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Only if your kid got into an Ivy in last 5 yrs. - how'd you do it?
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Anonymous
| I don't want to hear from anyone who went to an Ivy...it was easier to get into back then. I don't want to hear from snarks or people who say there is an Ivy obsession. So now that we've gotten those parameters out of the way -- if and only if your kid got into an Ivy in the last 5 years -- how'd they did they distinguish themselves as candidates? |
Anonymous
| Oh yuck, yuck. yuck. Its not the absurd obsession that gets to me but the idea that you can "do" this. What you can "do" is inflict a lot of pressure on your child, and cause real damage. Good luck with that. |
Anonymous
| I didn't ask for your opinion. I told snarks to stay away ...go over to the public school forum. |
Anonymous
| You sound awful! |
Anonymous
| And you sound like a preachy prissy. |
Anonymous
| Um, you are making the assumption that only private school kids go to Ivy League schools. You may think this is a more rarified section but you attitude is a serious turnoff. |
Anonymous
| Okay, not me but my sis. Her son got into Wharton and is now a freshman. How did he do it? Hard to say. He was valedictorian of his HS of 400 kids (but probably only 150 went on to college and word was he was first in the school's history to go to an ivy league school). Good SATs but not outragious (like 2100?). Outragious number of extracurricular activities, sports, honors. But maybe because mom and dad went to Penn? Who knows? |
Anonymous
| daughter recruited for crew at brown. she is a beast and it consumed her summers and 2 seasons at school. interesting kid also played ice hockey. decent grades (B+ student at a private in boston similar to NCS) great SATs. we are now in dc and my co workers son got in from bethesda public, i think whitman, also for sports but to harvard. neice got into princeton from boarding school and was completely type a and had perfect grades and i think she got in for academics but happened to also play squash while there. translation...be a good student at a great school and be insanely good at a unique sport. |
Anonymous
| What is a good unique sport these days? My son plays baseball which is clearly NOT unique. He also wrestles (is that unique?). Should he do LAX or is that passe? Fencing? |
Anonymous
Harh. Are you aware that a top student at Wilson may have a better shot at an Ivy than an average student at StA? |
Anonymous
| Oh good Lord, you are picking your son's sport (as if he can't pick a sport for himself) based on what will get him into college? Thats a recipe for real love of the game. |
Anonymous
I thought the same thing. |
Anonymous
| A very good female rower can get into a Ivy. A cousin was recruited hard by Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford (and Cal and others). She is uniquely good at this sport, so I do not know how common this is. But rowing is a significant female scholarship sport (there are no scholarships for males). She works hard all around and has good grades, SATs, etc., but it was because of the rowing that she was recruited as she was. |
Anonymous
| Fencing. Seriously. |
Anonymous
| If you are for real, I pity you. More to the point, I pity your kid(s). |