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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question: how can you expect the “best and brightest” to be reading your kids’ applications when none of you would apparently encourage (or allow?) your own best and brightest kids to pursue a job like this?[/quote]

Do they pay what a "best and brightest" college graduate would expect to get?[/quote]

Of course not. I was using the OP’s own words. “You really wonder whether the best and brightest are reading our kids applications…” Um, no. I don’t wonder at all. Nor do I think they need to be.[/quote]

Often people here go on about how well admissions officiers understand their high school, understand its grading policy etc. Then you read this thread about low paid temps.[/quote]

This is so true. “Oh they know the rigor of GDS/Sidwell/NCS at XYZ school” that’s a falsehood often repeated here on DCUM.

Or “of course they know that when our school dropped AP courses that “extended” and “UL” mean rigor” - uh no.

Hogwash. Outside of a small number of SLACs who perhaps have a longer history of taking many kids from DC private schools (Tufts - GDS is a recent example), there is precious little institutional memory of our sacred schools here.

The minimum wage sweat shop front end readers are scoring applications with zero context and once that score is in, it’s there. Of course the next higher level reader can score it higher but the application is in the low pile based on the front end reader and so you are effectively done.

Lessons learned as a senior parent. Believe none of the happy talk. Focus on SAT/ACT 1500 or 34+, no grades below A- in 10th and 11th (and ideally 9th) in the core subjects, and maximal rigor if you want a top 30.

If your kid doesn’t have that and they are unhooked, forget about Top 30. And even 31-50 are tough coin flips. [/quote]

This is true. And you better ED to the 31-50 range school you like.[/quote]

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