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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Big 3 senior parent. Hearing many RD bloodbath stories. Like zeroed out on targets and certainly reaches. I’m counting WL as a zero.

Have heard 5 or 6 of these just since last night.

RD was a waste this year. ED I and ED II are the only way now for a high/high middle stats kid who is unhooked or only hook is legacy. Legacy alone days are done. Legacy kids need a double hook and ED.

RD is not just a lottery but powerball lottery odds

I’m sure many here will troll this post.

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What kind of schools are you talking about? Where will these kids end up attending?

All these dramatic posts are useless without actual college examples.  We don't know if you're talking about top 20% kids getting shut out of Ivies or getting shut out of every top 50 school they applied to. Or worse-getting shut out period.  These posts could literally mean any of the above.  I'm a Big3 parent of a 10tb grader and I'd love to know what is actually meant (with examples) [/quote]

OK, I'll bite.  Here are some of the schools that said "Nope!" to my niece who attends either Sidwell or NCS:  UCSB.  UCSD.  Wash U. Barnard. BU. Davidson. UVA.

This is a young woman in the top 20% or so, highest math/science track, 1500 SAT and killer ECs.  White.  Not VIP.

They have 2 options in the USNWR ~200 range, and one of those scammy options where you get the name of the school on your diploma but never attend class at the main campus, because you're in Amsterdam or something for $100k a year[/quote]

She's going to a school ranked at 200?  like the University of Detroit?

She took BC calc, physics C in 11th grade?

-and she's going to someplace like University of Detroit or Robert Morris University?

I'm sorry.  
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Oh FFS, there are plenty of good schools in the top 400!! There are 4,000 colleges and universities in the US! [/quote]

Those are just examples of schools ranked near 200.  the poster said her niece only had options ranked at 200.  I just thought it extremely unbelievable that a kid would have no options between top 30 schools and the University of Detroit. [/quote]

DP: It's not as if every kid is applying to every school on the list. You take a shot at a few top schools, and a sprinkling of schools in other ranges down the line, as she clearly did, and you hope someone bites. Those mid range schools didn't work out -- she wasn't rejected from all of the schools between 30 and 200 -- no one can apply to all of them and it isn't a forced rank system. It's all a gamble. [/quote]

The niece only applied to 2 outside the T30 it seems.  That's the problem.  You can't have only 2 "targets" and no safeties.  In fact, we don't even know if those were true targets---Acceptance rates higher than 25%.  Niece may have applied to all Reaches and that is where the issue is.  You do that, you run the risk of disappointment come March.  Kids need to learn to apply to 3-4 true targets and 3-4 true safeties/likelies.  Not just 10-12 hard reaches.   
5 years ago that was not a good idea, and it certainly is not a good idea now.

Those of us who have a balanced list for our kids tend to do better.  My kid got into all their targets and safeties.  Only got denied/WL/Go abroad freshman year at their 4 reaches and even then only outright denied at 1 school (WL/go abroad at the other 3).  Nothing special, just a well curated list of true targets and safeties, including schools they would be thrilled to attend.  SO much that my kid had their top safety on the final list of 3 schools and revisited them in April.  Only ditched that school for real reasons---a 7 week quarter system that might not be the best environment for someone who is a chronic procrastinator.  otherwise they were seriously considering turning down 2 T30 schools and going to their safety. [/quote]

I'm the PP with a niece.  If she wasn't so disappointed in her options, your confidence that I/we are trolls would be funny.  Remember this is a thread about Sidwell, STA/NCS, GDS.  We are lamenting that these schools maybe aren't having the results that they expect. It sounds like the PPs calling me a liar don't have kids there.

Today I'm working with niece to write an I Love You letter to my alma mater where she was waitlisted.  Here is her complete list and outcomes.  The bolded are accepts, everything else is reject/wl.  I also added USNWR rankings.  Recall niece is top 20% of class, highest math-science, beautiful ECs, white non-VIP.

The original point of my post is that the results below don't resemble the sort of results a kid like this could expect a decade ago.  My own kids did "better" coming from the same school a few years ago pre-pandemic.

[i]OK, I'll bite. Here are some of the schools that said "Nope!" to my niece who attends either Sidwell or NCS:

UCSB (32). UCSD (34) . Wash U (15). Barnard (18th LAC). BU (41) Davidson (15th LAC) . UVA (25) [/i]

flagship state school (50s)

[b]a private university (40s)[/b]

[b]regional university (not even nationally ranked)[/b]

[b]an LAC (30s of all LACs)[/b]

a private university (20s)

[b]a private university (60s)[/b]

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** full pay, SAT submitted 1500.[/quote]

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