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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We tell applicants every year why they get rejected. There’s a lot of other applicants, the applicant pool was strong, and your application wasn’t at the top. Learning to take no for an answer is an important skill.[/quote]

That doesn’t help current juniors choose which schools to put on their college list. The “advice” seems to be, “apply to as many schools as humanly possible, because you have no right to get into any, no matter how well you did in high school! And there’s no way to predict in advance which might accept you!”[/quote]
The advice is to apply to 2 or so safety schools, mostly apply to schools your stats align with, and have a couple reach schools. Any "pressure" to get into a top college is self inflicted.[/quote]

“Any pressure to get into a top college is self inflicted” they say, in the same breath that they tell high-stats kids they should “mostly apply to colleges their stats align with.” This idea that high stats kids should go top colleges, where could it possibly be coming from?[/quote]

Anybody advising solely based on stats is an idiot. Stats means nothing in holistic review. High stat kids with average activities and essays are boring, deal with it. [/quote]

[b]Exactly. I think there is one poster (OP) keeping this thread alive.[/b] They gave regrets. Probably thought the stars were enough, didn’t educate themselves.

Advice-the competition doesn’t end at admissions. It moves on to clubs, internships, jobs. Start focusing your kid in that. Many freshman need help securing the first internship. Your guidance your kid is better channeled there than in this thread.

For junior parents: use all the resources that are out there to get smart. And it’s a crap shoot even after that….[/quote]

Yes, and the writing style of this poster seems suspiciously similar to a rabid and active poster from the private school forum, who not long ago, also demanded transparency with private school admissions. This post ended very badly as everyone disagreed with them and tried patiently to explain how private schools work, and they ended up spouting a bunch of similar populist slogans about private schools being "greedy corporations" and that they should be taxed for holistic admissions policies and admitting unqualified minorities and as well as the children of oligarchs. At first they claimed to have a child in private school, but by the end it was clear they did not and were just trolling, unless their vitriol against private schools and private school parents was hypocritical. [/quote]

ok will start tagging "report" for all of their threads.[/quote]

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