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Anonymous wrote:DC - 3.975 GPA unweighted at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (one B). Presidential scholar candidate. 36 ACT single sitting. National science award winner. 1st tier ECs. DC Scholastic writing award winner.

White. Full pay.

Rejected at all Ivy schools to which DC applied.

Ridiculous.

If you are not a URM it’s pretty hard out there.

Maybe your kid should’ve tried being a recruited athlete. Or maybe you should have gone to an Ivy League school. Or you should have made more money to donate to a school. All easier ways of getting into college, but sure let’s blame the URMs again.

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Anonymous wrote:DC - 3.975 GPA unweighted at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (one B). Presidential scholar candidate. 36 ACT single sitting. National science award winner. 1st tier ECs. DC Scholastic writing award winner.

White. Full pay.

Rejected at all Ivy schools to which DC applied.

Ridiculous.

If you are not a URM it’s pretty hard out there.

What, pray tell, are “first tier” extracurriculars?

Anonymous wrote:DC - 3.975 GPA unweighted at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (one B). Presidential scholar candidate. 36 ACT single sitting. National science award winner. 1st tier ECs. DC Scholastic writing award winner.

White. Full pay.

Rejected at all Ivy schools to which DC applied.

Ridiculous.

If you are not a URM it’s pretty hard out there.

Anonymous wrote:DC - 3.975 GPA unweighted at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (one B). Presidential scholar candidate. 36 ACT single sitting. National science award winner. 1st tier ECs. DC Scholastic writing award winner.

White. Full pay.

Rejected at all Ivy schools to which DC applied.

Ridiculous.

If you are not a URM it’s pretty hard out there.

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected for all ivy's for CS. Par for the course. 4.4 GPA (3.9UW), 1550 SAT single sitting. 12 APs- all 4s and 5s. College math through Calc 3 taken with As. Tons of incredible ECs in CS and athletics. Teachers and counselors said they raved. White male. Full pay.

Looks like he will be attending his 14th choice of college. He never felt he "deserved" anything- he is a gentle soul- but having been at the top of the class his entire life and working so hard and spending months on these applications, he is very quiet today, processing it.

Your son had a 14th choice?

Did he really apply to all ivies? I didn’t even realize Yale had a CS program. Hopefully he is going to study CS at a higher ranked school for that major.

Yale has CS ranked at 20th by USNews, Harvard at #16. Not bad at all, given the overall prestige of the schools, if you can get in.
https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings

Awesome! Congrats!

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected for all ivy's for CS. Par for the course. 4.4 GPA (3.9UW), 1550 SAT single sitting. 12 APs- all 4s and 5s. College math through Calc 3 taken with As. Tons of incredible ECs in CS and athletics. Teachers and counselors said they raved. White male. Full pay.

Looks like he will be attending his 14th choice of college. He never felt he "deserved" anything- he is a gentle soul- but having been at the top of the class his entire life and working so hard and spending months on these applications, he is very quiet today, processing it.

Your son had a 14th choice?

Did he really apply to all ivies? I didn’t even realize Yale had a CS program. Hopefully he is going to study CS at a higher ranked school for that major.

Yale has CS ranked at 20th by USNews, Harvard at #16. Not bad at all, given the overall prestige of the schools, if you can get in.
https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings

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Anonymous wrote:I never hear of anyone getting into Princeton. Not here or real life. Who goes to Princeton?

I had an intern from Princeton.

The funny thing was, he was a great intern but nothing extraordinary. He told me his ‘Princeton thing’ was that he played the Oboe or something.

Sometimes, it really is just luck of the draw. Honestly.

Funny, we know one kid at Princeton also in our neighborhood and he wasn't really known as huge intellectual or anything. He also played some weird instrument which apparently Princeton needed.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m in tech. I keep hearing about kids starting tech businesses. I’ve never interacted with any company with people below 22 involved, and I’ve never heard of anyone buying any software from a company with high school kids involved.

A bright, precocious kid writing software would be a nightmare from a security and design perspective.

Lots of ways to define a tech business. Mine does app development for companies (and has own subscription based apps) and also does extensive IT services and repairs. Can fix ANYTHING electronic, recover data, build new computers per specs, repair iphone screens or laptop screens that stop displaying, etc. You'd be surprised at how many people want this stuff done. You might also be surprised at how much these kids know about software security and coding standards. My son won the championship at northrop cyber week long patriot event for reverse engineering vulnerabilities - and he had no formal training. He's not writing enterprise software at this point but it's still a tech business.

NP: awesome kid— will go far OP!

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected for all ivy's for CS. Par for the course. 4.4 GPA (3.9UW), 1550 SAT single sitting. 12 APs- all 4s and 5s. College math through Calc 3 taken with As. Tons of incredible ECs in CS and athletics. Teachers and counselors said they raved. White male. Full pay.

Looks like he will be attending his 14th choice of college. He never felt he "deserved" anything- he is a gentle soul- but having been at the top of the class his entire life and working so hard and spending months on these applications, he is very quiet today, processing it.

Somewhat similar for DD's BFF: 4.0 u/w GPA in most rigorous classes, 1580 SAT, 2 800 SAT subject tests. No APs offered at school (see sundry threads on why rigorous independents do not offer APs). Good ECs, HS athlete/captain. Great writer. Full pay.

WLed @ Cornell, Duke, Harvard. Rejected @ Brown, Northwestern, Penn and Tufts. Most likely UVA or WashU.

Love this kid. Also hard to see when a couple kids in @ a few of the schools are enrolled in less rigorous classes, but do have connections.

Bet these kids wished they actually had fun in high school

Believe me - they have. I don't think either DD or her friend would say that HS has been all work and no play. They are out nearly every Friday/Saturday night. They have a large group of friends, so there is always something going on. BFF has a nice boyfriend. They are not kids who needed to study every minute to nail these stats.

You made good points up until your last snotty in-your-face line. Some of you need to get your own lives.

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected for all ivy's for CS. Par for the course. 4.4 GPA (3.9UW), 1550 SAT single sitting. 12 APs- all 4s and 5s. College math through Calc 3 taken with As. Tons of incredible ECs in CS and athletics. Teachers and counselors said they raved. White male. Full pay.

Looks like he will be attending his 14th choice of college. He never felt he "deserved" anything- he is a gentle soul- but having been at the top of the class his entire life and working so hard and spending months on these applications, he is very quiet today, processing it.

Somewhat similar for DD's BFF: 4.0 u/w GPA in most rigorous classes, 1580 SAT, 2 800 SAT subject tests. No APs offered at school (see sundry threads on why rigorous independents do not offer APs). Good ECs, HS athlete/captain. Great writer. Full pay.

WLed @ Cornell, Duke, Harvard. Rejected @ Brown, Northwestern, Penn and Tufts. Most likely UVA or WashU.

Love this kid. Also hard to see when a couple kids in @ a few of the schools are enrolled in less rigorous classes, but do have connections.

Bet these kids wished they actually had fun in high school

Believe me - they have. I don't think either DD or her friend would say that HS has been all work and no play. They are out nearly every Friday/Saturday night. They have a large group of friends, so there is always something going on. BFF has a nice boyfriend. They are not kids who needed to study every minute to nail these stats.

Anonymous wrote:I’d be interested to know from poster at 14:01 what SLAC your child chose? And others they applied to. I think this is our DC’s plan as well.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m in tech. I keep hearing about kids starting tech businesses. I’ve never interacted with any company with people below 22 involved, and I’ve never heard of anyone buying any software from a company with high school kids involved.

A bright, precocious kid writing software would be a nightmare from a security and design perspective.

Lots of ways to define a tech business. Mine does app development for companies (and has own subscription based apps) and also does extensive IT services and repairs. Can fix ANYTHING electronic, recover data, build new computers per specs, repair iphone screens or laptop screens that stop displaying, etc. You'd be surprised at how many people want this stuff done. You might also be surprised at how much these kids know about software security and coding standards. My son won the championship at northrop cyber week long patriot event for reverse engineering vulnerabilities - and he had no formal training. He's not writing enterprise software at this point but it's still a tech business.