Assuming OPs kid is rising senior, kid has the whole summer to do something productive, EC

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Anonymous wrote:You will have the best results with slacs, if you are willing to go that route. Anything outside Williams is possible. Otherwise, probably looking at 25-50 in national universities.

There is no difference between Williams and other t10 LACs. Stop trolling.

There is in terms of admission from our private. Anything else is doable for top third of class.

That is only relevant to your private.

Probably not. You are just triggered by Williams for some reason. I, on the other hand, have no connections to the school and am a neutral reporter.

It only says your school is not a feeder to Williams. Ours sends 3-4 each year to Williams but often 0 to Pomona.

No we send kids to Williams but they need to be in top 5 percent of class. Also send kids to Pomona but it’s an easier admit.

UMD with good merit & special program
UNC
VT
W&M with Monroe scholarship + OOS scholarship

Rejected from Cornell, Hopkins, GT, Duke

Coming from very large competitive public HS with at least 30+ Ivies, Stanford, Duke, JHU type admits

What's the intended major? If you don't want to specify, at least indicate a range. CS, Engineering, Science, social science or humanities can be very different.

T30 is definitely achievable

Should really look at Naviance data, but I can’t imagine OP being rejected by UF or NYU.

My similar kid was rejected Yale REA. Was accepted to lots of great schools RD, including Cornell, Tufts, Emory, WashU, Northwestern, Hopkins.

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Anonymous wrote:You will have the best results with slacs, if you are willing to go that route. Anything outside Williams is possible. Otherwise, probably looking at 25-50 in national universities.

There is no difference between Williams and other t10 LACs. Stop trolling.

There is in terms of admission from our private. Anything else is doable for top third of class.

That is only relevant to your private.

Probably not. You are just triggered by Williams for some reason. I, on the other hand, have no connections to the school and am a neutral reporter.

It only says your school is not a feeder to Williams. Ours sends 3-4 each year to Williams but often 0 to Pomona.

My DS got into many schools, like Duke, Cornell and Vandy w this.

My kid with lower act ( test optional) got into schools like Wash U and UCLA.

My public magnet school kid with very high stats, but meh ECs, is at UMD for CS with merit.

Major also plays a factor.

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Anonymous wrote:You will have the best results with slacs, if you are willing to go that route. Anything outside Williams is possible. Otherwise, probably looking at 25-50 in national universities.

There is no difference between Williams and other t10 LACs. Stop trolling.

There is in terms of admission from our private. Anything else is doable for top third of class.

That is only relevant to your private.

Probably not. You are just triggered by Williams for some reason. I, on the other hand, have no connections to the school and am a neutral reporter.

Only 60% submit test scores and for some reason Williams chooses to omit the GPA data from their CDS? I suspect that OPs kid would have no problem getting in.

Depends on the private high school. One near us has kids top 15% above 1500 max rigor and good ECs go to T15-20, cornell ED and chicago ED, Hopkins ED. UVA admits readily from the top quarter. Another private that is apparently not perceived as well the student you describe could get Wake or Notre Dame or UVA in state—uva in state admits from the top 15% but not much lower.

How's your budget, OP? I would focus on fit over prestige, but I would think a highly-rejective school could be an option if you can commit to the NPC cost and your student applies ED. Again, though, fit over prestige.

To answer your question, my daughter got in to Carleton and W&M (OOS) with similar stats/ECs, but was WL'd from T20s and rejected from Ivies during RD. Enrolled at W&M and it's been excellent.

Also, I wouldn't overindex on the "we hired the counselor too late" sentiment. Many people don't hire counselors at all, and it's 100% in the counselor's interest to be like "well I could have maybe helped you if only you'd come to me earlier; as it is, (sigh) we'll see what we can do". Under that premise, any success your kid sees is the counselor's doing, and any lack of success is your fault. Don't buy it. There will be lots of great options for your kid, even if you don't work with that (or any) counselor.

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Anonymous wrote:You will have the best results with slacs, if you are willing to go that route. Anything outside Williams is possible. Otherwise, probably looking at 25-50 in national universities.

There is no difference between Williams and other t10 LACs. Stop trolling.

There is in terms of admission from our private. Anything else is doable for top third of class.

That is only relevant to your private.

Probably not. You are just triggered by Williams for some reason. I, on the other hand, have no connections to the school and am a neutral reporter.