Anonymous
Post 10/09/2024 11:59     Subject: Pls suggest ED strategy
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Which schools would you suggest for them for ED1/EA and ED2?

Candidate 1
Male, humanities kid, top 3 in 3rd tier private. 4.0, 1520. full pay, not URM/legacy/athlete, OK EC plus great summer jobs. Wants a private top 30 or top 10 LACs in the northeast

Candidate 2
Female, STEM kid, top 10 in TT feeder private. 3.8, 1590. full pay, not URM/legacy/athlete, not pay-to-play science research internship but no job. Wants a small-to-midsized STEM/research college in northeast or CA


Candidate 1 should aim for Brown. 2 should ditch Northeast and aim for Duke.


I know someone that sounds identical to 1. Did apply Brown ED, rejected, ended up at Wesleyan in RD.
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2024 00:05     Subject: Pls suggest ED strategy
Anonymous wrote:Which schools would you suggest for them for ED1/EA and ED2?

Candidate 1
Male, humanities kid, top 3 in 3rd tier private. 4.0, 1520. full pay, not URM/legacy/athlete, OK EC plus great summer jobs. Wants a private top 30 or top 10 LACs in the northeast

Candidate 2
Female, STEM kid, top 10 in TT feeder private. 3.8, 1590. full pay, not URM/legacy/athlete, not pay-to-play science research internship but no job. Wants a small-to-midsized STEM/research college in northeast or CA


Candidate 1 should aim for Brown. 2 should ditch Northeast and aim for Duke.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 12:24     Subject: Pls suggest ED strategy
1 Dartmouth
2 Princeton

Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 11:54     Subject: Pls suggest ED strategy
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP, pay attention to the numbers if EDing a small school--get a feeling from your college counselor on how competitive your kid is vs others applying. For example, Pomona as mentioned by someone above, may accept 1000 first years. Roughly half will be your kid's gender. Then subtract out the athletes/first gen, etc. Your kid may be applying for one of 350-400 spots. At a minimum, your kid needs to be the most appealing kid at their own HS applying.

Unless a small school is your number one by a long shot, I would personally ED somewhere larger if you really want an ED acceptance.

With your kid's stats, they will no doubt be accepted EA to some solid schools. Good luck!


Except Pomona has 1700 students total in the entire school, so about 425 per class. Now try your ED calculations with that number. Odds aren’t look so good for the unhooked applicant, right?


I googled and it said 800 freshmen--maybe that was admits and not those in attendance? Point being, odds are very slim.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 11:39     Subject: Pls suggest ED strategy
Anonymous wrote:What a weird way to discuss your own children. They go to different private high schools, one of which you clearly view as far superior to the other. I feel sorry for these poor kids.


Can we evolve past the stone age when women are so quick to assume the worst and judge other women? It's a big leap to assume that those must be OP's own children and she must clearly view one as more superior than the other. She literally just provided stats.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 09:36     Subject: Pls suggest ED strategy
Anonymous wrote:What a weird way to discuss your own children. They go to different private high schools, one of which you clearly view as far superior to the other. I feel sorry for these poor kids.



Of maybe OP is just being objective and realistic. Nothing wrong with that.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 09:24     Subject: Pls suggest ED strategy
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What a weird way to discuss your own children. They go to different private high schools, one of which you clearly view as far superior to the other. I feel sorry for these poor kids.


Where did they say it was their own kids? I viewed this as a hypothetical thought experiment.


NP. Honestly, that’s even weirder.

Regardless, you’re thinking about this backward. The kids should find schools they like based on whatever criteria matter to them, then determine whether they like any of them enough to apply ED.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 09:05     Subject: Pls suggest ED strategy
Anonymous wrote:Which schools would you suggest for them for ED1/EA and ED2?

Candidate 1
Male, humanities kid, top 3 in 3rd tier private. 4.0, 1520. full pay, not URM/legacy/athlete, OK EC plus great summer jobs. Wants a private top 30 or top 10 LACs in the northeast

Candidate 2
Female, STEM kid, top 10 in TT feeder private. 3.8, 1590. full pay, not URM/legacy/athlete, not pay-to-play science research internship but no job. Wants a small-to-midsized STEM/research college in northeast or CA


...and supposedly people don't apply based on USNews Rankings.

Of course Duke and Williams are just so similar to each other.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 08:33     Subject: Pls suggest ED strategy
Anonymous wrote:What a weird way to discuss your own children. They go to different private high schools, one of which you clearly view as far superior to the other. I feel sorry for these poor kids.


Where did they say it was their own kids? I viewed this as a hypothetical thought experiment.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 08:26     Subject: Pls suggest ED strategy
What a weird way to discuss your own children. They go to different private high schools, one of which you clearly view as far superior to the other. I feel sorry for these poor kids.