Reply to If you kid got into their reach school what do think helped?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "If you kid got into their reach school what do think helped? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD at top 3 SLAC. Perfect grades, high test scores, one outstanding recommendation ("best student I ever had..."), interesting ECs, ED2, full pay, not from the DC area.[/quote]

Again that was not a reach situation [/quote]

The top 3 LACs (and a bit beyond beyond) are a reach for everyone and reject plenty of kids with stats like that.  They are also need blind so full pay has no effect.[/quote]

It's the OP that references full pay as a "help."

The enrollment managers and admin staff know who is full pay. Don't be naive.[/quote]

You're a conspiracy theorist?  Can you provide some evidence for your entirely unsubstantiated claim?

The FACT is that need blind colleges are ABSOLUTELY NEED BLIND IN ADMISSIONS, and they can be because the vast majority of top applicants are affluent.  The don't consider FA and they don't have to.  So being full pay is absolutely no benefit over the other candidates.

There has never been one iota of evidence otherwise.[/quote]

All colleges know who the full pay applicants are. That's why a lot of mediocre rich kids get in.[/quote]

No, this is false.  Need aware schools know who is asking for financial aid.  [b]Need Blind colleges do not consider need when accepting applicants[/b].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need-blind_admission

https://blog.prepscholar.com/need-blind-colleges-list

These are facts that no evidence has ever been shown against, and not one adcom has ever said thet they knew when they didn't, despite thousands of current and former.

There are a very small number of development admit - references from large donors - but that number is extremely small compared to the general population, and controlled by the development office and not the admissions office.

I will repeat again: need blind colleges are need blind in admissions, so you do not have to worry that applying for financial aid will hurt you there.  It will not.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics