Anonymous wrote:The two conversations exist in parallel but separate universes, thereby avoiding the issue of internal inconsistency.

I think they are entirely consistent.

Sidwell has lots of kids who will succeed at these colleges. They know that the colleges will refuse to accept all the qualified candidates, so sidwell gets to choose which kids to support from a pool of well qualified kids. How they make that decision is what is being questioned.

Ahh. The real world intrudes. Sidwell is not the center of the universe.

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Anonymous wrote:Its been brutal at sidwell this year... lots of early deferrals and rejections, so far I believe my DDs class has had the following positive results:
1 to Stanford
1 to Harvard
1 to Cornell
1 to Brown
1 to Middlebury
We are waiting for Yale and UPenn early next week, which together take up around 35% of the class' early applicants (around 30 kids between them)

You are light on the numbers at Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, and I think Brown.

My DC is waiting for Princeton in Monday, and I think others in the SFS class also applied there. Only 1 to Stanford? Yikes. I know a few kids applied to Wharton, but that admits separate from the College at UPenn. Harvard deferred almost everyone it dodn't accept, so I am not sure how many outright rejections there were. I think one of my child's friends from this class also got into Duke. So nervewracking this early!!

One early to Stanford isn't bad. They are the stingiest with EA acceptances (lowest EA accept rate) with a lot of slots going to support their massive athletics program. Being deferred into regular pool is very much the norm for even the strongest candidates. Legacy status tends not to matter as much either. The crowding effect at Yale and Penn are a bit concerning, however.

Maybe all those posts about the evil college counselors who were being so horrible by trying to "steer people away from applying" to a particular school of their dreams bear some re-examination? Hmmmmm . . . .

They're not evil, just inept.

The fault, my dear friends, lies not in low admissions percentages at Ivy League Schools, but in one adult at my child's secondary school. (Ah, Shakespeare . . . the Bard really has something for all occasions!)

Anonymous wrote:The two conversations exist in parallel but separate universes, thereby avoiding the issue of internal inconsistency.

Nicely phrased.

Anonymous wrote:Its been brutal at sidwell this year... lots of early deferrals and rejections, so far I believe my DDs class has had the following positive results:
1 to Stanford
1 to Harvard
1 to Cornell
1 to Brown
1 to Middlebury
We are waiting for Yale and UPenn early next week, which together take up around 35% of the class' early applicants (around 30 kids between them)

Interesting that Sidwell is having a brutal year but other schools, for example GDS, are enjoying continued success in selective early admissions.

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Anonymous wrote:Its been brutal at sidwell this year... lots of early deferrals and rejections, so far I believe my DDs class has had the following positive results:
1 to Stanford
1 to Harvard
1 to Cornell
1 to Brown
1 to Middlebury
We are waiting for Yale and UPenn early next week, which together take up around 35% of the class' early applicants (around 30 kids between them)

You are light on the numbers at Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, and I think Brown.

My DC is waiting for Princeton in Monday, and I think others in the SFS class also applied there. Only 1 to Stanford? Yikes. I know a few kids applied to Wharton, but that admits separate from the College at UPenn. Harvard deferred almost everyone it dodn't accept, so I am not sure how many outright rejections there were. I think one of my child's friends from this class also got into Duke. So nervewracking this early!!

One early to Stanford isn't bad. They are the stingiest with EA acceptances (lowest EA accept rate) with a lot of slots going to support their massive athletics program. Being deferred into regular pool is very much the norm for even the strongest candidates. Legacy status tends not to matter as much either. The crowding effect at Yale and Penn are a bit concerning, however.

Maybe all those posts about the evil college counselors who were being so horrible by trying to "steer people away from applying" to a particular school of their dreams bear some re-examination? Hmmmmm . . . .

They're not evil, just inept.

The two conversations exist in parallel but separate universes, thereby avoiding the issue of internal inconsistency.

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Anonymous wrote:Its been brutal at sidwell this year... lots of early deferrals and rejections, so far I believe my DDs class has had the following positive results:
1 to Stanford
1 to Harvard
1 to Cornell
1 to Brown
1 to Middlebury
We are waiting for Yale and UPenn early next week, which together take up around 35% of the class' early applicants (around 30 kids between them)

You are light on the numbers at Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, and I think Brown.

My DC is waiting for Princeton in Monday, and I think others in the SFS class also applied there. Only 1 to Stanford? Yikes. I know a few kids applied to Wharton, but that admits separate from the College at UPenn. Harvard deferred almost everyone it dodn't accept, so I am not sure how many outright rejections there were. I think one of my child's friends from this class also got into Duke. So nervewracking this early!!

One early to Stanford isn't bad. They are the stingiest with EA acceptances (lowest EA accept rate) with a lot of slots going to support their massive athletics program. Being deferred into regular pool is very much the norm for even the strongest candidates. Legacy status tends not to matter as much either. The crowding effect at Yale and Penn are a bit concerning, however.

Maybe all those posts about the evil college counselors who were being so horrible by trying to "steer people away from applying" to a particular school of their dreams bear some re-examination? Hmmmmm . . . .

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Anonymous wrote:Its been brutal at sidwell this year... lots of early deferrals and rejections, so far I believe my DDs class has had the following positive results:
1 to Stanford
1 to Harvard
1 to Cornell
1 to Brown
1 to Middlebury
We are waiting for Yale and UPenn early next week, which together take up around 35% of the class' early applicants (around 30 kids between them)

You are light on the numbers at Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, and I think Brown.

My DC is waiting for Princeton in Monday, and I think others in the SFS class also applied there. Only 1 to Stanford? Yikes. I know a few kids applied to Wharton, but that admits separate from the College at UPenn. Harvard deferred almost everyone it dodn't accept, so I am not sure how many outright rejections there were. I think one of my child's friends from this class also got into Duke. So nervewracking this early!!

One early to Stanford isn't bad. They are the stingiest with EA acceptances (lowest EA accept rate) with a lot of slots going to support their massive athletics program. Being deferred into regular pool is very much the norm for even the strongest candidates. Legacy status tends not to matter as much either. The crowding effect at Yale and Penn are a bit concerning, however.

Penn has made it pretty clear that ED is your best shot, so I think a lot of kids apply there early because they can only pick one early school (at least among the most selective) so they want to get the most bang for their buck, so to speak. Not sure why Yale, except there are quite a few legacy parents (at least among the kids that I know applied ED) so maybe there was a bigger push at Sidwell this year to go early and go legacy. MIT is also coming out this afternoon, so maybe there will be some admits there. I think there were a few admits to Vanderbilt, Smith and Williams too.

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Anonymous wrote:Its been brutal at sidwell this year... lots of early deferrals and rejections, so far I believe my DDs class has had the following positive results:
1 to Stanford
1 to Harvard
1 to Cornell
1 to Brown
1 to Middlebury
We are waiting for Yale and UPenn early next week, which together take up around 35% of the class' early applicants (around 30 kids between them)

You are light on the numbers at Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, and I think Brown.

My DC is waiting for Princeton in Monday, and I think others in the SFS class also applied there. Only 1 to Stanford? Yikes. I know a few kids applied to Wharton, but that admits separate from the College at UPenn. Harvard deferred almost everyone it dodn't accept, so I am not sure how many outright rejections there were. I think one of my child's friends from this class also got into Duke. So nervewracking this early!!

One early to Stanford isn't bad. They are the stingiest with EA acceptances (lowest EA accept rate) with a lot of slots going to support their massive athletics program. Being deferred into regular pool is very much the norm for even the strongest candidates. Legacy status tends not to matter as much either. The crowding effect at Yale and Penn are a bit concerning, however.

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Anonymous wrote:Its been brutal at sidwell this year... lots of early deferrals and rejections, so far I believe my DDs class has had the following positive results:
1 to Stanford
1 to Harvard
1 to Cornell
1 to Brown
1 to Middlebury
We are waiting for Yale and UPenn early next week, which together take up around 35% of the class' early applicants (around 30 kids between them)

You are light on the numbers at Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, and I think Brown.

My DC is waiting for Princeton in Monday, and I think others in the SFS class also applied there. Only 1 to Stanford? Yikes. I know a few kids applied to Wharton, but that admits separate from the College at UPenn. Harvard deferred almost everyone it dodn't accept, so I am not sure how many outright rejections there were. I think one of my child's friends from this class also got into Duke. So nervewracking this early!!

Anonymous wrote:Its been brutal at sidwell this year... lots of early deferrals and rejections, so far I believe my DDs class has had the following positive results:
1 to Stanford
1 to Harvard
1 to Cornell
1 to Brown
1 to Middlebury
We are waiting for Yale and UPenn early next week, which together take up around 35% of the class' early applicants (around 30 kids between them)

You are light on the numbers at Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, and I think Brown.

Its been brutal at sidwell this year... lots of early deferrals and rejections, so far I believe my DDs class has had the following positive results:
1 to Stanford
1 to Harvard
1 to Cornell
1 to Brown
1 to Middlebury
We are waiting for Yale and UPenn early next week, which together take up around 35% of the class' early applicants (around 30 kids between them)

As I said on a previous post my neighbors daughter at GDS got into columbia ED.

Where are students getting Early Decision (or EA) admissions in your independent school? How are admissions to the Ivy League, Stanford, Amherst, etc.? Is the class of 2015 shaping up so far to be better, on par, or worse than last year's results? or ?