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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can take kids with lower stats who are full pay. This is the group that benefits the most it seems.[/quote]

It's always full pay kids and it is always about playing with stats. That's true. But it's no longer about getting rich, low SAT kids in -- it's about gaming the diversity numbers.

These days, Spring Admits and "early starts" are almost universally high socioeconomic white/asian kids. The school gets these high achieving/non-diverse kids without having to count them when reporting that X% of the incoming class are diverse admits, X% are first gen, etc.

My high SAT/GPA DD (1580/A-) was accepted to a "summer start" program and a two Spring Admit program. The zooms for each were full of white or asian kids (no other diversity at all). It was stark and impossible not to notice.  Our CCO has been blunt that this is the new reality.

Schools are gaming the system for sure, it's just the category that has shifted.[/quote]

I'm confused. Wouldn't a kid with these stats be admitted for a fall start, but someone full pay but lower stats is accepted summer/spring admit?[/quote]

Nope, not any more. Now the colleges are "gaming" the demographic group reporting (not the standardized testing numbers). Meaning: since every school now wants to show high diversity and first gen numbers, they use these programs to fill spots for white/asian kids without impacting the diversity numbers they have to show for the fall). They still want high stat kids and, like it or not, a lot of high stat kids are white/asian, so they still want those kids they just don't want to look like the school "isn't diverse enough."  Another way for schools to play games.[/quote]

Okay, got it. I had only heard about taking full pay kids with lower stats in these "off" seasons, but had not heard about it for other demographic reasons. [/quote]

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