Anonymous
Post 05/18/2025 17:46     Subject: Exeter and Andover students
The only Andover kid I know did ED0 to Wake.
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2025 17:27     Subject: Exeter and Andover students
OP, you make it sound like everyone who ever went to Exeter or Andover ended up at an Ivy until now.
FWIW, my class at Middlebury in the 90s had lots of kids from both schools. In fact, at my 25th reunion, they did an Exeter picture because there were so many alums in my class.
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2025 16:25     Subject: Exeter and Andover students
Good article about the shift.

https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/12/princeton-data-admissions-trends-decline-high-schools-feeder
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2025 15:35     Subject: Exeter and Andover students
Kinda at the same school aren’t a monolith.
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2025 14:57     Subject: Exeter and Andover students
Anonymous wrote:St. Andrews. They all go to St. Andrews.

Not a single Exeter grad is going this year, so much for “all.”
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2025 14:48     Subject: Exeter and Andover students
I went to one of those schools. Georgetown and UChicago were popular choices for students who still wanted prestige but couldn't get an Ivy. Our Georgetown scattergram was literally exclusively acceptances after a certain GPA (that would put you in the top 30% or so).
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2025 14:41     Subject: Exeter and Andover students
St. Andrews. They all go to St. Andrews.
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2025 14:17     Subject: Exeter and Andover students
Thanks, Chat gOPt.
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2025 13:55     Subject: Exeter and Andover students
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Texas is not southern.


It is now in the SEC? Though Stanford and Berkeley are now in the ACC so who knows anymore...

It’s just not a southern place, unless you’re in east Texas. But, there’s is a Exeter grad going to university of South Carolina!
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2025 13:49     Subject: Exeter and Andover students
Anonymous wrote:Texas is not southern.


It is now in the SEC? Though Stanford and Berkeley are now in the ACC so who knows anymore...
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2025 13:48     Subject: Exeter and Andover students
Texas is not southern.
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2025 11:39     Subject: Exeter and Andover students
DC? Urban Moms
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2025 11:34     Subject: Exeter and Andover students
Anonymous wrote:If these types of students are no longer guaranteed admissions to Ivys, where are they mostly going to instead? The college destinations are all spread out so maybe these kids can be happier. If someone got into HYP a generation ago, they would just go there. But since they can’t just go to HYP by default they can be freer in their choices. So maybe one kid likes the mountains and chooses Middlebury. Another kid wants California and urban and goes to USC. And another might choose UT Austin for a southern school. This freeing up in choices should be a food experience


I don't think that is the reality. There was a suicide earlier this year. The competition got a lot more fierce over there at the Phillips. Mental well being is a serious issue for students in elite high schools.
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2025 11:22     Subject: Exeter and Andover students
okay?

also these schools limit the apps a kid can submit. so if you know you're not a Harvard legacy with a 4.0, you move on mentally by 10th grade. I think that part is healthier
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2025 11:20     Subject: Exeter and Andover students
If these types of students are no longer guaranteed admissions to Ivys, where are they mostly going to instead? The college destinations are all spread out so maybe these kids can be happier. If someone got into HYP a generation ago, they would just go there. But since they can’t just go to HYP by default they can be freer in their choices. So maybe one kid likes the mountains and chooses Middlebury. Another kid wants California and urban and goes to USC. And another might choose UT Austin for a southern school. This freeing up in choices should be a food experience