get al.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At my DD's private, the ones who did not get into Ivies (thankfully she did)-- the Ivy rejects went to:

*NE SLACs
*Stanford
*MIT
*Duke
*Northwestern
*U of Chicago
*Georgetown

The bottom of the class went to state flagships:

*U of Mich
*UVA
*UCLA
*UC Berkeley

Same with ours. Though some of the top students who were VA residents went to UVA over some in your first group due to the GREAT $$ savings--half the cost of those schools.

Lol according to the “OOS flagship” thread nobody stays in state for UVA anymore. They all go to Indiana, Ohio State, Alabama or Colorado instead.

Liar. Not one poster said that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I once slept with 4 different women -in one weekend- at Elon.

Haven't we all?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At my DD's private, the ones who did not get into Ivies (thankfully she did)-- the Ivy rejects went to:

*NE SLACs
*Stanford
*MIT
*Duke
*Northwestern
*U of Chicago
*Georgetown

The bottom of the class went to state flagships:

*U of Mich
*UVA
*UCLA
*UC Berkeley

Same with ours. Though some of the top students who were VA residents went to UVA over some in your first group due to the GREAT $$ savings--half the cost of those schools.

Lol according to the “OOS flagship” thread nobody stays in state for UVA anymore. They all go to Indiana, Ohio State, Alabama or Colorado instead.

Liar. Not one poster said that.

Many pretty much did. Yes. They refuse to admit that the biggest driver for kids going to those schools instead of UVA in state is that kids aren’t getting into UVA. Willful blindness I suppose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At my DD's private, the ones who did not get into Ivies (thankfully she did)-- the Ivy rejects went to:

*NE SLACs
*Stanford
*MIT
*Duke
*Northwestern
*U of Chicago
*Georgetown

The bottom of the class went to state flagships:

*U of Mich
*UVA
*UCLA
*UC Berkeley

Same with ours. Though some of the top students who were VA residents went to UVA over some in your first group due to the GREAT $$ savings--half the cost of those schools.

Lol according to the “OOS flagship” thread nobody stays in state for UVA anymore. They all go to Indiana, Ohio State, Alabama or Colorado instead.

Liar. Not one poster said that.

Many pretty much did. Yes. They refuse to admit that the biggest driver for kids going to those schools instead of UVA in state is that kids aren’t getting into UVA. Willful blindness I suppose.

No, no one said that either. Do you really spend all day crafting up lies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The smartest kids these days often want the best deal, meaning tuition and financial aid are a big consideration.

College costs a lot more than it used it.

my oldest. got into Dartmouth and Brown and took a v. v. good deal and a top 30 school. we're full pay. kid will end up with 250 left in (and some out) of 529. for kids who either have grad school plans OR kids who are pursuing interests in areas that aren't traditionally high paying, this can make a lot of sense.

Agree this was very smart - will you share where she wound up? Would love to know whicj top 30-ish colleges give a significant amount of merit to high performing applicants.

Had a several offers, but took the USC deal: 4 year, full tuition merit scholarship. Super happy. No regrets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the NESCACs and similar LAC peers (mostly minus Amherst and Williams, which are almost on par with the Ivies) most certainly, so Colby, Bates, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Colgate, Hamilton, Swarthmore, etc.

St Andrews in Scotland - especially for the prep school kids. It seems to be a top choice for the ones who got screwed by the admissions process and wanted to choose something totally different.

NYU/USC/BU/Northeastern

Top-tier flagships - UMich, UVa, UC Berkeley, UCLA

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At my kids’ HS (I have 2023 and 2021 grads), the kids who in my day would have been going to ivies or close to it are now going to colleges like Northwestern, Rice, Wash U, Emory, Tufts, CMU (oh and Cornell, which still seems to accept plenty), and Michigan, UCLA, Berkeley.

Interestingly, these kids don’t seem *that* different than their peers going to ivies, but either there’s something unapparent to me that distinguishes them or it’s somewhat fluke-ish the kid going to Wash U vs Dartmouth (probably some of both).

Other than maybe Michigan, these are Ivy level schools whether DCUM wants to admit it or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At my DD's private, the ones who did not get into Ivies (thankfully she did)-- the Ivy rejects went to:

*NE SLACs
*Stanford
*MIT
*Duke
*Northwestern
*U of Chicago
*Georgetown

The bottom of the class went to state flagships:

*U of Mich
*UVA
*UCLA
*UC Berkeley

What a stupid, obnoxious post from some elitist. Gross.

There is nothing wrong with being an elitist. Even "anti-elitists" went to elite Ivies--DeSantist, Cruz, Trump, Hawley, Vance get al.

Those guys are just elitists in populist clothing. They're not anti-elite, just pro-power, and they know what sells. Could just as easily be tonic or elixir as "anti-elitism" with that lot.

[Anonymous]

Other than maybe Michigan, these are Ivy level schools whether DCUM wants to admit it or not”

You might want to do a little more research on Michigan if you think it can’t keep up with Emory & Tufts.

[Anonymous]

A simple explanation is that the ivies are losing their edge, and that there are lots of good schools these days.