Safeties/ matches please....

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A few thoughts from another private school parent-

If your school is pushing slacs, your kid is not as strong an applicant as you think in the current admissions environment. Private schools still have very strong feeder relationships with slacs so they are promoting these schools because that’s where they think she has the best chance of admittance. Given this, you are likely aiming too high with the bigger universities. Probably should be looking at schools like Tulane, BU, NE, Wisco, maybe Miami. These schools all strongly prefer applicants who ED.

You don’t mention test scores. Unhooked private school students often can get away with being test optional at slacs. The T25 universities for the most part are going to want to see test scores from this demographic.

What is the extracurricular that you think sets her apart?

OP Here
PP I think you are right about why College office is pushing SLAC's. But they are pushing HARD SLAc's with low admit rates- Williams, Swarthmore, Middlebury which seems weird, but as you say, maybe they care less about scores

DC may go test optional despite SUPER high GPA. Her SAT is just OK 1480-1500 ish. Wonder about if we should submit or not- I know at high reaches those scores are low.
I can't name extra curricular bc it's identifying, but it may help at some schools and it's unusual so it's sort of a wild card that might make a difference at the tippy top places.

I agree ED one at the Emory/Tufts/Georgetown level has been a successful strategy for high stats big 3 kids. ED 1 for unhooked kids at Ivies/Duke/Stanford is throwing away the ED advantage- do folks agree?

They're pushing those SLACs because, as the PP said, your high school has a very strong relationship with those SLACs. My unhooked, high stat Big 3 kid was told the same a couple of years and is now at one of those SLACs (and is very happy).

If that's not what your kid wants, then run the ED to Emory/Tufts (or Wash U or Tulane or BC or Vandy - these were all midsize, urban schools that were suggested to my kid) idea by the counselor

Vandy is a much more difficult than any of these other schools with a 17 percent ED and 5.6 percent RD acceptance rate this cycle.

[Anonymous]

SMU would be a safety and potential for merit if there was real demonstrated interest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A few thoughts from another private school parent-

If your school is pushing slacs, your kid is not as strong an applicant as you think in the current admissions environment. Private schools still have very strong feeder relationships with slacs so they are promoting these schools because that’s where they think she has the best chance of admittance. Given this, you are likely aiming too high with the bigger universities. Probably should be looking at schools like Tulane, BU, NE, Wisco, maybe Miami. These schools all strongly prefer applicants who ED.

You don’t mention test scores. Unhooked private school students often can get away with being test optional at slacs. The T25 universities for the most part are going to want to see test scores from this demographic.

What is the extracurricular that you think sets her apart?

OP Here
PP I think you are right about why College office is pushing SLAC's. But they are pushing HARD SLAc's with low admit rates- Williams, Swarthmore, Middlebury which seems weird, but as you say, maybe they care less about scores

DC may go test optional despite SUPER high GPA. Her SAT is just OK 1480-1500 ish. Wonder about if we should submit or not- I know at high reaches those scores are low.
I can't name extra curricular bc it's identifying, but it may help at some schools and it's unusual so it's sort of a wild card that might make a difference at the tippy top places.

I agree ED one at the Emory/Tufts/Georgetown level has been a successful strategy for high stats big 3 kids. ED 1 for unhooked kids at Ivies/Duke/Stanford is throwing away the ED advantage- do folks agree?

They're pushing those SLACs because, as the PP said, your high school has a very strong relationship with those SLACs. My unhooked, high stat Big 3 kid was told the same a couple of years and is now at one of those SLACs (and is very happy).

If that's not what your kid wants, then run the ED to Emory/Tufts (or Wash U or Tulane or BC or Vandy - these were all midsize, urban schools that were suggested to my kid) idea by the counselor

Vandy is a much more difficult than any of these other schools with a 17 percent ED and 5.6 percent RD acceptance rate this cycle.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:University of Toronto is currently the top Canadian university. I don't think you can call it a target. I don't care who you think your kid is.

OK I agree with others that this may be rude, but I can see where the misunderstanding lies. Unlike many Stateside schools (looking at you, Colby, NEU) Canadian universities do not encourage (and some do not even accept) applications from students who are not capable of succeeding at the university. A school with a 43% acceptance rate may look like a "safety" by U.S., standards, but the applicants will ALL be highly qualified. Canadians might understandably be annoyed by the implication that their premier university, ranked in the world's top 20 universities, would be considered an easy admit by some Americans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For our son at a private in DC
Those were his safeties recommended by counselor at school
University of Maryland
William and Mary
Indiana
Penn state
U mass in Amherst

If your son is at a private in DC then you're either from Nova or OOS. In either case, I'm having trouble seeing how W&M is a safety.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For our son at a private in DC
Those were his safeties recommended by counselor at school
University of Maryland
William and Mary
Indiana
Penn state
U mass in Amherst

If your son is at a private in DC then you're either from Nova or OOS. In either case, I'm having trouble seeing how W&M is a safety.

OP's kid is a girl. Bio / Psych gave that away.