Anonymous
02/07/2025 20:56
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
At DC’s private school, over the past couple of years:
Top 10 percent: Harvard, Yale, Duke, Chicago, etc.
Next decile: Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Chicago, etc.
Next decile: Michigan, UVA, BC, etc.
Top 10 percent: Harvard, Yale, Duke, Chicago, etc.
Next decile: Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Chicago, etc.
Next decile: Michigan, UVA, BC, etc.
Anonymous
02/07/2025 20:54
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:This is a s/o of the Duke vs Northwestern post below.
Here is what I've noticed at our selective NYC public:
--Top 10% or high stats + hook: HYP + Columbia + Penn (Wharton, VIPER or Engineering) .
--High stats, missing national level ECs or hook: Duke, Georgetown, Northwestern, Brown, Penn
--High stats + normal ECs OR some flaw on their record (like a bad grade or two) - Cornell, Chicago, JHU - these kids do very well with ED to the latter two.
--Mid to lower stats + no hook - public school or T50 possibly with merit. Most parents won't pay full for that level.
S and M are rare (most commonly high stats URM); no one gets into Dart or Vandy, for whatever reason
Curious if this is similar to other selective/feeder schools.
Curious how one parent would know all of this for a senior class. Only a high school college counselor would have this much info.
OP is pretty much listing the USNWR T25. 🤣
Anonymous
02/07/2025 20:50
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Define “mid stats”?
I’m seeing a lot of kids with 1500+ SATs and almost perfect grades headed for Emory/Wash U/Tufts…
How on earth would you know their SAT scores and grades?
They don't, this is completely made up.
Anonymous
02/07/2025 20:42
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Define “mid stats”?
I’m seeing a lot of kids with 1500+ SATs and almost perfect grades headed for Emory/Wash U/Tufts…
How on earth would you know their SAT scores and grades?
They don’t, most of this is conjecture.
Anonymous
02/07/2025 20:27
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:Define “mid stats”?
I’m seeing a lot of kids with 1500+ SATs and almost perfect grades headed for Emory/Wash U/Tufts…
How on earth would you know their SAT scores and grades?
Anonymous
02/07/2025 20:22
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Define “mid stats”?
I’m seeing a lot of kids with 1500+ SATs and almost perfect grades headed for Emory/Wash U/Tufts…
I’m seeing a lot of kids with 1500+ SATs and almost perfect grades headed for Emory/Wash U/Tufts…
Anonymous
02/07/2025 20:21
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
How long before the you-know-who booster shows up because his/her school isn't being discussed?
Anonymous
02/07/2025 20:12
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:This is a s/o of the Duke vs Northwestern post below.
Here is what I've noticed at our selective NYC public:
--Top 10% or high stats + hook: HYP + Columbia + Penn (Wharton, VIPER or Engineering) .
--High stats, missing national level ECs or hook: Duke, Georgetown, Northwestern, Brown, Penn
--High stats + normal ECs OR some flaw on their record (like a bad grade or two) - Cornell, Chicago, JHU - these kids do very well with ED to the latter two.
--Mid to lower stats + no hook - public school or T50 possibly with merit. Most parents won't pay full for that level.
S and M are rare (most commonly high stats URM); no one gets into Dart or Vandy, for whatever reason
Curious if this is similar to other selective/feeder schools.
Pretty accurate for DMV but would probably put Columbia down a notch and put Duke up a notch to the top tier. Might also put Vandy on the same level as JHU, Chicago etc.
Anonymous
02/07/2025 19:54
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:Non-DMV selective private:
--Top 10% or high stats + hook: HYP+ Columbia + Penn (Wharton), Duke
--High stats, missing national level ECs or hook: Northwestern, Brown, Penn, Dartmouth, Williams
—national ECs (stats irrelevant): Stanford; (and sometimes) Duke
--High stats + normal ECs OR some flaw on their record (like a bad grade or two) and hook - Cornell, Chicago, Rice, Vanderbilt, Amherst, Georgetown
--Mid stats + no hook - Michigan; UCLA; Cal; WashU; Emory
Impressive for mid stats IMO!
Anonymous
02/07/2025 18:41
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
^ No Princeton either
Anonymous
02/07/2025 18:40
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Boring, more handwringing over schools your kids won’t even get into….!
Anonymous
02/07/2025 18:39
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Small magnet - no clue of the nuances of each but year to year is fairly consistent.
2 Yale
1-2 Brown
1-2 Penn
1-2 Dartmouth
1 Stanford
3 Duke
1 Northwestern
1 Georgetown
1 Notre Dame
Never seen a Harvard or Cornell in the 5 years I’ve tracked it.
2 Yale
1-2 Brown
1-2 Penn
1-2 Dartmouth
1 Stanford
3 Duke
1 Northwestern
1 Georgetown
1 Notre Dame
Never seen a Harvard or Cornell in the 5 years I’ve tracked it.
Anonymous
02/07/2025 18:39
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Non-DMV selective private:
--Top 10% or high stats + hook: HYP+ Columbia + Penn (Wharton), Duke
--High stats, missing national level ECs or hook: Northwestern, Brown, Penn, Dartmouth, Williams
—national ECs (stats irrelevant): Stanford; (and sometimes) Duke
--High stats + normal ECs OR some flaw on their record (like a bad grade or two) and hook - Cornell, Chicago, Rice, Vanderbilt, Amherst, Georgetown
--Mid stats + no hook - Michigan; UCLA; Cal; WashU; Emory
--Top 10% or high stats + hook: HYP+ Columbia + Penn (Wharton), Duke
--High stats, missing national level ECs or hook: Northwestern, Brown, Penn, Dartmouth, Williams
—national ECs (stats irrelevant): Stanford; (and sometimes) Duke
--High stats + normal ECs OR some flaw on their record (like a bad grade or two) and hook - Cornell, Chicago, Rice, Vanderbilt, Amherst, Georgetown
--Mid stats + no hook - Michigan; UCLA; Cal; WashU; Emory
Anonymous
02/07/2025 17:53
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Interesting analysis of the extremely tiny differences between the colleges chosen by the 1%.
Anonymous
02/07/2025 16:53
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
This is a s/o of the Duke vs Northwestern post below.
Here is what I've noticed at our selective NYC public:
--Top 10% or high stats + hook: HYP + Columbia + Penn (Wharton, VIPER or Engineering) .
--High stats, missing national level ECs or hook: Duke, Georgetown, Northwestern, Brown, Penn
--High stats + normal ECs OR some flaw on their record (like a bad grade or two) - Cornell, Chicago, JHU - these kids do very well with ED to the latter two.
--Mid to lower stats + no hook - public school or T50 possibly with merit. Most parents won't pay full for that level.
S and M are rare (most commonly high stats URM); no one gets into Dart or Vandy, for whatever reason
Curious if this is similar to other selective/feeder schools.
Here is what I've noticed at our selective NYC public:
--Top 10% or high stats + hook: HYP + Columbia + Penn (Wharton, VIPER or Engineering) .
--High stats, missing national level ECs or hook: Duke, Georgetown, Northwestern, Brown, Penn
--High stats + normal ECs OR some flaw on their record (like a bad grade or two) - Cornell, Chicago, JHU - these kids do very well with ED to the latter two.
--Mid to lower stats + no hook - public school or T50 possibly with merit. Most parents won't pay full for that level.
S and M are rare (most commonly high stats URM); no one gets into Dart or Vandy, for whatever reason
Curious if this is similar to other selective/feeder schools.