Anonymous
01/29/2025 11:30
Subject: Competitive schools that were easy to get into for kids in our HS
Anonymous wrote:Our HS published a college report with the number of kids who applied and how many got in and there's some that shocked me.
Colby College, 15 applied, 12 got in!! 80% when national acceptance is 8%
Darthmouth, 50 applied, 10 got in. 20% acceptance
Brown, 20 applied, 6 got in
Do some schools have high schools they just like more than others? This is a large public school.
Is this in one year?
Anonymous
01/29/2025 11:27
Subject: Competitive schools that were easy to get into for kids in our HS
Anonymous wrote:Could be New Trier in Chicago - it’s large enough and rich enough for those numbers
New Trier
Boston Latin
TJ
Stuyvesant
There are a number of competitive public schools in this country.
Anonymous
01/29/2025 11:25
Subject: Competitive schools that were easy to get into for kids in our HS
Anonymous wrote:Could be New Trier in Chicago - it’s large enough and rich enough for those numbers
Not large enough for 50 Dartmouth apps, no. No public is that large.
Anonymous
01/29/2025 11:24
Subject: Competitive schools that were easy to get into for kids in our HS
I think OP is trolling.
Anonymous
01/29/2025 11:23
Subject: Competitive schools that were easy to get into for kids in our HS
Could be New Trier in Chicago - it’s large enough and rich enough for those numbers
Anonymous
01/29/2025 10:41
Subject: Competitive schools that were easy to get into for kids in our HS
OP, I'm guessing it's Whitman or similar. They like your money and your (more liberal) education.
Anonymous
01/29/2025 09:38
Subject: Re:Competitive schools that were easy to get into for kids in our HS
Anonymous wrote:UChicago had a quarter-Billion operating deficit last year.
OMG. I don’t recall it getting a bad grade on the Forbes list, but maybe this came out after? Drexel also in bad shape but not reflected in Forbes financial grades due to timing of disclosure.
Anonymous
01/29/2025 08:27
Subject: Competitive schools that were easy to get into for kids in our HS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Our HS published a college report with the number of kids who applied and how many got in and there's some that shocked me.
Colby College, 15 applied, 12 got in!! 80% when national acceptance is 8%
Darthmouth, 50 applied, 10 got in. 20% acceptance
Brown, 20 applied, 6 got in
Do some schools have high schools they just like more than others? This is a large public school.
This year last year when?
Our school had
22 U Mich
21 Boston college
Acceptances
It’s not that big of a school. I’m thinking it might be the same one
With just those two colleges, that is more students than there are in my kids' Senior class, lol.
Anonymous
01/29/2025 08:27
Subject: Competitive schools that were easy to get into for kids in our HS
Anonymous wrote:This has to be Exeter or St Paul's or some elite prep school that just has nothing to do with everyone else's reality (even though things are totally different than they were fifty years ago!).
OP said it’s a public.
This is very suspect, there are some schools in-state that matriculate a lot to UPenn, Harvard and Cornell.
Dartmouth and Brown in particular are ones that seem to take 0-2 and good chance of one being a recruit.
Anonymous
01/29/2025 08:26
Subject: Competitive schools that were easy to get into for kids in our HS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Our HS published a college report with the number of kids who applied and how many got in and there's some that shocked me.
Colby College, 15 applied, 12 got in!! 80% when national acceptance is 8%
Darthmouth, 50 applied, 10 got in. 20% acceptance
Brown, 20 applied, 6 got in
Do some schools have high schools they just like more than others? This is a large public school.
This year last year when?
Our school had
22 U Mich
21 Boston college
Acceptances
It’s not that big of a school. I’m thinking it might be the same one
yes
Anonymous
01/29/2025 08:24
Subject: Competitive schools that were easy to get into for kids in our HS
OP claims it’s a large public school…but agree it seems inconceivable that Dartmouth would receive so many applications unless maybe it’s a large public Boston-area public.
Anonymous
01/29/2025 07:58
Subject: Competitive schools that were easy to get into for kids in our HS
This has to be Exeter or St Paul's or some elite prep school that just has nothing to do with everyone else's reality (even though things are totally different than they were fifty years ago!).
Anonymous
01/29/2025 01:07
Subject: Competitive schools that were easy to get into for kids in our HS
Anonymous wrote:Links or it didn't happen.
Agreed, didn’t happen.
Anonymous
01/28/2025 22:50
Subject: Competitive schools that were easy to get into for kids in our HS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Our HS published a college report with the number of kids who applied and how many got in and there's some that shocked me.
Colby College, 15 applied, 12 got in!! 80% when national acceptance is 8%
Darthmouth, 50 applied, 10 got in. 20% acceptance
Brown, 20 applied, 6 got in
Do some schools have high schools they just like more than others? This is a large public school.
Colby is practically open enrollment if you apply ED, TO, and full pay. The overall acceptance rate is low in large part due to the UChicago/Tulane/Northeastern style spamming they do to drum up applications in the RD round.
Oof! Seeing U of C on the same list as places like Tulane and Northeastern makes me so sad. It used to be a place associated with exceptional intellectual curiosity … but on DCUM it’s known as a spam factory. I hope that’s not really the case …
I discovered on DCUM that Chicago ED1 has an 80% acceptance rate because they are about to go bankrupt.
Anonymous
01/28/2025 22:42
Subject: Competitive schools that were easy to get into for kids in our HS
Links or it didn't happen.