This should tell you how elite college admissions really are
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Most veterans to this forum know this already, but I thought, I would share the results of this year's admission at my kids school.
School is a well rated (but not top) public school in a suburb of Texas. I would say in the top 25% of all high schools in Texas. around 70% white. About 5% Asian. Class strength around 550 Offers a lot of AP classes. Total NMSF: around 20 Total AP scholars around 100, AP scholars with distinction: around 70, National AP scholars: around 15 School ranks students as per Texas state requirements This year here is the haul from Private Universities: Students who applied to the top 25 private universities were usually in the top10% of class. Around 60 students or so applied to top 25 private universities 3 students made it to one of top 10 schools. 1 to top 10 LAC. (1 half Asian-half white, 2 Asian, 1 Hispanic) Everybody else pretty much got denied or waitlisted Most of the gifted kids are going to UT Austin. All top 5 kids got rejected from Harvard and Stanford. All four who got in were in the top 10 ranks of this school. If your school is anywhere close to this profile, I suspect this may be how things may be shaking out at your school too. Just we aware and plan accordingly. Don't be overly optimistic. |
Anonymous
| No one is owed Harvard. Do you understand that you are competing globally for 2000 or so spots? Tell me when you looked at the acceptance rate did you think of another outcome ? I’m trying to understand why you are so surprisEd. |
Anonymous
so in other words, elite means.... wait for it.... elite. |
Anonymous
DP. Your post indicates you only read or digested part of the original post. Also, I didn't get that OP meant Harvard owes more than zero admission offers to the high school in question. Don't act smarter than you actually are. |
Anonymous
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Always good to be reminded of this, OP, but you should have posted in Tweens and Teens, because families start dreaming EARLY 
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Anonymous
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I follow the Facebook feed for my high school. According to US News and World Report, it's nationally ranked in about the top 15 % of high schools in the country. They've been taking photos of the kids for college decision day holding a sign of the school they're attending.
The majority are going to community college. There's a few heading to the state flagship, a few heading to regional state schools, and two or or three heading to top 20 universities. This is America. This is normal. People in this area have such a skewed idea of what is normal in the college arms race. |
Anonymous
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I stopped reading after the OP mentioned the race and ethnicity of the students going to top 10 colleges.
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Anonymous
Why? It's interesting. |
Anonymous
DP. Sharing of a pragmatic view of this years college admissions experience at a good school (dominated by the dominant race) with many excellent students as evidenced by the number of APs taken and the number of National Merit Semifinalists. The take away is not to be too dreamy eyed and shoot in the foot, especially if you are a parent/student of middle school or high school. If you don't have kids or you are a know-it-all, then of course the original post is "ramble". The day is long. Save some attitude for the rest of the day. |
Anonymous
No it isn’t. It is creepy and borderline racist. “Half Asian?” This OP has spent easy to much time dissecting the stats and outcomes of 500 kids. |
Anonymous
I know. Eye opening! Isn't it. |
Anonymous
Anyone who follows this board or the news or talks to a college counselor or looks at the CDSs or reads the accepted class profiles colleges publish already knows this stuff. That’s why people are calling it ramble. OP isn’t adding anything new except their own shock that high stat kids who take a lot of APs are not that interesting to elite colleges. |
Anonymous
What do you call the race of a person who has an Asian Parent and a White Parent? |
Anonymous
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Yep. 1/3rd of Harvard's entering class in any given year is legacy.
Andover and Exeter (elite NE boarding schools) each contribute about 1% of Harvard's freshman class each year. That number is, of course, lower than the number of kids from those schools that get into Harvard and take a spot from a kid from another school. |
Anonymous
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TL;DR: At an average high school in Texas, no one got into HYPS. Also, some vaguely racist stuff about kids who were offered admission to top 10 schools.
Shouldn't you be posting on BFHM, OP? |