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Anonymous wrote:Grinnell
Will there be anything left after their ED and soft EA?
There is no agreement even on scores..
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You might want to submit if your score is slightly below the 25th percentile mark and you’re an institutional priority. Say you’re a first gen kid from a Title I high school. Average SAT at your high school is 1060. Your score is 1450. 25th percentile mark is 1480. In those circumstances you should probably submit.
This is good advice.
What if you are from a very well regarded high school and not URM or hooked? Does it still make sense to submit at or above 25th percentile? Does it make any sense to submit if NEAR 25th percentile?
For test “preferred” schools I would submit. Look at the wording on the college’s website. If more than 40% of enrolled students were admitted TO, I wouldn’t submit for a kid with your child’s profile.
How to identify one?
We are done with almost all our apps.
Have 5 slots left on CommanApp.
What are some good SLACs that we can target that have deadline around 15th Jan?
What are you filling for 15th?
Have 5 slots left on CommanApp.
What are some good SLACs that we can target that have deadline around 15th Jan?
What are you filling for 15th?
It doesn't matter, SAT scores are just optics
What is Brandeis doing in this discussion?
Didn't they notify EA last month itself?
TBH.. every IVY has defined their minimum grades and scores.. and a matrix of the two to reject..
Majority of the colleges are using TO to protect their yield
Anonymous wrote:small amount
medium amount
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You mean:
Bucknell - 96% submitted test scores. Very interesting
Submitted 3. Have done 9 so far.
Now getting ready for next deadline of 15th. Will do another 4
Wondering what more to consider for my DC who is 3.8 uw, 1550 SAT, okay ECs nothing spikey, and interest in CS.. Any safety suggestion?
Now getting ready for next deadline of 15th. Will do another 4
Wondering what more to consider for my DC who is 3.8 uw, 1550 SAT, okay ECs nothing spikey, and interest in CS.. Any safety suggestion?
Anonymous wrote:Yes, OP is correct. The way schools use test optional now, there is no difference between a 1200 and a 1500 (both are advised to apply test optional), but all the difference in the world between a 1500 and a 1520. Which puts kids scoring at the upper end of the test optional range under enormous pressure to get their objectively very good scores up to the reportable level.
Very true, in the recent Dartmouth ED round.. two identical profiles from same school, they accepted one with 1560 and rejected the 1540. Even though, 1540 was a shade better in ECs.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am stymied by the Midd reject. Perhaps review essays? Did kid submit arts portfolios? Tufts seems like a lovely liberal arts atmosphere. Mine considered it, but I don't think they would have offered enough financial aid for us. If yours likes Tufts enough, maybe look over the writing, make sure you have good arts portfolio content and ask counselor to check the recs. Good luck!
I think many on this board have a dated impression of Middlebury as a school a decent student can get into. All I can tell you is that from our HS in Naviance it is a sea of red x’s. The admits are rare and super strong students.
The ED acceptance rate at Middlebury is 42 percent, which is high for a selective school. It is near impossible to get into RD.
Not nearly impossible, its still 11% acceptance for RD.
OP should have gone TO with Midd, their 50th percentile is at 1466. 1470 might be a bit iffy.
Worst part about Midd is that they don't have any supplemental or Midd specific essay.
Consider Colgate for ED2
Anonymous wrote:Neo wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I really don’t understand the Colby thing. I know three kids there now who didn’t get into schools with higher acceptance rates (Middlebury, BC and Brown). But maybe the key is that the kids I know are all full pay?
Colby is need-aware, has no application fee, and no supplemental essay, so lots of kids just tick that box off to apply using the common app.
It’s also one of the few colleges that doesn’t make public its common data set.
They’re playing games—but acceptance rate has a much lower weight in USNews than it used to, so they’re where they belong in the ranking.
But yet Colby’s yield rate is quite high….
Yet, Colby keeps spamming mail box with emails having subject title: "No fees to apply. No supplements to submit. No extra essays to write." TBH, its very tempting for anyone to tick and apply.
Who is getting those emails?
Those whom Colby wants to “recruit to reject” or “recruit to deny”