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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The 70/120 at Trinity is excluding those going to very strong but not top schools like Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna, Emory, Georgetown, Haverford, U Michigan, NYU, UVA, etc. If you add those schools, that gets you to 95 of the 110 students that have declared college destinations. The bottom 15 of the class are going to schools including Colby, Lehigh, McGill, Middlebury, Northeastern, Pitzer, St. Andrews, Tufts, Tulane, UT-Austin, and Wesleyan.[/quote]

Sorry, but that's not the "bottom" 15. I see Syracuse, Colgate, U of Miami, SMU, UMD, Mississippi, Colorado State, Trinity College, and Hamilton, many of which are below your bottom 15 schools. And Haverford, Emory, Michigan, NYU, and UVA are at least on par with, if not below, Tufts, Wesleyan, and Middlebury. [/quote]

of the schools i have glanced at - The Trinity results are the most below my expectations of what i would have expected.  out of the 105 or so kids, at least 25% are going to what i would consider "subpar" schools relative to the Trinity reputation.

anyone have thoughts on why that would be the case?  [/quote]

It’s very weird that a bunch of adults are stalking high school instagram pages for college decisions. The quality of these institutions doesn’t change from year to year. Just because Brearley sent more kids to Harvard this year does not make it objectively better than another school. Next year they will have a different class profile and may get fewer acceptances.  Not every kid at Trinity is going to get into an Ivy.  Not every kid is going to stand out in a very competitive field. there are also lots of reasons why a kid may choose one school over another. Some kids are looking for fit and some may be going where they get the most money. Also, many of these “lesser than” schools are much more competitive than they were a generation ago and, as a result, I think teenagers today have a more expansive view of what a “good college” is.  If you’re sending your kid to one of these schools you should think about whether you’ll think it’s a waste if they end up at Emory or Wake Forest.[/quote]

I think looking at public instagrams is fine (they are public for a reason), but a better indicia would be the school websites that list 5-year matriculations (and without naming specific students for those who don't like that aspect of the instagram posts, a pov I can understand even if I don't agree).[/quote]

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