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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you full-pay?  For a male humanities student, Vassar.  St. Olaf, Grinnell, Beloit...[/quote]

Yes, full pay.

Vassals and Grinnell are on the list but I assume they are matches/reaches.  [/quote]

Grinnell waitlisted my high stats kid this year. I had heard they have a reputation for yield protection, but it's also possible that they just weren't interested. (I know they've risen in rankings in recent years and admissions have become more competitive.)

Potential safeties on my student's long list:

Beloit
Earlham
Hendrix
Kalamazoo
Knox
Lawrence
Skidmore
Wooster

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Did your child demonstrate interest at Grinnell?[/quote]

No chance of visiting due to COVID but did attend online programs and interviewed. Tried to tailor application accordingly.  Luckily got into a highly ranked school that my kid ultimately  preferred. It still stung, though, as Grinnell would have been a strong contender.[/quote]

No offense, but saying his rejection "stung" sounds a little entitled.  The school had a 30 percent increase in applications and its acceptance rate was 10 percent.  It's a very selective school.

http://www.thesandb.com/article/grinnell-college-application-rates-spike-after-pandemic-related-changes.html[/quote]

I'm not PP but I don't see what's wrong with a teen feeling bad about being rejected from a school that they really liked, even if they were accepted to a school that they ultimately liked more? She didn't say her DC "expected" to be accepted there?  Just that it stung to be rejected.

Sure, as a parent, I'd probably point out to DC that, given they were accepted to a preferred school, they should be happy that they were not taking a spot away from someone else who either had Grinnell as their top choice or didn't get into their top choice and wanted Grinnell as a strong second. (Ie you didn't need your strong second - so be glad it went to a first choice or a strong second that was needed)[/quote]

Except she speculated that it might have been "yield protection" because he was a "high stats kid."  So, yea, there's some sense of entitlement there.[/quote]

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