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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I couldn't sleep last night and was watching 2025 "watch me as I open my acceptances" videos on youtube. 
Many kids getting in to a half dozen top20 schools with a 3.9/1400/33/10 APs from schools in underrepresented states. I'm not even talking about Mississippi but places like Oregon, Arizona, etc. 
It's the same on Reddit.  Kids have these INSANE results (like they're choosing between Princeton, Duke and Penn) and then you read their stats and they have a 33 and no AP exams (despite taking 10 AP classes) and they're ASIAN or white as can be. 
It's freaking night and day.   :cry:  :cry:  :cry: [/quote]

a friend of mine who has worked in admissions for 20 years at a couple T5 schools says this area is like North Shore of Chicago. It's a full tier down from [b]NYC, suburban NYC, NJ, Palo Alto, some LA, and Boston[/b]. IOW we're not very special. And this area isn't even uniquely competitive.

I think we suffer from kinda boring kids with good teeth. Well off, hard working, great stats, kinda diverse in the same ways and .. pretty cookie cutter. It's tough for this one little moment in an otherwise super nice life. Our kids have had a more plush childhood that the Queen of England did. And if this little chapter is tricky -- oh no, they might have to go to Emory! -- really, we should thank our lucky stars[/quote]

So interesting. I am from NYC and the worst college outcomes I see come from NJ public schools. These families pay high taxes for absolutely nothing. Be grateful you didn’t screw your kids by moving there. [/quote]What does this mean? They live in NJ because they work nearby. Where you do suggest they live? NYC and their kids goto Stuyvesant?[/quote]

DP.

If they can't get into Stuyvesant, are they even college material?[/quote]what a silly comment,  it's not like all these kids going to hs in NJ first lived in NYC and couldn't get into Stuyvesant and had to move to NJ

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I would not send my child to Stuy even if guaranteed into the college of their choice. what a miserable four years of HS. Go to Bronx Sci and at least have a little bit of a slightly normal HS experience (though still not a ton). Stuy personifies the term "striver." Before people jump down my throat, there are obviously plenty of exceptions to this rule - there are nice, relatively normal kids there but they are the exception, not the rule.

[/quote]When I had an admissions interview at Princeton the summer before senior year, it was me and a preppy white boy. We introduced ourselves, but I had never heard of Stuyvesant at that time, and assumed it was a private or UMC public in NY or NJ because the kid mentioned driving down the turnpike. Now it's 75% Asian lol[/quote]

Princeton will be 75% Asian soon too. Their STEM is already.[/quote]

Doubt it.[/quote]

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