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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]re the Big 3 /State school debate..Our Big 3 college counselor admitted to us that this year was really bad for us at Michigan and Wisconsin (and other big state schools) partially due to the common app and the deluge of applications , grad deflation and "a changing landscape".  We did not have a ton of kids get into some of the popular state schools. Case in point a kid at our school got into an Ivy and was rejected at Michigan and Wisconsin. That's just one anecdote but there were a lot of similar examples.

I think the Big 3 are arrogant to cling to the assumption that the schools ALL know how "rigorous" they are. [b]Also, it was a huge mistake to get rid of AP's[/b]. I think colleges do not have the time or energy to parse out the difference between upper level classes at Sidwell or Gds vs AP English at Wilson. This is a mistake that our kids are paying for in this new landscape.[/quote]

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Getting rid of APs isn’t a problem. Schools like Trinity, Collegiate, Brearley, etc. haven’t offered AP classes in years. Those schools still send 30-40% of their graduates to the Ivy League.

https://www.trinityschoolnyc.org/list-detail?pk=48902[/quote]

We are at one of those schools and the vast majority of parents are wealthy Ivy legacies.
Of course their hooked children will help keep up that 30-40% stat. [/quote]

Legacy isn’t a guarantee.  I know an URM girl who just graduated from a local Catholic school.  She is a double double (quadruple?) Harvard legacy (both parents graduated from Harvard College and HLS).  She had top grades, but unsure about test scores.  At any rate, Harvard said no.  She will attend an out of state flagship university in the fall.

Btw, let’s give Trinity some respect. If a school is STILL sending ~40% of its graduates to eight of the most selective universities in the world (in this post-COVID test optional environment); then the school is doing something right (or illegal—lol).[/quote]

Unrelated, but would be curious as to how you approached them about this and what their exact response was. If I was the parent of that kid, I would be too embarrassed to tell someone that both myself and my spouse went to a university that my kid was just rejected to. I would probably lie and say they didn’t want to go or got a full scholarship elsewhere or something. [/quote]

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