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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You just have to take everything you read here with a grain of salt. That thread about where your kid is going has like 6 kids going to Stanford. Doubt it. We have a lot of teenagers here and a lot of people who just like to troll. [/quote]

It's just weird all the kids seem to have SAT scores above 1500. It'd be nice to see where kids who are good students but not top go.[/quote]

I think that’s because schools like George Mason, UMBC or local Jesuit colleges suit the needs of most kids with SATs in the 1100 to 1400 range very well and have plenty of capacity. As long as those kids are happy with the normal options and can pay for the options, they don’t have to think about this a lot.

The kids with scores under 1400 who have college application stress are probably fairly unusual kids who have test scores that fail to reflect their abilities, have an unusually high level of ambition, have Tiger parents, need a lot of merit aid or need something the regular college options don’t offer.

Meanwhile, for kids with scores over 1400 in places like Maryland and Virginia, most of the normal college options are now highly selective schools with capacity problems and complicated, unpredictable admissions processes. They need a lot more advice than the kids aiming for the less selective schools need. [/quote]

I'll bite.  Tell us what "local jesuit college" allows for under 1500.  Citation, please. [/quote]

1. You’re responding to me here. Obviously: Most people here with kids with SATs under 1400 either have a hard time getting information (because, for example, they’re from other countries) or their kids have the special situations.

2. An example of an area Jesuit college that’s hungry for students, has an 84% acceptance rate and has a cutoff of just 1267 for students to be in the top quarter and cutoff of 1100 for the bottom quarter: Loyola University Maryland — https://www.niche.com/colleges/loyola-university-maryland/

It has about 4,000 students and a lovely urban campus.

Just the fact that it’s a Jesuit school means that it’s probably a great school either for a student who just wants a credential or for a student who enjoys the classes and wants to go deeper.

Most kids with SATs over 1400 might not leap to go there, but it seems like a fine, accessible school. If a student who’s a good fit for that school wants to go there, that student doesn’t have to spend a lot of time going on DCUM to figure out what the admissions office will want. [/quote]

Loyola is a great school in many ways and the faculty is excellent (I was an adjunct tgere for a few years after attending grad school). It is pretty expensive. [/quote]

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