what is the lowest ranked school you personally know a kid was rejected to but was also accepted to a top 30?

[Anonymous]

Waitlisted at Northeastern (most likely rejected). In at USC and UC Irvine.

[Anonymous]

NP. Haven’t read the rest of the thread but I’m in California where this is extremely common with the UCs. The problem is that many of the big public high schools here have massive grade inflation so ~50% of the graduating class has unweighted grades between 3.8 and 4.0 or something like that. Then there is no consideration of ACT/SAT. So, you get large high schools where a good number of the kids are essentially indistinguishable, but each UC can’t take (say) 200 kids from a single high school. So, there is a good element of luck. The kids call it the UC lottery.

I personally know kids with the following situations:

- in at Cal, rejected by UCSD
- in at UC Davis, rejected by UCSC
- in at UCLA, rejected by UCSB

I suspect if I asked around, I’d find more. It’s really common.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Waitlisted at Northeastern (most likely rejected). In at USC and UC Irvine.

Surprised. With a 6% acceptance rate you should have been admitted to Northeastern.

[Anonymous]

My kid went test optional so I guess CA schools liked the essays better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Waitlisted at Northeastern (most likely rejected). In at USC and UC Irvine.

Surprised. With a 6% acceptance rate you should have been admitted to Northeastern.

Northeastern is a safety for most DMV kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid's friend was rejected from Univ. of North Dakota but in at WashU RD

Bizarre. Major?

Pre-med (arts & sciences)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Waitlisted at Northeastern (most likely rejected). In at USC and UC Irvine.

Surprised. With a 6% acceptance rate you should have been admitted to Northeastern.

Northeastern is a safety for most DMV kids.

This is not true. Very, very few got in from our McLean area HS - Boston campus. This is from the college counselor based on last year’s info and what is known from this year so far.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Waitlisted at Wesleyan in at Stanford.

Wesleyan is not low-ranking.

OP here: I didn’t ask for low ranking. I asked about rejections from lower ranked schools.

So PP humblebragged.

(I doubt you are OP)

[Anonymous]

Rejected Emory, Accepted Princeton

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Waitlisted at Northeastern (most likely rejected). In at USC and UC Irvine.

Surprised. With a 6% acceptance rate you should have been admitted to Northeastern.

Northeastern is a safety for most DMV kids.

This is not true. Very, very few got in from our McLean area HS - Boston campus. This is from the college counselor based on last year’s info and what is known from this year so far.

Same. But there is a poster who likes to antagonize because they were not admitted, and it stung them bad, to this day. They loook for any "in" to discuss the school, and many are self created.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Waitlisted at Wesleyan in at Stanford.

Wesleyan is not low-ranking.

OP here: I didn’t ask for low ranking. I asked about rejections from lower ranked schools.

So PP humblebragged.

(I doubt you are OP)

You’re wrong. I am OP and I posted that comment about what I was asking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Waitlisted at Wesleyan in at Stanford.

Wesleyan is not low-ranking.

OP here: I didn’t ask for low ranking. I asked about rejections from lower ranked schools.

So PP humblebragged.

(I doubt you are OP)

You’re wrong. I am OP and I posted that comment about what I was asking.

Not PP. I think it’s an interesting question, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Waitlisted at Wesleyan in at Stanford.

Wesleyan is not low-ranking.

OP here: I didn’t ask for low ranking. I asked about rejections from lower ranked schools.

So PP humblebragged.

(I doubt you are OP)

You’re wrong. I am OP and I posted that comment about what I was asking.

Not PP. I think it’s an interesting question, OP.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

2023 DC never got off the WL at Tech but was accepted to Berkeley.

[Anonymous]

NEU's acceptance rate is 6%. It is a safety for no one.