Anonymous wrote:
Maybe, maybe not. Private schools have a bit of a stigma now, in this anti-elite, inclusive shift. I would save the money as there isn’t a big difference in career outcomes from the bottom performer at private vs. high performer at public…

Um, that’s what the media and there PR engines of the schools would like to have you believe.

In reality, nearly every 40% of each Ivy League class comes from a private. This, despite the fact that there only 10% of all high school students attend private schools.

All those woke idiots celebrating the elimination of SATs and ACTs as requirements? Guess what? Holistic admissions is what was used to exclude Jewish students from the Ivies for decades. Higher achieving Jewish kids were denied admission in favor of more likable WASPs.

Standardized testing was introduced to set a more objective standard for admissions.

Without it, you can expect more privileged kids to be admitted.

Forget Asian American kids. The quota restraining their admissions regardless of accomplishments will remain constant.

+2
We had the same experience.

Anonymous wrote:Your sense is incorrect. The ED admits are massively hooked just like recent years past. The rejections/deferrals are more striking than usual. Brown isn't a hiccup.

+1
The part about Brown made me LOL! DD #1 graduated couple years back and there were a grand total of 2 Stanford/MIT/Ivy admits with no hooks in the early rounds. The other early admits were all legacy/URM AND really impressive applicants in terms of their stats/ECs and some were recruited athletes. Several had multiple hooks. Fortunately some of the early deferrals turned into acceptances in the spring.

Anonymous wrote:Ed to a top slac is different.
You have no idea about the ivy hooks.

Do, please, enlighten us with your wisdom, O ED Prophet!

Ed to a top slac is different.
You have no idea about the ivy hooks.

Anonymous wrote:Your sense is incorrect. The ED admits are massively hooked just like recent years past. The rejections/deferrals are more striking than usual. Brown isn't a hiccup.

PP here, and my kid was an ED admit to a top SLAC, unhooked from one of these schools. The Ivies are about 60% legacy/hooked. Overall, ED admits are around 50% legacy/hooked from our school.

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Anonymous wrote:Colleges still need full-pay students. And they need well-prepared students. Private schools offer both.

+1

It is still amazing to me how some pretty dim, albeit fully pay and private school kids, get into great SLACs like Bates and Colby.

Bates has almost no money. Very small endowment and sits in a city, state, and region that's in decline. I'm sure full pay looks great.

Your sense is incorrect. The ED admits are massively hooked just like recent years past. The rejections/deferrals are more striking than usual. Brown isn't a hiccup.

I think the deleted (properly imo) posts also lost the info that the ED/SCEA/REA for NCS was superb (someone said over 10 in a class of 70), and pretty great for SFS and GDS overall. I don't know about STA. My takeaway is that this year these schools bounced back from last year's anomaly, with a strong mix of Ivies, highly-regarded national universities, and SLACs. There may be some individual college hiccups like Brown but overall a pretty strong showing.

Anonymous wrote:How many new Ivies this year EA/ED?

New Ivies? Are we making up terms now?

How many new Ivies this year EA/ED?

Anonymous wrote:Colleges still need full-pay students. And they need well-prepared students. Private schools offer both.

+1

It is still amazing to me how some pretty dim, albeit fully pay and private school kids, get into great SLACs like Bates and Colby.

Because this is about kids getting into their first choice. Hard to believe, but some kids like New Orleans more than Ithaca.

Why the hell is Tulane included on this list? In the same breath as Harvard or Cornell?

Harvard- boy -double legacy parents;
Yale -girl -legacy
NYU-Boy
Cornell-boy --double legacy parents; one is Wikipedia page level well-known
Tulane -Girl
Harvard -girl --doubl

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Anonymous wrote:+1. It is a silly chant that is done at sporting events and has been for years. Release the pearls.

It's still tacky (and I tossed my pearls years ago).

What is the chant? You will work for me?