Got in here; rejected there

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS

In at U Michigan and UNC, Rejected at UVA and waitlisted at William & Mary

Ridiculous. Good for you getting into better schools. Virginia schools are so frustrating.

You clearly don't know how well Virginia schools are doing and how difficult it is to get in. UVA is the no 1 public for producer of Rhodes Scholars. No. 8 in the entire nation in fact. You need a 4.45 GPA/35 ACT and a 1510 to be in the 75th percentile of last year's entering students. And only 4,000 are accepted.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In at Occidental and UCLA; rejected at Scripps and Berkeley. We’re California residents.

Which did your child choose? These are all on our list!

Berkeley and UCLA and heads and leaps above Oxy and Scripps

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid got only got accepted to hard reach schools and safety schools.

Got accepted to zero match schools for no obvious specific reason and had a lot of Bs on his report card

Because he or she is an URM. Context very important here

or First generation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amazingly, different colleges have different needs. Just because you get into one school doesn’t mean you meet the needs of another, despite them possibly having a higher aceeptance rate.

Amazingly, with the good grades and relative ease of getting high test scores, the process is growing essentially arbitrary.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In at Stanford and Dartmouth. Rejected at UMD

WHAT! Are you kidding me?

Please tell me more about your child. If you don't mind I would like to know your child's stats, AP course quantity, major, ethnicity, gender, etc.

By the way, I am a minority parent with an URM child. My child is a rising junior, but UMD and Stanford are on his list of schools.

I was messing around sorry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In at Stanford and Dartmouth. Rejected at UMD

WHAT! Are you kidding me?

Please tell me more about your child. If you don't mind I would like to know your child's stats, AP course quantity, major, ethnicity, gender, etc.

By the way, I am a minority parent with an URM child. My child is a rising junior, but UMD and Stanford are on his list of schools.

I was messing around sorry

Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS

In at U Michigan and UNC, Rejected at UVA and waitlisted at William & Mary

Ridiculous. Good for you getting into better schools. Virginia schools are so frustrating.

You clearly don't know how well Virginia schools are doing and how difficult it is to get in. UVA is the no 1 public for producer of Rhodes Scholars. No. 8 in the entire nation in fact. You need a 4.45 GPA/35 ACT and a 1510 to be in the 75th percentile of last year's entering students. And only 4,000 are accepted.

It’s good to know that UVA is tops in one area. Now if only any of their their STEM offerings were in the top 25….

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In at Georgetown and Brown, rejected at UNC

UNC hates non-legacy Virginia students unless they’re coming from privates, TJHSST, Maggie Walker, Oakton, Langley, McLean or Mad.
They figure (often correctly) that top Virginia students will attend UVA.

You are right! My DD graduated from Oakton HS and got into UNC.

[Anonymous]

DD applied to engineering schools- rejected at Michigan & NYU and accepted at Berkeley & Cornell. Went to Berkeley.

[Anonymous]

Rejected- Tulane , Yale, Stanford

Waitlist- NYU , Upenn

Accepted: Georgia Tech, UGA Honors, Umich, USC (half tuition merit), Emory, UCLA

Attending: Emory!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amazingly, different colleges have different needs. Just because you get into one school doesn’t mean you meet the needs of another, despite them possibly having a higher aceeptance rate.

Amazingly, with the good grades and relative ease of getting high test scores, the process is growing essentially arbitrary.

Because, again - many students have equally high stats (or better) than your kid PLUS something else that interests the adcoms. It’s not just about grades and scores anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Into Pomona; rejected
At Conn and Trinity

Stats for you Pomona kid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In at Occidental and UCLA; rejected at Scripps and Berkeley. We’re California residents.

Which did your child choose? These are all on our list!

Berkeley and UCLA and heads and leaps above Oxy and Scripps

And Scripps and Oxy are TOTALLY different kinds of schools than the huge state schools that are Cal and UCLA. So this question wasn’t for your opinion on rankings (which I already know, thanks) but where the PPs child landed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Into Pomona; rejected
At Conn and Trinity

Stats for you Pomona kid?

My Pomona applicant was rejected with a 36 on the ACT, so I wouldn't rely on scores too much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Into Pomona; rejected
At Conn and Trinity

Stats for you Pomona kid?

My Pomona applicant was rejected with a 36 on the ACT, so I wouldn't rely on scores too much.

Bummer - hopefully other great options?!

ED? Gpa? Public or private? Just curious (I know it’s a crap shoot)