If your high-scorer didn't get in anywhere: where are they now?

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Anonymous wrote:Barnard

Barnard of the one digit acceptance rate?

If you say so. Barnard ain’t Stanford now is it? Or Yale.

Sorry you feel this way about your kid’s school!

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Anonymous wrote:Mine is at Wisconsin, which was a safety. He has said a couple of times that if he had known this was where he was going, he would have had a little more fun in high school and wouldn't have killed himself taking such hard classes. In the end, no one understood what happened -- other than the two rounds of ED didn't work out and then he was stuck in the seventh circle of waitlist hell until early July. He got into one or two schools that might be considered better than Wisconsin but there are more opportunities in his major in Madison. I wish the process hadn't sucked so much and I wish he had been more proud of how it turned out but at the end of the day it doesn't really matter and he is happy.

Then he might not have gotten into Wisconsin!

Doesn't seem that way based on the GPAs/scores/ECs of the other kids who went from his school. He graduated in the top 10 of a pretty good NYC private and had a 1550 (perfect math score) SAT. Took such high level math in high school that he couldn't even place into it at Wisconsin. He definitely didn't need this to get in. His first semester has been sort of a joke to be honest and even though he's in the honors college my impression is it won't ramp up until probably second semester sophomore year. Whatever, he's enjoying this time and looks at it like he's getting the fun he missed in high school. It's a good lesson about life balance.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes: UMD, WM, CWRU, Pitt, Lehigh, BU, UMN, Ohio St.
No: Harvard, Penn, UVA, NEU

Extremely surprised at Northeastern. Did you submit a 1400 or something? They hate submitters that are below median.

It was a dang 1560. EA, deferred, WL. 2023 seemed a little chaotic at NEU.

Same for DD with 1570 in 2023

I genuinely don’t get this. How is Northeastern rejecting kids with 1570 on the SATs? I know I’m old, but are there that many kids with scores like that out there?

Yield protection. They care a lot about college rankings so they are helped by letting fewer kids in who they don’t think will actually attend.

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Anonymous wrote:The world has changed - State Schools are harder to get into. Who would've thought VA Tech and UVA is not where a good percentage of a VA HS went to.

The hard to get into schools of ole days are not that hard: I was surprised to see Rensselaer is like 60% it was 20-30% just 10 - 15 years ago. Vassar is getting dragged through the mud on this forum - that used to be hard to get into.

And easier schools are now hard: Swarthmore.why? besides the dukakis bump - anything else?

Some are severely under valued.
if Bryn Mawr College has a 98% medical school acceptance rate - why is the acceptance rate to the college only 33%. I thought medical school as impossible to get into these days. If my kid said medical school - I'm thinking this school for Bachelors. https://www.brynmawr.edu/postbac/about-program/director#:~:text=Our%20graduates%27%20history%20of%20success,rate%20consistently%20exceeds%2098%20percent.

Feel like we are in a college bubble - why apply to xyz? because everyone else is and no one will respect you if you don't go there. And one day - all the single digit acceptance colleges will drop to double digits. Investment devalued. See Rensselaer.

As far as I can tell, it's harder to get in everywhere. Vassar was never hard to get into. When I graduated HS 30 years ago, Vassar was barely above a safety. UVa was pretty hard, but not nearly as difficult as it is now (even though its ranking has dropped), and RPI was also not as difficult as it is now. UCLA was considered a safety back then, and now it's top 30. I can't think of any school that is actually easier to get into than it was 25 years ago.

UCLA is 15 to be exact.

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UVA

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A close friend’s high score DC made the mistake of applying to all super reaches with one safety and ended up at the safety (RIT), which is still an excellent school. DC goes to the same school one grade lower, she heard his mistake was he didn’t check who else in his class applied to the same top schools. He was the #2 or 3 applying to reaches that typically only take 1 or 2 kids max from our HS, or the other kids applying has his similar stats but better sports or are legacy. My friend told me a classmate with a super profile (rich, top scorer, top athlete, great ECs, black, this was pre-supreme court case, double Ivy legacy) applied to all the reaches her son applied to and got accepted into almost all, essentially taking up one spot for each school in his entire list.

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Anonymous wrote:Did they go to a safety? Which safety? Did they stay? Did they take a gap year?

1560 uva in state. WL or rejected every other T25. Asian male. Loves uva!! 2023 was the hardest graduation year for our high school for anyone without hooks

I feel 2023 was the hardest year for MCPS grads, too. DS also rejected to T15 with super high stats (1580 sat), granted he's a CS major.

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Pitt

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The title of this post is so gross I came on here expecting the thrashing OP deserves, and instead people are actually agreeing that accepting a legitimate offer constitutes not getting in “anywhere.” What’s more, many of these “nowhere” schools are reaches for most high-performing students (e.g. Barnard, UVA). The lack of perspective on this board is staggering.

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Anonymous wrote:The title of this post is so gross I came on here expecting the thrashing OP deserves, and instead people are actually agreeing that accepting a legitimate offer constitutes not getting in “anywhere.” What’s more, many of these “nowhere” schools are reaches for most high-performing students (e.g. Barnard, UVA). The lack of perspective on this board is staggering.

Ok

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Anonymous wrote:The title of this post is so gross I came on here expecting the thrashing OP deserves, and instead people are actually agreeing that accepting a legitimate offer constitutes not getting in “anywhere.” What’s more, many of these “nowhere” schools are reaches for most high-performing students (e.g. Barnard, UVA). The lack of perspective on this board is staggering.

The entire self-absorbed Boston-NYC-Philly-DC corridor lacks perspective.

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Anonymous wrote:The title of this post is so gross I came on here expecting the thrashing OP deserves, and instead people are actually agreeing that accepting a legitimate offer constitutes not getting in “anywhere.” What’s more, many of these “nowhere” schools are reaches for most high-performing students (e.g. Barnard, UVA). The lack of perspective on this board is staggering.

The entire self-absorbed Boston-NYC-Philly-DC corridor lacks perspective.

let's be honest, that's what this anonymous forum is for.

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I’m glad I live in SEC country. Plenty of high scoring kids here are happy at their state flagships and never pined after the Ivies.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m glad I live in SEC country. Plenty of high scoring kids here are happy at their state flagships and never pined after the Ivies.

Midwest too. Valedictorians attending directionals, honor students going to community colleges. You gotta love it.

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Anonymous wrote:If they really were top scorers with no red flags, its very unlikely they'll end up at a safety. Well, that is if they applied to more top schools other than HYSPM. Most would get into at least one T25.

My kids with high scores did not apply to any of the schools in the "top 25."

Such a stupid retort. If you didn't apply you will never get in. Get it??

The point is that posters who have not been through the process yet seem to assume that every high stats kid wants to go to HYP. They don’t. So when you see kids who are high stats who are not going to the schools that you deem worthy, you were just being an idiot.