Big 3 (or thereabouts) College Results - Class of 2021

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Do you guys really think the Ivy League schools are fighting over privileged private school kids? I'm in admissions at one and they aren't. We prefer kids from good publics who performed well in school with healthy extracurricular activities. I tell my brother and sister in law repeatedly, that paying for private in hopes it will get them into a good college is really misguided.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone I’ve heard from is basically not getting in where they thought they would due in part to a lot more applicants than expected.

I think it has more to do with test optional. Let’s all those grade inflators (public schools) benefit and those grade deflators (big 3) get hurt. I predict worst college placement for the Cathedral schools as their insistence on not inflating grades like everyone else will hurt their students in a way that they will reconsider their anemic approach to giving an A.

Honestly, at some point, if what you are saying is true about Big 3 kids being disadvantaged is true, it will ruin the business model of these schools, and they will be forced to change. No one is going to pay 45K+ for the chance to lose out to public school kids of grading differences. The education is often really good but not that good.

The education is great. Full stop. But not playing the grade inflation game, when everyone is playing it, hurts college admissions chances. Full stop.

This whining has got to stop. The colleges and universities are all familiar with Washington’s tops schools and understand the grading disparities. This is simply a non issue that folks hold onto to get over the insecurities of their children not receiving offers from the top schools.

I think this is correct. The grading differences are NOT new. I went to a top boarding school in the 90s. Each year, only about 7% kids graduated with an average above 90. People were complaining about the same grading issues too at that time.

Thus is not correct. Colleges and universities are ranked in part by how many of the students accepted have hi GPAs. That does in fact disadvantage applicants with from schools with stricter grading policies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you guys really think the Ivy League schools are fighting over privileged private school kids? I'm in admissions at one and they aren't. We prefer kids from good publics who performed well in school with healthy extracurricular activities. I tell my brother and sister in law repeatedly, that paying for private in hopes it will get them into a good college is really misguided.

I'm the President of an Ivy League school, and this is news to me.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you guys really think the Ivy League schools are fighting over privileged private school kids? I'm in admissions at one and they aren't. We prefer kids from good publics who performed well in school with healthy extracurricular activities. I tell my brother and sister in law repeatedly, that paying for private in hopes it will get them into a good college is really misguided.

I'm the President of an Ivy League school, and this is news to me.

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[Anonymous]

I am President of the other Ivys. Also news to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you guys really think the Ivy League schools are fighting over privileged private school kids? I'm in admissions at one and they aren't. We prefer kids from good publics who performed well in school with healthy extracurricular activities. I tell my brother and sister in law repeatedly, that paying for private in hopes it will get them into a good college is really misguided.

Not all private school kids are "privileged" - some people make a huge financial sacrifice to send their kids to one for a variety of reasons. Maybe you didn't mean privileged private school kids in the negative way that it is coming across to me but it felt like you were making a lot of assumptions about a group of kids.

[Anonymous]

Results have been abysmal from what I have heard from early admits. Very down year. Way down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you guys really think the Ivy League schools are fighting over privileged private school kids? I'm in admissions at one and they aren't. We prefer kids from good publics who performed well in school with healthy extracurricular activities. I tell my brother and sister in law repeatedly, that paying for private in hopes it will get them into a good college is really misguided.

+1 our office tries to get 50/50 public/private

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Results have been abysmal from what I have heard from early admits. Very down year. Way down.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you guys really think the Ivy League schools are fighting over privileged private school kids? I'm in admissions at one and they aren't. We prefer kids from good publics who performed well in school with healthy extracurricular activities. I tell my brother and sister in law repeatedly, that paying for private in hopes it will get them into a good college is really misguided.

If you truly works in admissions of one of ivies, you will be fired shortly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Results have been abysmal from what I have heard from early admits. Very down year. Way down.

There are many MANY more public school kids with straight As than ever before. Without the SAT you have an endless supply of top public applicants.
This doesn't mean that colleges won't take private school kids but they'll almost definitely take less of them--because there are SO many top public school kids to choose from.
Even if they take 10% more, it's a dent into the private school pool.
Plus colleges are taking fewer kids overall because they have fewer spots due to deferrals.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you guys really think the Ivy League schools are fighting over privileged private school kids? I'm in admissions at one and they aren't. We prefer kids from good publics who performed well in school with healthy extracurricular activities. I tell my brother and sister in law repeatedly, that paying for private in hopes it will get them into a good college is really misguided.

+1 our office tries to get 50/50 public/private

how is that a public preference when 80-90% of kids go to public school?

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Anonymous wrote:Results have been abysmal from what I have heard from early admits. Very down year. Way down.

+100

More victims of the pandemic - the Big 3 class of 2021.

[Anonymous]

It's not about public vs private. It's geography. They're not picking the Whitman kid over GDS. They're picking the Idaho public school kid over both.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you guys really think the Ivy League schools are fighting over privileged private school kids? I'm in admissions at one and they aren't. We prefer kids from good publics who performed well in school with healthy extracurricular activities. I tell my brother and sister in law repeatedly, that paying for private in hopes it will get them into a good college is really misguided.

I'm the President of an Ivy League school, and this is news to me.

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Same here! PP: you're fired!