Anonymous
Post 06/03/2017 22:01     Subject: What prestigious colleges are easiest to get into?
Carnegie Mellon and emory
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2017 22:01     Subject: What prestigious colleges are easiest to get into?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sorry but the words "elite school" and "Penn State" don't belong in the same sentence.


Thank you. I actually laughed right out loud when I saw that. Maybe it's because I'm from Pennsylvania and every idiot in my high school went to Penn State. It was the safety school for the bottom 1/4 of the class.


Did you go to a private? Because even a good public like Hershey high won't have kids below the top 30% of the class get into psu main campus
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2017 21:59     Subject: What prestigious colleges are easiest to get into?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:NYU
Penn State
the all women's schools (e.g., Mt Holyoke, Smith, Bryn Mawr)
Tulane
Syracuse


Since when is Tulane, Penn State and Syracuse prestigious? Did I miss something? Prestigious is top 50, Ivies, etc....these are good schools but more average, no?


Psu is in top 50 or near that iirc?
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2017 21:58     Subject: What prestigious colleges are easiest to get into?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Emory.

It's not easy to get into, but not impossibly difficult for your typical DCUM overachiever.


Can confirm. My son was accepted with a 3.2


What was his hook?


DS actually saw this up on my computer and wrote that reply. GPA was as he said at the end of DS's junior year but it is also a bit disingenuous. GPA was from a prep school that sends kids to Emory each year and the low grades -- a couple of C's -- were from 9th grade. By his senior year he was getting A's in the most rigorous courses offered at the school and his SATs were 1540. So, not your typical 3.2. DS is also full pay and a male, which probably helped at a school like Emory that has more females than males.


Jewish?
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2017 21:37     Subject: What prestigious colleges are easiest to get into?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Emory.

It's not easy to get into, but not impossibly difficult for your typical DCUM overachiever.


Can confirm. My son was accepted with a 3.2


What was his hook?


DS actually saw this up on my computer and wrote that reply. GPA was as he said at the end of DS's junior year but it is also a bit disingenuous. GPA was from a prep school that sends kids to Emory each year and the low grades -- a couple of C's -- were from 9th grade. By his senior year he was getting A's in the most rigorous courses offered at the school and his SATs were 1540. So, not your typical 3.2. DS is also full pay and a male, which probably helped at a school like Emory that has more females than males.
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2017 20:43     Subject: What prestigious colleges are easiest to get into?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Emory.

It's not easy to get into, but not impossibly difficult for your typical DCUM overachiever.


Can confirm. My son was accepted with a 3.2


What was his hook?
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2017 19:02     Subject: What prestigious colleges are easiest to get into?
Anonymous wrote:Emory.

It's not easy to get into, but not impossibly difficult for your typical DCUM overachiever.


Can confirm. My son was accepted with a 3.2
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2017 17:30     Subject: What prestigious colleges are easiest to get into?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wellesley


Slow your roll. Right now the admission rate for the class of 2021 is 21%, a seven point drop.


Smith College. It still leads the way in the # of Fulbright Scholars ahead of schools like Amherst & Williams.
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2017 15:31     Subject: What prestigious colleges are easiest to get into?
Anonymous wrote:Wellesley


Slow your roll. Right now the admission rate for the class of 2021 is 21%, a seven point drop.
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2017 15:24     Subject: What prestigious colleges are easiest to get into?
Emory.

It's not easy to get into, but not impossibly difficult for your typical DCUM overachiever.
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2017 08:34     Subject: What prestigious colleges are easiest to get into?
Wellesley
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2017 08:27     Subject: What prestigious colleges are easiest to get into?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sorry but the words "elite school" and "Penn State" don't belong in the same sentence.


Thank you. I actually laughed right out loud when I saw that. Maybe it's because I'm from Pennsylvania and every idiot in my high school went to Penn State. It was the safety school for the bottom 1/4 of the class.


Are you over 50? things do change...

PSU never was and never will be condsidered elite. It was enjoying a decent run up but with the S scandal, Paterno's fall from grace and now jail time for its President and other top admin for their knowing failure to protect abused children (and instead protecting its football program), PSU will never climb far in status and rank. They do have a decent alum network -- that's not nothing.
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2017 08:19     Subject: What prestigious colleges are easiest to get into?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sorry but the words "elite school" and "Penn State" don't belong in the same sentence.


Thank you. I actually laughed right out loud when I saw that. Maybe it's because I'm from Pennsylvania and every idiot in my high school went to Penn State. It was the safety school for the bottom 1/4 of the class.


Are you over 50? things do change...
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2017 06:50     Subject: Re:What prestigious colleges are easiest to get into?
The SLacs in Minnesota
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2016 09:50     Subject: What prestigious colleges are easiest to get into?
Anonymous wrote:Sorry but the words "elite school" and "Penn State" don't belong in the same sentence.


Thank you. I actually laughed right out loud when I saw that. Maybe it's because I'm from Pennsylvania and every idiot in my high school went to Penn State. It was the safety school for the bottom 1/4 of the class.