Where do average students go to school?

[Anonymous]

Average students attend average colleges of which there are many.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Average students attend average colleges of which there are many.

That might be true if all kids went to college. But it isn’t. Fewer than half.

[Anonymous]

Cornell

[Anonymous]

Proud mom of "average" kids again here....

Both D20 and S20 applied summer priority to Longwood which offered application fee waivers and did not require official transcripts. They each received calls this week with offers of acceptance. While Longwood is considered a "safety" school for them it's good to know they have one in the bag already. We visited over spring break and it's a good school. Only negative is it is isolated in small sleepy town appropriately named Farmville.

Longwood is also smallish...only around $5K students so even Freshman year classes would be average of 25-30 students. But both my D20 and S20 see the benefits of having smaller class sizes and are in agreement that if Longwood were the only school they were accepted to they would be fine going there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing wrong with "average." I went to University of Delaware.

Great jobs and career after graduation.

As the other poster said....there is a lot to be said
for life skills.

I know a lot of Ivy League graduates working
in retail or as secretaries post graduation or otherwise
doing jobs you could get with a high school degree only.

You're really making Delaware look bad here.

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Anonymous wrote:Michigan, Tulane and George Washington

Michigan has an admit rate of around 16% for OOS and that will be going down for the 2020 cycle, so, no.

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Anonymous wrote:Cornell

Single digit admit rage for unhooked, non-Ag kids.

[Anonymous]

Most non flagship state schools are for "average" students and then they usually have a separate section for their "honors" students.

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Anonymous wrote:Most non flagship state schools are for "average" students and then they usually have a separate section for their "honors" students.

If you are in-state, most flagships only take the top X% (usually around 10%) of graduating high school classes. If you are out of state, it is much more difficult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Proud mom of "average" kids again here....

Both D20 and S20 applied summer priority to Longwood which offered application fee waivers and did not require official transcripts. They each received calls this week with offers of acceptance. While Longwood is considered a "safety" school for them it's good to know they have one in the bag already. We visited over spring break and it's a good school. Only negative is it is isolated in small sleepy town appropriately named Farmville.

Longwood is also smallish...only around $5K students so even Freshman year classes would be average of 25-30 students. But both my D20 and S20 see the benefits of having smaller class sizes and are in agreement that if Longwood were the only school they were accepted to they would be fine going there.

I have a high school senior that has also applied to and been accepted at Longwood. He did something a bit different; Longwood offered several specific dates over the summer where a student could send in their application (including self reported grades and SAT/ACT scores) a few days in advance, then take a tour and be given a decision that same day. While he mostly did it as a "safety," he actually did end up liking the campus and will consider going there if his top pick school (JMU) doesn't work out.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most non flagship state schools are for "average" students and then they usually have a separate section for their "honors" students.

If you are in-state, most flagships only take the top X% (usually around 10%) of graduating high school classes. If you are out of state, it is much more difficult.

Get some glasses...I wrote "non flagship" not flagship

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Anonymous wrote:Anywhere they want if their parents have enough money (see Lori Loughlin and Jared Kushner)

Or Chelsea Clinton.

B.A. degree in history, with highest honors, at Stanford in 2001
MPhil degree in international relations at Oxford in 2003
Ph.D degree in International Relations at NYU in 2014

Very average indeed [sarcasm].

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Anonymous wrote:NOVA and if they do well, transfer to GMU

This.

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Anonymous wrote:Do students in public school even end up with a GPA that low these days? If they are taking honors and AP courses, their GPA should be higher than that if they actually belong in those classes. If they aren’t in those classes, are they really college bound?

You're an a$$

[Anonymous]

I have a high school senior that has also applied to and been accepted at Longwood. He did something a bit different; Longwood offered several specific dates over the summer where a student could send in their application (including self reported grades and SAT/ACT scores) a few days in advance, then take a tour and be given a decision that same day. While he mostly did it as a "safety," he actually did end up liking the campus and will consider going there if his top pick school (JMU) doesn't work out.

Yep...the Longwood Summer Decision Day. As we had already toured the school over Spring Break we didn't do this. Their dorms are great -- they just finished renovating one and I believe all but one resident hall offers suite-style bathroom dorms.

I almost wish Longwood was their top choice just so we could be done