Anonymous wrote:Barnard

Barnard of the one digit acceptance rate?

Anonymous wrote:If they really were top scorers with no red flags, its very unlikely they'll end up at a safety. Well, that is if they applied to more top schools other than HYSPM. Most would get into at least one T25.

This just isn't true. You are probably thinking as if kids apply to every school in the top 25. They don't. They take a shot at a few of them, and if that doesn't work out, they are looking at targets -- many of which fill up during ED/EA rounds with kids who don't shoot for the moon, and so some kids end up at the safety on the list of 10 or so schools they actually applied to. and geography matters. If a kid doesn't want to fly to college that eliminates a lot of school in the Top 25 from the list to start with.

Applying to 25 schools with test scores can end up costing you over $3000.

Maryland.

Anonymous wrote:If they really were top scorers with no red flags, its very unlikely they'll end up at a safety. Well, that is if they applied to more top schools other than HYSPM. Most would get into at least one T25.

Not true. I know NMFs with no ECs who ended up at #150, #200, #120 schools.

Penn State

If they really were top scorers with no red flags, its very unlikely they'll end up at a safety. Well, that is if they applied to more top schools other than HYSPM. Most would get into at least one T25.

Anonymous wrote:You mean "if your high-scorer didn't get in anywhere you deem acceptable: where are they now?" Because the premise is that the kid DID go to college. The horror of having to go to a target or safety.

It’s a reasonable question. College admissions are a crap shoot for a lot of kids and there are some high stats kids who don’t get into places where you think they would.

You mean "if your high-scorer didn't get in anywhere you deem acceptable: where are they now?" Because the premise is that the kid DID go to college. The horror of having to go to a target or safety.

Mine is at Wisconsin, which was a safety. He has said a couple of times that if he had known this was where he was going, he would have had a little more fun in high school and wouldn't have killed himself taking such hard classes. In the end, no one understood what happened -- other than the two rounds of ED didn't work out and then he was stuck in the seventh circle of waitlist hell until early July. He got into one or two schools that might be considered better than Wisconsin but there are more opportunities in his major in Madison. I wish the process hadn't sucked so much and I wish he had been more proud of how it turned out but at the end of the day it doesn't really matter and he is happy.

Anonymous wrote:if they didn't get in anywhere, then, of course, they are living in the basement!

Yep

Tufts, Occidental

Barnard

if they didn't get in anywhere, then, of course, they are living in the basement!

Friend's kid rejected from Cornell, MIT and the like. Attending Stony Brook from in-state (State University of New York).

Did they go to a safety? Which safety? Did they stay? Did they take a gap year?