What's behind the surge in applications to some schools?
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Anonymous
This is exactly the vicious cycle someone posted about earlier. |
Anonymous
LORs in Common App cannot be edited once submitted. It's not that hard to tweak supplements to apply to more schools. Most supplemental essays are regurgitating the same stuff. Why Major, Why Us. Diversity/Community. EC. My kid applied to 15 schools between Jan 1 and Jan 15. The first essays are the hardest ones to write, in his case that was for the UCs back on Dec 2 and then the Jan 1 schools that started with pieces of those essays. Once the ball gets rolling, the genre gets familiar, and whole paragraphs can be copied, it's not that hard. The different essay lengths force each one to be slightly unique but the basic facts stay the same. |
Anonymous
Private day school in nyc. My kid doing 11 was on the high end because there were 5 UCAS schools (one app) in there. The HS limits US apps to 10 and average kid submits 6. There's some T5 legacy, but sub 10% of the kids. It's also a school that if you get in SCEA, you can apply to one or two more but that's it. Most don't submit any more if they get in SCEA. There is an awareness about the pool. I don't think people appreciate how worse your odds get if you're submitting 15+ and so are your classmates. You may not even be the best app to Rice or BU coming from your HS. I also don't think people appreciate how good a good application moves the needle. Parents think if John and Jim are both applying to Vandy and everyone knows John is the "better" applicant, it's an easy call. But the essays, how they narrow-focus the activities list, the LOR, how they tell their story and interest related to what Vandy specifically offers ..that's what matters. Not the 3.96 vs 3.90. |
Anonymous
What I mean here is that once a teacher uploads to Common App and the student submits to a school, that teacher LOR cannot be changed. The teacher cannot upload a new LOR for the student for some other college. This is a very important clarification to emphasize if there are any teachers reading here: you cannot make LORs school-specific for submissions through Common App. |
Anonymous
this isn't true. you have to withdraw and resubmit, but it's fine. you can also edit common app essay, activities list, additional info .. all of it. my kid did that for every school. |
Anonymous
Retention NEU 97% UT 96% Graduation NEU 90% UT 84% 4-year-out salary outcome NEU 93K UT $75K Acceptance rate, yield rate, median SAT, ect., NEU beats UT in every metrics. Wake the F up to 2025 granny, it's not 1986. |
Anonymous
This sounds heavenly. Clearly it can only happen in a private school but I wish more privates would do this. DC ended up submitting 20 reaches because most kids did. I wish the school would lay down a limit. |
Anonymous
Mine did this. Based on what each T20 wants (looked at mission statement and AO scoring rubric; listened to AO podcasts and webinars; reviewed strategic plan and new areas of university focus or investment). Even tweaked primary/secondary major choice and career goals for EVERY application. Exhausting process. It is not rinse and repeat if you are submitting selective RD apps - highly customized to what schools value. |
Anonymous
Stop bringing facts into an argument, older folks have problems with numbers. |
Anonymous
But since NEU is the poster child for worshipping at the feet of USNWR, it seems fair to evaluate that school in particular on that metric. |
Anonymous
Texas is a state school and not full of rich kids paying 100k so of course this is going to affect raw numbers. Do you seriously just sit around and look for any post on here with northeastern in it? Hopefully the school is at least paying you for this. |
Anonymous
So just pulling random stuff out of your @$$ is better? Why did you say UT is better? |
Anonymous
This isn't true, and shows that most of you don't know what you're talking about. RD is difficult due to thr shear size of the applicant pool, not the quality. The applicant pool with the highest quality outsode of scholarship students is ED. Schools that have 2 rounds of ED usually say ED1 has the highest quality and wealthiest students applying and ED2 is the weakest, with RD somewhere in between. I'm getting my info directly from Emory admissions. |
Anonymous
+2 Also, at our private school you can have multiple letters of recommendation (from different teachers) available and ask the CCO pick which one(s) to submit to which school. CCO will read the recommendation and decide, even though kids can’t read them. This works well if you are crafting a different narrative for different schools (classics major for one, English major for another, etc.). |
Anonymous
The demographic at UT includes a lot of FGLI kids that get in through the 6% rule from low income high schools and they tend to drop out at higher rates. There was a 60 minutes episode about the difficulties these FGLI face when they enroll at UT. I don’t think the numbers reflect that NEU is a better quality school. |