3.8 uw private school gpa/odds
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it is not the GPA itself, it is the relative rank.
3.8uw at private schools can be top 25% or around average or even below at grade inflated privates. If it is top25% then those kids get into T25s in RD. Places where 3.8uw is average (ie some "known" private Day schools in DelMarVA) do not get into T25s unless they have a hook or get lucky in ED. |
Anonymous
| Will be interesting to see how Ivy day goes for the RD crowd. |
Anonymous
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Thought this was interesting. Results from a New York City private school last year? Anyone know which school this is?
Clearly 3.8 here would appear to be doing just fine https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/s/6NODO2IldZ |
Anonymous
"Trinity, Collegiate, Horace Mann and the like, on the other hand, are feeder schools because a large part of their success with college admissions comes from their name recognition and connections. Although their student bodies are undoubtedly successful too, the average Stuy kid is undeniably smarter than the average top NYC private kid, but the average top NYC Private kid will probably go to a similar tier if not better college. Think of it this way. 37% of Trinity matriculated into the Ivy League alone. Adding in the rest of the T20 and the T5 LACs and you could be looking at 60-70% of the class. Now if you dumped those kids in a public school, would 60-70% of that crop be going to those schools? Absolutely not. " - from another reddit post This here is the benefit of "certain" elite private schools. Will see if it holds this year in other regions. |
Anonymous
| Lots of great options for this kid. |
Anonymous
| We are at a NYC private and these stats can be very misleading. Yes the kids are very bright and work hard, but nearly all of the kids getting into Ivy+ schools are legacy, famous parents (think Seinfeld, SJP) or URMs. My 3.9 uw 1510 legacy DC got into my Ivy in 2022 but I can tell you the ONLY kids who got into Ivy+ that year were legacies and URMs. That’s it. |
Anonymous
which high school? |
Anonymous
I think this is a private in NE not necessarily NYC. Here are the results at Dalton and Spence from last year. https://www.instagram.com/daltonseniors23/ (Class size around 120) https://www.instagram.com/spence23niors/ Class size 60 |
Anonymous
I think its Trinity. |
Anonymous
The reason I don't think it's Trinity is because the class size is 125 (not 95 as mentioned in the post) and Trinity has more kids going to Harvard than in the list. |
Anonymous
The major selection is fascinating. Definitely different than big public (selective schools)....and its clearly also an edge (along with everything else). |
Anonymous
k I think it’s a lot easier to stand out as a philosophy, linguistics, English literature, anthropology, gender studies, Middle East studies major than it is something more practical and conventional…. |
Anonymous
How important is major, though, really? Isn’t it really a small thing in the entire application profile? Or is your point that it’s much easier to manufacture a “competitive application” for these types of majors and be successful? |
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You see very few “specialized” industry majors for college decisions from truly elite high schools. Computer science may make sense at MIT, but other than that you’re not seeing it all that much. Same for anything labeled “business“.
Why? Because those types of majors are for the “worker” bees. The CEOs generally don’t major in those types of things. Same for the investment bankers or PE folks (maybe finance)…. They major in philosophy & economics at Yale or anthropology at Dartmouth. Same for Amherst or Williams. That’s been my experience as a 49 yo in finance. |
Anonymous
Trinity has MUCH better numbers. All what UB (rip) would call “TT” has better numbers. So this is a tier 2 hs in nyc. Which is crazier |