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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would be more interested in hearing one example of a kid with strong academics who is full pay and got rejected. I doubt it exists.[/quote]

I haven’t seen it in ED, but a few kids I know from our private with the high stats got rejected in RD last year.  Bates is not a safety. [/quote]

Bates is an ED safety--especially for any full pay applicant. Both the school & the town have lots of issues.[/quote]

Careful. DD was FP ED a couple of years ago, good grades, scores, ECs, leadership, community. Deferred ED then rejected. Accepted RD at almost every other SLAC she applied including Williams. Assume nothing. [/quote]

No way a FP kid got rejected ED from Bates and then accepted RD at Williams. Makes no sense. There has to be special circumstances if true. [/quote]

Uncommon is a more accurate assessment, not ”no way.” Colleges repeat ad nauseum that they are assembling a class, and there are far more qualified applicants than there are spaces. So of course qualified applicants will get turned away, and sometimes admitted at higher ranked schools.

Some folks on this forum have bought into the rankings hook line and sinker. I guess if you derive meaning and value in your life through having your kid attend a marginally higher ranked school, that’s ok. But I feel for the kids whose parents are this insane over a spaces in college rankings. And fail to take into account who their child is and where they will thrive. The mental health toll of driving kids to excel and compete so their parents can flex . . . new hobbies for parents would be better [/quote]

I’m the PP whose DD was deferred/rejected (or maybe deferred/waitlisted, can’t remember but the net result was the same). We just figured they had plenty of applicants who on paper looked a lot like my kid that cycle, and they didn’t want to build a whole class of kids like that.

It would be comforting, I suppose, if there were some clear logic to it, as if admission were a precise science, entirely predictable. “Williams is more selective than Bates, therefore every kid who gets into Williams would obviously also get into Bates.” My only point in posting was that sometimes things aren’t that tidy or linear.

At any rate, no hard feelings to Bates. I’m sure the kids they accepted were great. That’s the only issue — there really are more great kids than slots. [/quote]

Just to be clear, your FP kid was deferred and rejected ED, but got into Williams RD (which is like next to impossible)? It’s just implausible to me, why would they reject a high stats full pay kid ED?[/quote]

Correct. This is what happened.

Like I say, our best guess is that Bates didn’t want to build a class out of a particular kind of kid, but that’s just conjecture. [/quote]

Re-reading with some coffee in my system. To clarify, I can’t say for sure if the RD decision from Bates was a waitlist or a rejection. But it was definitely an ED deferral followed by an RD non-acceptance. [/quote]

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