Where did you average private school kid end up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Wake thing works at our non-DMV based private for mid to lower third of the class. It is a very respected way to solve your kids college placement issues early in the process.

Not in DMV. Check your own schools stats. Talk to older parents. What works at my school may not work at yours.

Sure, they take the bottom third from your private and from the top third at dmv schools. I’m sure that’s true and you aren’t a troll. Same for the BC info, clearly false.

Op you got some helpful advice from some posters but not this one.

Where do you think median students at Exeter Riverdale Roxbury Latin and Collegiate go? Do you think they are uncompetitive for BC admission? Keep in mind there are about 15+ highly selective northeast boarding schools, 20 NYC day schools, and 15+ terrific suburban day schools (Brunswick) in the northeast that fit this profile of a median student having a good shot at BC. At many of them Georgetown is a median outcome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Wake thing works at our non-DMV based private for mid to lower third of the class. It is a very respected way to solve your kids college placement issues early in the process.

Not in DMV. Check your own schools stats. Talk to older parents. What works at my school may not work at yours.

Sure, they take the bottom third from your private and from the top third at dmv schools. I’m sure that’s true and you aren’t a troll. Same for the BC info, clearly false.

Op you got some helpful advice from some posters but not this one.

BC much harder than Wake ED0 at our non-DMV private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Wake thing works at our non-DMV based private for mid to lower third of the class. It is a very respected way to solve your kids college placement issues early in the process.

Not in DMV. Check your own schools stats. Talk to older parents. What works at my school may not work at yours.

Sure, they take the bottom third from your private and from the top third at dmv schools. I’m sure that’s true and you aren’t a troll. Same for the BC info, clearly false.

Op you got some helpful advice from some posters but not this one.

BC much harder than Wake ED0 at our non-DMV private.

It’s such a self own to admit your kids school sends top third students to Wake.

[Anonymous]

OP: I think no one will really know about how to advise for next year until all results are out and until waitlists move some, for the population you're talking about here. (As you likely know, you really need to filter out the responses here from the braggarts and the belittlers.) This year has been bonkers and unpredictable, especially for accomplished but not showstopper kids, and the number of applications are WAY up and deferrals and waitlists common for schools that might have been safeties previously.

This next application cycle will involve changing demographics (fewer students applying because of the "demographic cliff) but also more small colleges closing. We also have NO idea how the current administration will affect colleges at large. Universities are a big enemy right now and financial aid is up in the air, as the news will readily show. So even with this year's information, next year will be different, and the best any of us can do is not put too much reliance on any one single place of information and to come back to some of the basics. Big school or smaller? Rural or urban or college town? Part of the country where the kid would be interested in living (or not). Within those parameters, you and DC can better identify the range of places that might be good shots.

There's a good thread on what folks would have done differently. https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1253386.page
A few things I would have done--really paid attention to the college counselor's advice on schools NOT because those were good choices for our DC but because it should have given me a clearer warning that she wasn't going to be much help and was working from knowledge that didn't have much relevance in this time and place (and that was at a fancy private school in the DMV; we should have hired an outside college counselor, much as I hated the idea at the time and still do). I also underestimated how important the numbers are--especially test scores, and that will be all the more the case with more schools moving away from test optional, but that really matter .

Lastly, reiterating my notes about filtering above, I think many parents here in the DMV who don't overcontrol the process and their kids' lives aren't as present here on DCUM. There are generous folks here (including those with high achievers), and so listen mostly to them. In-person conversations with fellow parents and friends who have seen their kids through the college admissions process can be just the level-headedness that you need in times of overwhelm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Wake thing works at our non-DMV based private for mid to lower third of the class. It is a very respected way to solve your kids college placement issues early in the process.

Not in DMV. Check your own schools stats. Talk to older parents. What works at my school may not work at yours.

Sure, they take the bottom third from your private and from the top third at dmv schools. I’m sure that’s true and you aren’t a troll. Same for the BC info, clearly false.

Op you got some helpful advice from some posters but not this one.

Where do you think median students at Exeter Riverdale Roxbury Latin and Collegiate go? Do you think they are uncompetitive for BC admission? Keep in mind there are about 15+ highly selective northeast boarding schools, 20 NYC day schools, and 15+ terrific suburban day schools (Brunswick) in the northeast that fit this profile of a median student having a good shot at BC. At many of them Georgetown is a median outcome.

This has absolutely nothing to do with what op asked, and pretty much nothing to do the demo of this board.Perhaps go back and read the description of the school her child attends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP: I think no one will really know about how to advise for next year until all results are out and until waitlists move some, for the population you're talking about here. (As you likely know, you really need to filter out the responses here from the braggarts and the belittlers.) This year has been bonkers and unpredictable, especially for accomplished but not showstopper kids, and the number of applications are WAY up and deferrals and waitlists common for schools that might have been safeties previously.

This next application cycle will involve changing demographics (fewer students applying because of the "demographic cliff) but also more small colleges closing. We also have NO idea how the current administration will affect colleges at large. Universities are a big enemy right now and financial aid is up in the air, as the news will readily show. So even with this year's information, next year will be different, and the best any of us can do is not put too much reliance on any one single place of information and to come back to some of the basics. Big school or smaller? Rural or urban or college town? Part of the country where the kid would be interested in living (or not). Within those parameters, you and DC can better identify the range of places that might be good shots.

There's a good thread on what folks would have done differently. https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1253386.page
A few things I would have done--really paid attention to the college counselor's advice on schools NOT because those were good choices for our DC but because it should have given me a clearer warning that she wasn't going to be much help and was working from knowledge that didn't have much relevance in this time and place (and that was at a fancy private school in the DMV; we should have hired an outside college counselor, much as I hated the idea at the time and still do). I also underestimated how important the numbers are--especially test scores, and that will be all the more the case with more schools moving away from test optional, but that really matter .

Lastly, reiterating my notes about filtering above, I think many parents here in the DMV who don't overcontrol the process and their kids' lives aren't as present here on DCUM. There are generous folks here (including those with high achievers), and so listen mostly to them. In-person conversations with fellow parents and friends who have seen their kids through the college admissions process can be just the level-headedness that you need in times of overwhelm.

Agree with all of this, solid advice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Wake thing works at our non-DMV based private for mid to lower third of the class. It is a very respected way to solve your kids college placement issues early in the process.

Not in DMV. Check your own schools stats. Talk to older parents. What works at my school may not work at yours.

Sure, they take the bottom third from your private and from the top third at dmv schools. I’m sure that’s true and you aren’t a troll. Same for the BC info, clearly false.

Op you got some helpful advice from some posters but not this one.

BC much harder than Wake ED0 at our non-DMV private.

They are the same at our Maryland private. BC seems to be willing to drop standards more for sibling legacies. YMMV.

[Anonymous]

So this may sound crazy to you; but if you can get from your private HS's CCO (1) the raw admissions for last (few) years and (2) matriculations for same period.
Then input into excel or a chart.
Then ask the paid version of AI to comprehensively examine the data and identify which schools the xy% of the class appears to be admitted to and appears to matriculate; also identify which schools tend to love your HS. It will tell you where the middle gets in (generally).

This is what a private college counselor would do. I did this with our school's data (last 3 years) and the paid version of Claude and GPT. It was a great analysis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Wake thing works at our non-DMV based private for mid to lower third of the class. It is a very respected way to solve your kids college placement issues early in the process.

Not in DMV. Check your own schools stats. Talk to older parents. What works at my school may not work at yours.

Sure, they take the bottom third from your private and from the top third at dmv schools. I’m sure that’s true and you aren’t a troll. Same for the BC info, clearly false.

Op you got some helpful advice from some posters but not this one.

BC much harder than Wake ED0 at our non-DMV private.

It’s such a self own to admit your kids school sends top third students to Wake.

You sound like a truly lovely person with no issues you need to work through. Bless your heart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Wake thing works at our non-DMV based private for mid to lower third of the class. It is a very respected way to solve your kids college placement issues early in the process.

Not in DMV. Check your own schools stats. Talk to older parents. What works at my school may not work at yours.

Sure, they take the bottom third from your private and from the top third at dmv schools. I’m sure that’s true and you aren’t a troll. Same for the BC info, clearly false.

Op you got some helpful advice from some posters but not this one.

BC much harder than Wake ED0 at our non-DMV private.

It’s such a self own to admit your kids school sends top third students to Wake.

You sound like a truly lovely person with no issues you need to work through. Bless your heart.

+1 I have a top (possibly actual top and if not top 5 in their school) kid with mid 1500s going to a school similar to wake because of merit and, more importantly, that’s where they wanted to go.

[Anonymous]

LACs in the 40-60 USNWR range: Union, Dickinson, Sewanee, Gettysburg, Conn College, Rhodes, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Wake thing works at our non-DMV based private for mid to lower third of the class. It is a very respected way to solve your kids college placement issues early in the process.

Not in DMV. Check your own schools stats. Talk to older parents. What works at my school may not work at yours.

Sure, they take the bottom third from your private and from the top third at dmv schools. I’m sure that’s true and you aren’t a troll. Same for the BC info, clearly false.

Op you got some helpful advice from some posters but not this one.

BC much harder than Wake ED0 at our non-DMV private.

It’s such a self own to admit your kids school sends top third students to Wake.

You sound like a truly lovely person with no issues you need to work through. Bless your heart.

+1 I have a top (possibly actual top and if not top 5 in their school) kid with mid 1500s going to a school similar to wake because of merit and, more importantly, that’s where they wanted to go.

Should’ve saved for Duke or Vanderbilt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Wake thing works at our non-DMV based private for mid to lower third of the class. It is a very respected way to solve your kids college placement issues early in the process.

Not in DMV. Check your own schools stats. Talk to older parents. What works at my school may not work at yours.

Sure, they take the bottom third from your private and from the top third at dmv schools. I’m sure that’s true and you aren’t a troll. Same for the BC info, clearly false.

Op you got some helpful advice from some posters but not this one.

BC much harder than Wake ED0 at our non-DMV private.

It’s such a self own to admit your kids school sends top third students to Wake.

You sound like a truly lovely person with no issues you need to work through. Bless your heart.

Do you recommend paying 40+k a year for a private school where top third students go to Wake?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Wake thing works at our non-DMV based private for mid to lower third of the class. It is a very respected way to solve your kids college placement issues early in the process.

Not in DMV. Check your own schools stats. Talk to older parents. What works at my school may not work at yours.

Sure, they take the bottom third from your private and from the top third at dmv schools. I’m sure that’s true and you aren’t a troll. Same for the BC info, clearly false.

Op you got some helpful advice from some posters but not this one.

Where do you think median students at Exeter Riverdale Roxbury Latin and Collegiate go? Do you think they are uncompetitive for BC admission? Keep in mind there are about 15+ highly selective northeast boarding schools, 20 NYC day schools, and 15+ terrific suburban day schools (Brunswick) in the northeast that fit this profile of a median student having a good shot at BC. At many of them Georgetown is a median outcome.

This has absolutely nothing to do with what op asked, and pretty much nothing to do the demo of this board.Perhaps go back and read the description of the school her child attends.

I am confident a median student at her child’s private has a decent shot at BC, especially if applying early.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Wake thing works at our non-DMV based private for mid to lower third of the class. It is a very respected way to solve your kids college placement issues early in the process.

Not in DMV. Check your own schools stats. Talk to older parents. What works at my school may not work at yours.

Sure, they take the bottom third from your private and from the top third at dmv schools. I’m sure that’s true and you aren’t a troll. Same for the BC info, clearly false.

Op you got some helpful advice from some posters but not this one.

Where do you think median students at Exeter Riverdale Roxbury Latin and Collegiate go? Do you think they are uncompetitive for BC admission? Keep in mind there are about 15+ highly selective northeast boarding schools, 20 NYC day schools, and 15+ terrific suburban day schools (Brunswick) in the northeast that fit this profile of a median student having a good shot at BC. At many of them Georgetown is a median outcome.

This has absolutely nothing to do with what op asked, and pretty much nothing to do the demo of this board.Perhaps go back and read the description of the school her child attends.

I am confident a median student at her child’s private has a decent shot at BC, especially if applying early.

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