College placements

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Anonymous wrote:This is highly college-dependent - Cornell e.g. will happily admit 30 kids from the same class, Harvard is normally very very tight-fisted though you do occasionally see them randomly admit 6 or 8 one year.

Wish there were a way to find out how the unconnected/financial aid kids are doing at schools like Brearley. Very hard from the outside to infer that from the posted stats.

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Unconnected kids at Brearley usually year dependent if we are talking about Harvard,Yale, Princeton. Two years ago more unconnected kids were admitted but last and this year many legacies, at least two board kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Unconnected kids at Brearley usually year dependent if we are talking about Harvard,Yale, Princeton. Two years ago more unconnected kids were admitted but last and this year many legacies, at least two board kids.

Sorry, what does that mean? Two kids with parents on university boards? How many is "many" legacies -- and aren't universities de-emphasizing that in the recent years?

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Anonymous wrote:This is highly college-dependent - Cornell e.g. will happily admit 30 kids from the same class, Harvard is normally very very tight-fisted though you do occasionally see them randomly admit 6 or 8 one year.

Wish there were a way to find out how the unconnected/financial aid kids are doing at schools like Brearley. Very hard from the outside to infer that from the posted stats.

Prep for Prep FA kids do better than unconnected kids. But they’re normally academic powerhouses too.

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Anonymous wrote:This is highly college-dependent - Cornell e.g. will happily admit 30 kids from the same class, Harvard is normally very very tight-fisted though you do occasionally see them randomly admit 6 or 8 one year.

Wish there were a way to find out how the unconnected/financial aid kids are doing at schools like Brearley. Very hard from the outside to infer that from the posted stats.

Prep for Prep FA kids do better than unconnected kids. But they’re normally academic powerhouses too.

What about the non-Prep-for-Prep unconnected FA kids who are also academic powerhouses?

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Anonymous wrote:This is highly college-dependent - Cornell e.g. will happily admit 30 kids from the same class, Harvard is normally very very tight-fisted though you do occasionally see them randomly admit 6 or 8 one year.

Wish there were a way to find out how the unconnected/financial aid kids are doing at schools like Brearley. Very hard from the outside to infer that from the posted stats.

Prep for Prep FA kids do better than unconnected kids. But they’re normally academic powerhouses too.

What about the non-Prep-for-Prep unconnected FA kids who are also academic powerhouses?

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Anonymous wrote:I see other schools posting on instagram this year except Brearley.

Neither has Dalton. Both schools post in the spring if you look at last year’s accounts.

HM doesn’t even allow these accounts. HM’s college placements have gone down the drain - I remember they used to do crazy well and their placements at ivies basically tanked which caused an uproar.

A few years ago they sent a ridiculous number of kids to Chicago. Which is a very good school. But it just seemed odd. If you thought you were getting Ivy and you got Chicago you probably aren't thrilled. If it is second tier kids getting Chicago then it is much more OK.

HM has an account - it just doesn’t have any references to the school. 11/62 posted so far are going to Chicago. I think that’s great, but I’m not Ivy or bust.

Chicago is a great school but not sure if I would want to be going to college with that many HS classmates - it is not that big of a place. It is a bit odd how many kids they are sending there. Obviously, it's not like they are sending all these kids to an awful school, but just odd. Obviously if this was Harvard or Yale I would feel slightly differently.

What is the account?

https://www.instagram.com/maroonlions26/

^^^and FWIW, it's student run and not complete. I know it's missing a Princeton, a Yale, and another Williams admit at the least.

Looks like a bit less than half of the graduating class posted, and we could probably assume that the other half is not materially stronger. So -- am I reading this wrong, or does this look meaningfully weaker than average for e.g. Brearley/Spence for the very top colleges? One Stanford, no HYP listed, no MIT?

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Anonymous wrote:I see other schools posting on instagram this year except Brearley.

Neither has Dalton. Both schools post in the spring if you look at last year’s accounts.

HM doesn’t even allow these accounts. HM’s college placements have gone down the drain - I remember they used to do crazy well and their placements at ivies basically tanked which caused an uproar.

A few years ago they sent a ridiculous number of kids to Chicago. Which is a very good school. But it just seemed odd. If you thought you were getting Ivy and you got Chicago you probably aren't thrilled. If it is second tier kids getting Chicago then it is much more OK.

HM has an account - it just doesn’t have any references to the school. 11/62 posted so far are going to Chicago. I think that’s great, but I’m not Ivy or bust.

Chicago is a great school but not sure if I would want to be going to college with that many HS classmates - it is not that big of a place. It is a bit odd how many kids they are sending there. Obviously, it's not like they are sending all these kids to an awful school, but just odd. Obviously if this was Harvard or Yale I would feel slightly differently.

What is the account?

https://www.instagram.com/maroonlions26/

^^^and FWIW, it's student run and not complete. I know it's missing a Princeton, a Yale, and another Williams admit at the least.

Looks like a bit less than half of the graduating class posted, and we could probably assume that the other half is not materially stronger. So -- am I reading this wrong, or does this look meaningfully weaker than average for e.g. Brearley/Spence for the very top colleges? One Stanford, no HYP listed, no MIT?

I don't think there is reason to assume that the other half is or isn't stronger. They either just haven't posted or gotten results yet (it's on Feb). Ivy Day isn't for another month.

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Anonymous wrote:I see other schools posting on instagram this year except Brearley.

Neither has Dalton. Both schools post in the spring if you look at last year’s accounts.

HM doesn’t even allow these accounts. HM’s college placements have gone down the drain - I remember they used to do crazy well and their placements at ivies basically tanked which caused an uproar.

A few years ago they sent a ridiculous number of kids to Chicago. Which is a very good school. But it just seemed odd. If you thought you were getting Ivy and you got Chicago you probably aren't thrilled. If it is second tier kids getting Chicago then it is much more OK.

HM has an account - it just doesn’t have any references to the school. 11/62 posted so far are going to Chicago. I think that’s great, but I’m not Ivy or bust.

Chicago is a great school but not sure if I would want to be going to college with that many HS classmates - it is not that big of a place. It is a bit odd how many kids they are sending there. Obviously, it's not like they are sending all these kids to an awful school, but just odd. Obviously if this was Harvard or Yale I would feel slightly differently.

What is the account?

https://www.instagram.com/maroonlions26/

^^^and FWIW, it's student run and not complete. I know it's missing a Princeton, a Yale, and another Williams admit at the least.

Looks like a bit less than half of the graduating class posted, and we could probably assume that the other half is not materially stronger. So -- am I reading this wrong, or does this look meaningfully weaker than average for e.g. Brearley/Spence for the very top colleges? One Stanford, no HYP listed, no MIT?

I don't think there is reason to assume that the other half is or isn't stronger. They either just haven't posted or gotten results yet (it's on Feb). Ivy Day isn't for another month.

Oh I see. I was just assuming self-selection + ED giving the strongest matriculations?

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Anonymous wrote:I see other schools posting on instagram this year except Brearley.

Neither has Dalton. Both schools post in the spring if you look at last year’s accounts.

HM doesn’t even allow these accounts. HM’s college placements have gone down the drain - I remember they used to do crazy well and their placements at ivies basically tanked which caused an uproar.

A few years ago they sent a ridiculous number of kids to Chicago. Which is a very good school. But it just seemed odd. If you thought you were getting Ivy and you got Chicago you probably aren't thrilled. If it is second tier kids getting Chicago then it is much more OK.

HM has an account - it just doesn’t have any references to the school. 11/62 posted so far are going to Chicago. I think that’s great, but I’m not Ivy or bust.

Chicago is a great school but not sure if I would want to be going to college with that many HS classmates - it is not that big of a place. It is a bit odd how many kids they are sending there. Obviously, it's not like they are sending all these kids to an awful school, but just odd. Obviously if this was Harvard or Yale I would feel slightly differently.

What is the account?

https://www.instagram.com/maroonlions26/

^^^and FWIW, it's student run and not complete. I know it's missing a Princeton, a Yale, and another Williams admit at the least.

Looks like a bit less than half of the graduating class posted, and we could probably assume that the other half is not materially stronger. So -- am I reading this wrong, or does this look meaningfully weaker than average for e.g. Brearley/Spence for the very top colleges? One Stanford, no HYP listed, no MIT?

I always just take into account every school doesn’t have 100% posting rate and still compare schools this way. If you look at these accounts historically, December postings are typically stronger than postings in the spring.

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Anonymous wrote:I see other schools posting on instagram this year except Brearley.

Neither has Dalton. Both schools post in the spring if you look at last year’s accounts.

HM doesn’t even allow these accounts. HM’s college placements have gone down the drain - I remember they used to do crazy well and their placements at ivies basically tanked which caused an uproar.

A few years ago they sent a ridiculous number of kids to Chicago. Which is a very good school. But it just seemed odd. If you thought you were getting Ivy and you got Chicago you probably aren't thrilled. If it is second tier kids getting Chicago then it is much more OK.

HM has an account - it just doesn’t have any references to the school. 11/62 posted so far are going to Chicago. I think that’s great, but I’m not Ivy or bust.

Chicago is a great school but not sure if I would want to be going to college with that many HS classmates - it is not that big of a place. It is a bit odd how many kids they are sending there. Obviously, it's not like they are sending all these kids to an awful school, but just odd. Obviously if this was Harvard or Yale I would feel slightly differently.

What is the account?

https://www.instagram.com/maroonlions26/

^^^and FWIW, it's student run and not complete. I know it's missing a Princeton, a Yale, and another Williams admit at the least.

Looks like a bit less than half of the graduating class posted, and we could probably assume that the other half is not materially stronger. So -- am I reading this wrong, or does this look meaningfully weaker than average for e.g. Brearley/Spence for the very top colleges? One Stanford, no HYP listed, no MIT?

look on the school profile for accurate reporting

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Anonymous wrote:look on the school profile for accurate reporting

That's frequently obscured; either they just give you a list of colleges without counts like Trinity or they give you a list of colleges within the last 5 years with symbols for 5+ or 10+ students like Fieldston.

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Actually I stand corrected, Fieldston updated their page with an actual list now. Trinity's just a map with dots and no numbers next to the dots.

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Anonymous wrote:Hunter matriculations from last year look pretty good, 8 to Harvard, 4 to Princeton, lots of other great schools. It's only slightly larger than HM and I am assuming far fewer legacies.
https://www.instagram.com/hawkscommit25/

I wonder if most of these kids with these kinds of exmissions are the ones that enter at 7th grade

My kid is in that insta . And no, with one or two exceptions, the kids who enter at K are unimpressive.

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Does Brearley have an Insta this year?

Also doesn't look like Dalton or Packer are posting.