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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Coming from a top private:

-Admission to top schools is MUCH easier for boys than girls. It pretty much SUCKS to be a female applicant in 2025. Boys this year from our school are getting in with stats way below the girls. (I have 2 boys in upcoming admissions years so I don't say this from a point of sour grapes as an only girls mom or anything)

-Being a legacy with parents who are also VIPs or big donors is huge. I mean duh.  But wow, it just is.

-ED is such a crap shoot and I'm not sure how to play it best. My kid went for a top10 and lost (deferred) and now I have no idea how far down she'll fall. She's hoping for RD decisions to schools where classmates with GPAs much lower than hers got in ED (like 3.9 RD vs 3.4 ED). What is the right/best way to play ED? I don't know. TBD in our case.

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We are seeing the boys have a much easier time than girls too.
It’s really hard for girls.[/quote]

We are finding the opposite so far during early rounds at our private. I wonder if it's easier for strong females in the early rounds before spots dry up?

At our school, the ladies cleaned up at ivy-ish schools at our private during REA/ED: Harvard (2), Yale, Princeton, Columbia (4), Dartmouth (2), Stanford (2), Penn, Brown/RISD (dual program), Cornell! The ladies also did well in the next tier of schools (Wellesley, Barnard, WashU, etc.). Not DMV. Small school, only 100 seniors. Boys did fine with mid-tier EDs (BU, Wesleyan, Bowdoin, etc.).
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What we've seen in our school: ED1/ED2 is more successful for the strongest girls in class, whereas boys clean up in RD/Wait Lists.[/quote]

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