My kid had good (not amazing ) test scores and B+ GPA -- goes to Grinnell college

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Anonymous wrote:I think there is a college for everyone but the ability to pay astronomical costs for private schools may be the challenge.

Or the advantage!

I had a kid in a private expensive college. My eldest got (in my opinion) a better - and more realistic - education at GMU. The private college was all about pushing soft social sciences and shaping social warriors, than educating the kids. GMU was about the coursework.

Good perspective.

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Anonymous wrote:Back to original post...anyone want to share where there kids got in and their general stats?

My kid got into Harvard, Stanford, and Cambridge in the UK, but was rejected at UVA and W&M. Had an 1100 on SAT, but is a great rower (at least in pictures).

Wait, you are forgetting something - wasn’t there an Oxford acceptance too?

Anonymous wrote:Back to original post...anyone want to share where there kids got in and their general stats?

My kid got into Harvard, Stanford, and Cambridge in the UK, but was rejected at UVA and W&M. Had an 1100 on SAT, but is a great rower (at least in pictures).

Back to original post...anyone want to share where there kids got in and their general stats?

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Anonymous wrote:Back to the original question. DD is in regular classes with 3.6 GPA and 33 ACT a rigorous private school in DC. She will go to UW-Madison. She wasnt enamored with SLACs (too small; she felt like by senior year she would be bored).

She is very excited about her choice in the way of an 18 year old about to move 1,000 miles from home. I will miss her.

Congrats to your daughter. As a fellow big10 alum, welcome to the family. All of my friends who went to Madison loved it.

+1. I've never met an unhappy Wisconsin alum.

Thank you both for the comments. My sense is its a nice place to be; there are 3 ppl at work who went there (different departments, ie not hired bc of the school) but all very excited about Wisconsin in a positive but equally nice about your college kind of way.

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Anonymous wrote:Back to the original question. DD is in regular classes with 3.6 GPA and 33 ACT a rigorous private school in DC. She will go to UW-Madison. She wasnt enamored with SLACs (too small; she felt like by senior year she would be bored).

She is very excited about her choice in the way of an 18 year old about to move 1,000 miles from home. I will miss her.

Congrats to your daughter. As a fellow big10 alum, welcome to the family. All of my friends who went to Madison loved it.

+1. I've never met an unhappy Wisconsin alum.

Anonymous wrote:Back to the original question. DD is in regular classes with 3.6 GPA and 33 ACT a rigorous private school in DC. She will go to UW-Madison. She wasnt enamored with SLACs (too small; she felt like by senior year she would be bored).

She is very excited about her choice in the way of an 18 year old about to move 1,000 miles from home. I will miss her.

Congrats to your daughter. As a fellow big10 alum, welcome to the family. All of my friends who went to Madison loved it.

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Anonymous wrote:No way a kid gets into Amherst or Williams and rejected from UVa or WM. Either that poster is a troll or has confused Amherst with UMass Amherst and confused Williams with Hobart & William Smith College.

Amherst’s and Williams’ acceptance rates are 14-15%. UVa’s is 27% and WM is 34%.

You can't compare public university acceptance rates to privates. They serve entirely different populations and have different missions.

Yes I can!!! All 4 of these schools are looking for the best of the best. They are very difficult to get into, in state or out of state. Amherst and Williams are more difficult to get into. The average SAT & ACT scores are higher than UVa and WM. Therefore it makes no sense that a student would get into both Amherst and Williams, but not UVa or WM.

Could be an athlete. Amherst and Williams are small schools and recruits a lot of athletes. 5 athletes from my private alone to Williams.

Anything can happen, but what I think would be more likely is the students would be accepted to UVA and W&M if they were accepted at Williams and Amherst, but might have chosen to attend UVA or W&M largely based on finances.

Anonymous wrote:Back to the original question. DD is in regular classes with 3.6 GPA and 33 ACT a rigorous private school in DC. She will go to UW-Madison. She wasnt enamored with SLACs (too small; she felt like by senior year she would be bored).

She is very excited about her choice in the way of an 18 year old about to move 1,000 miles from home. I will miss her.

Wow! Congrats! I went to a midwestern big 10 (and grew up there) and have trouble relating to the size and intimacy of the SLACs as we tour them (though my DC may very well land at one). My heart is with big state schools. I'm excited for your DD! Madison is a great town!

Back to the original question. DD is in regular classes with 3.6 GPA and 33 ACT a rigorous private school in DC. She will go to UW-Madison. She wasnt enamored with SLACs (too small; she felt like by senior year she would be bored).

She is very excited about her choice in the way of an 18 year old about to move 1,000 miles from home. I will miss her.

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Anonymous wrote:No way a kid gets into Amherst or Williams and rejected from UVa or WM. Either that poster is a troll or has confused Amherst with UMass Amherst and confused Williams with Hobart & William Smith College.

Amherst’s and Williams’ acceptance rates are 14-15%. UVa’s is 27% and WM is 34%.

You can't compare public university acceptance rates to privates. They serve entirely different populations and have different missions.

In your mind. UVA is traditionally a top destination of all private, catholic and public schools in the DMV and probably the Mid Atlantic. Its a very common destination for all and kids applying to LAC and privates are applying to UVA too. Can you compare UCLA or Berkeley admit rates? Y

No one in the college admissions field compares public admissions (selectivity rates) to privates because of the different markets and missions they are serving. California is a beast unto itself as are the Virginia universities. Now that California has limited the number of OOS and international seats to 20% the dynamics are changing again. You can't take those stats out there and apply them to, say, Texas, which has the 10% rule. Each state operates differently and has different missions.

In Virginia, it appears the counselor's input weighs heavily on where students apply. If they don't appear to have the stats, students are not encouraged to apply, which keeps the application numbers down. The bulk of applicants to UVA and W&M and probably other schools are from out of state. These applicants tend to have lower acceptance rates and yield rates (because from a financial perspective, the price is close to private). In California, I believe you can pretty much check boxes to apply to University of California schools, which increases in state applications. California schools can get lots of OOS applicants as well for few spots. I believe UCLA is at about 120K applications per year.

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Anonymous wrote:No way a kid gets into Amherst or Williams and rejected from UVa or WM. Either that poster is a troll or has confused Amherst with UMass Amherst and confused Williams with Hobart & William Smith College.

Amherst’s and Williams’ acceptance rates are 14-15%. UVa’s is 27% and WM is 34%.

You can't compare public university acceptance rates to privates. They serve entirely different populations and have different missions.

In your mind. UVA is traditionally a top destination of all private, catholic and public schools in the DMV and probably the Mid Atlantic. Its a very common destination for all and kids applying to LAC and privates are applying to UVA too. Can you compare UCLA or Berkeley admit rates? Y

No one in the college admissions field compares public admissions (selectivity rates) to privates because of the different markets and missions they are serving. California is a beast unto itself as are the Virginia universities. Now that California has limited the number of OOS and international seats to 20% the dynamics are changing again. You can't take those stats out there and apply them to, say, Texas, which has the 10% rule. Each state operates differently and has different missions.

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Anonymous wrote:No way a kid gets into Amherst or Williams and rejected from UVa or WM. Either that poster is a troll or has confused Amherst with UMass Amherst and confused Williams with Hobart & William Smith College.

Amherst’s and Williams’ acceptance rates are 14-15%. UVa’s is 27% and WM is 34%.

You can't compare public university acceptance rates to privates. They serve entirely different populations and have different missions.

Yes I can!!! All 4 of these schools are looking for the best of the best. They are very difficult to get into, in state or out of state. Amherst and Williams are more difficult to get into. The average SAT & ACT scores are higher than UVa and WM. Therefore it makes no sense that a student would get into both Amherst and Williams, but not UVa or WM.

Could be an athlete. Amherst and Williams are small schools and recruits a lot of athletes. 5 athletes from my private alone to Williams.

I think the troll who took over this thread, unfortunately,made a mistake. It might make sense as kind of a random event to say the person got into Williams or Amherst but not UVA and WM, but not both. Getting into both Williams and Amherst woudl suggest that those highly thought of SLACS were looking for something different, so next time just list one because flukes do occur, but I really don't think there is a student who got into both W & Amh. and was denied at both UVA and W&M especially if the student is a VA resident. So silly, and the person who keeps rolling, give it a rest.