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Anonymous wrote:UVA, Emory, Vassar, Barnard, Hamilton, Middlebury, Michigan, Georgetown, Chapel Hill. Ours is a small, rigorous, well known top private (not DC) where the top 40% of the class goes to Ivy, so the middle of the pack kids still go to very good schools and excel there.
Good luck to your DC. It’s a very stressful process, but all works out well at the end.

How is this remotely helpful to op?

Well, OP merely said non-big 3, OP didn't specify where they are located. Also, it's valuable to see a diverse array of results from different background. It's not one dimensional.

Non big 3 dc, why are you even here?

Lots of non-DC here. Jeff loves the national traffic on this board….
A lot of the parents here came via other places where this board was referenced.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA, Emory, Vassar, Barnard, Hamilton, Middlebury, Michigan, Georgetown, Chapel Hill. Ours is a small, rigorous, well known top private (not DC) where the top 40% of the class goes to Ivy, so the middle of the pack kids still go to very good schools and excel there.
Good luck to your DC. It’s a very stressful process, but all works out well at the end.

How is this remotely helpful to op?

Well, OP merely said non-big 3, OP didn't specify where they are located. Also, it's valuable to see a diverse array of results from different background. It's not one dimensional.

Non big 3 dc, why are you even here?

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Anonymous wrote:UVA, Emory, Vassar, Barnard, Hamilton, Middlebury, Michigan, Georgetown, Chapel Hill. Ours is a small, rigorous, well known top private (not DC) where the top 40% of the class goes to Ivy, so the middle of the pack kids still go to very good schools and excel there.
Good luck to your DC. It’s a very stressful process, but all works out well at the end.

This sounds like amazing outcomes!!

This sounds like the 2nd quintile at my small private high school- 30+ years ago. At my kid’s similar private high school now, all of those schools are reaches even for the top students.

Anonymous wrote:UVA, Emory, Vassar, Barnard, Hamilton, Middlebury, Michigan, Georgetown, Chapel Hill. Ours is a small, rigorous, well known top private (not DC) where the top 40% of the class goes to Ivy, so the middle of the pack kids still go to very good schools and excel there.
Good luck to your DC. It’s a very stressful process, but all works out well at the end.

Are you are Brearley? 40% to the Ivies is literally not even Andover, Harvard Westlake or Dalton.
Sidwell and STA max out under 20%.

The question is, why are you posting stats from the school with the best college stats in the nation on this thread?

Anonymous wrote:UVA, Emory, Vassar, Barnard, Hamilton, Middlebury, Michigan, Georgetown, Chapel Hill. Ours is a small, rigorous, well known top private (not DC) where the top 40% of the class goes to Ivy, so the middle of the pack kids still go to very good schools and excel there.
Good luck to your DC. It’s a very stressful process, but all works out well at the end.

This sounds like amazing outcomes!!

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Anonymous wrote:UVA, Emory, Vassar, Barnard, Hamilton, Middlebury, Michigan, Georgetown, Chapel Hill. Ours is a small, rigorous, well known top private (not DC) where the top 40% of the class goes to Ivy, so the middle of the pack kids still go to very good schools and excel there.
Good luck to your DC. It’s a very stressful process, but all works out well at the end.

How is this remotely helpful to op?

Well, OP merely said non-big 3, OP didn't specify where they are located. Also, it's valuable to see a diverse array of results from different background. It's not one dimensional.

Northeastern.

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Anonymous wrote:At our private, without Calculus it would be:

Tulane (ED)
Wake (ED) - non stem or business major
SMU - non business
U-Miami (ED)
Santa Clara
Lehigh (ED)

This is a good list. I’d add Bucknell and Syracuse, maybe ED at both. And Clemson.

My kid from a non-elite private, close the the middle of the class, no calc (precalc). No APs (school does not offer them), a few honors classes (you have to test into honors at the school) was waitlisted at Clemson.

+1 Our kid from non-elite HS w 3.9 uw, APs, strong ECs and 1430 SAT waitlisted from Clemson but got into top 10 business school so that’s where they are headed. One advice I would give is to remove “safety” schools from the vocabulary and replace with “likely”. A lot of the safeties from years ago are tough to get in nowadays. The common app is the worst thing to happen to kids since colleges receive way too many applications making them more competitive and driving admissions rates down to ridiculous levels. Also at most test optional schools, unless your kids SAT/ACT is in the median range (higher for business/Cs/engineering) most don’t submit which pushes the reported SAT’s even higher. It’s ridiculous that UMD’s median is 1450 and just a few years ago was in the 1300’s. Our DS rejected from UMD. I would look at Naviance and see what your schools scatterplot reveals for your students stats-ours was spot on for most schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Again, the prolific BC basher posts early and often and drives any thread to a "discussion" (with himself) interjecting falsehoods about BC over and over and over. He's so off topic his posts have been deleted by admin. He also promised to shut up, continues to sh$t post, so he's a liar too.

I promised to shut up so long as the school wasn’t compared with top notch schools like Duke and Dartmouth

Then you’re a liar too.

Anonymous wrote:UVA, Emory, Vassar, Barnard, Hamilton, Middlebury, Michigan, Georgetown, Chapel Hill. Ours is a small, rigorous, well known top private (not DC) where the top 40% of the class goes to Ivy, so the middle of the pack kids still go to very good schools and excel there.
Good luck to your DC. It’s a very stressful process, but all works out well at the end.

How is this remotely helpful to op?

Anonymous wrote:I would be thrilled if my top stats kid at a solid private that sends many kids to schools popular with DCUM got into Kenyon or Oberlin or William and Mary. That’s the problem- many people don’t appreciate the entire range of great schools out there. They’re fixated on T-25 and the current “hot” schools.

+100

UVA, Emory, Vassar, Barnard, Hamilton, Middlebury, Michigan, Georgetown, Chapel Hill. Ours is a small, rigorous, well known top private (not DC) where the top 40% of the class goes to Ivy, so the middle of the pack kids still go to very good schools and excel there.
Good luck to your DC. It’s a very stressful process, but all works out well at the end.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, I wasn't expecting schools like these. Those schools are a totally different level of selectivity than the ones I've been taking my kid to see. It wouldn't have occured to me that they were options.

-- OP

I don’t know what private that person’s kids attend, but neither BC nor Tufts would be where students at even Sidwell or GDS wind up who have not taken calculus and have SAT scores below 1500.

I agree that this poster is wildly optimistic. My DC has a 3.9/35 from a Big3 and was just waitlisted at BC last week. His friend with a 3.8+ was waitlisted at Tufts. ED at these schools is quite a bit easier but not at the 50%tile if there are no hooks and this is a Big3 school and these kids had calculus.

Take a look at Sidwell matriculation: https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation
There are only very few schools ranked lower than Rochester. You big fat liar.

At least 60% of the schools on that list are ranked lower than Rochester.

The bold ones indicate multiple (e.g., 10, 20) matriculate to said college. Single matriculation to Mercyhurst University can be ignored, they don't count much on weight.

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Anonymous wrote:At our private, without Calculus it would be:

Tulane (ED)
Wake (ED) - non stem or business major
SMU - non business
U-Miami (ED)
Santa Clara
Lehigh (ED)

My kid maxed out at Pre-Calc and got in an Ivy. Unhooked….

And yet they said that’s impossible at BC and you’d need to be a legacy.

No one said it was impossible, just that it was unlikely.

“You can definitely get into BC unhooked without calc and a SAT below 1500. It’s not that competitive.”

“Acceptance rate was 16 percent LAST cycle. This might be possible for a legacy but not unhooked.”

They said this scenario was impossible. Don’t backtrack the obsession with BC being prestigious.

ED acceptance rate 30%.

Yea but pre-calc and a 1490 would never get you there unless you have a hook!

BC does consider legacy, but it weighs very little if you are not also a donor. It omits its consideration of legacy from CDS.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, I wasn't expecting schools like these. Those schools are a totally different level of selectivity than the ones I've been taking my kid to see. It wouldn't have occured to me that they were options.

-- OP

I don’t know what private that person’s kids attend, but neither BC nor Tufts would be where students at even Sidwell or GDS wind up who have not taken calculus and have SAT scores below 1500.

I agree that this poster is wildly optimistic. My DC has a 3.9/35 from a Big3 and was just waitlisted at BC last week. His friend with a 3.8+ was waitlisted at Tufts. ED at these schools is quite a bit easier but not at the 50%tile if there are no hooks and this is a Big3 school and these kids had calculus.

Take a look at Sidwell matriculation: https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation
There are only very few schools ranked lower than Rochester. You big fat liar.

At least 60% of the schools on that list are ranked lower than Rochester.