Anonymous
06/13/2025 14:21
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:At DC’s private school, over the past couple of years:
Top 10 percent: Harvard, Yale, Duke, Chicago, etc.
Next decile: Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Chicago, etc.
Next decile: Michigan, UVA, BC, etc.
Similar except swap Stanford and Chicago and add Northwestern to the 2nd group.
I agree. Chicago is not for top decile but Stanford is. Duke is mainly for connected or rich students at our private.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 13:47
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:At DC’s private school, over the past couple of years:
Top 10 percent: Harvard, Yale, Duke, Chicago, etc.
Next decile: Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Chicago, etc.
Next decile: Michigan, UVA, BC, etc.
Similar except swap Stanford and Chicago and add Northwestern to the 2nd group.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 13:27
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:At our school it is all over the place. Many students choose the school that gives them the best scholarship. The top students often go full ride to lower ranked colleges. Some classmates with lower stats will go to higher ranked schools but with lower merit awards.
At a private high school kids are going for full ride scholarships?
Anonymous
06/13/2025 13:26
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:--Top 10% or high stats + hook: HYPSM+ Wharton
--High stats, missing national level ECs or hook: Duke, Northwestern, Brown, Penn, Chicago
--High stats + normal ECs OR some flaw on their record (like a bad grade or two) - Cornell, Georgetown, JHU, Berkeley, UCLA, Vanderbilt, WashU, Rice, WASP
This is spot on.
Not at our private school- all 8 Ivies, Duke and Hopkins were top 5%. Followed by Georgetown, Notre Dame.
At a small school how many can possibly be in the top 5%? Do you have a massive grade inflation? At our private 40% of the class is going T20, with another 10-15 at those in the T20-T25.
No grade inflation (deflation actual). No GPA published in transcript.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 11:39
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
At our school it is all over the place. Many students choose the school that gives them the best scholarship. The top students often go full ride to lower ranked colleges. Some classmates with lower stats will go to higher ranked schools but with lower merit awards.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 11:32
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:Awful the way the kids are sorted according to “levels” but I guess that’s a reality in the mostly affluent, privileged world of this forum. Most of our kids (including mine) have had a major head start on so many fronts. My imperfect kid is at a lower level T-25 and all I want is for them to be a normal, well-adjusted adult with coping skills.
there's a million toxic ways teens sort themselves and each other that is not being discussed. this is only about resume, which is a pretty bland way to sort kids
Anonymous
06/13/2025 11:17
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:Awful the way the kids are sorted according to “levels” but I guess that’s a reality in the mostly affluent, privileged world of this forum. Most of our kids (including mine) have had a major head start on so many fronts. My imperfect kid is at a lower level T-25 and all I want is for them to be a normal, well-adjusted adult with coping skills.
Well that and FIT. Fit is really important and students in those world don’t really view a big difference. My kid got into Hopkins, UChi, Duke but chose an Ivy (not HPY). He also would have hated MIT. He was at the very top of class unhooked/private HS
Anonymous
06/13/2025 11:14
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:--Top 10% or high stats + hook: HYPSM+ Wharton
--High stats, missing national level ECs or hook: Duke, Northwestern, Brown, Penn, Chicago
--High stats + normal ECs OR some flaw on their record (like a bad grade or two) - Cornell, Georgetown, JHU, Berkeley, UCLA, Vanderbilt, WashU, Rice, WASP
This is spot on.
Not at our private school- all 8 Ivies, Duke and Hopkins were top 5%. Followed by Georgetown, Notre Dame.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 10:54
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Awful the way the kids are sorted according to “levels” but I guess that’s a reality in the mostly affluent, privileged world of this forum. Most of our kids (including mine) have had a major head start on so many fronts. My imperfect kid is at a lower level T-25 and all I want is for them to be a normal, well-adjusted adult with coping skills.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 10:33
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:--Top 10% or high stats + hook: HYPSM+ Wharton
--High stats, missing national level ECs or hook: Duke, Northwestern, Brown, Penn, Chicago
--High stats + normal ECs OR some flaw on their record (like a bad grade or two) - Cornell, Georgetown, JHU, Berkeley, UCLA, Vanderbilt, WashU, Rice, WASP
private NYC and similar but it's a school with grade deflation (and a couple of landmine teachers who can tank GPA if you get stuck with them), so there's a couple different groups
-- Good but not top stats (3.85) + unhooked + known school leadership (ie, elected school president) + HOS LOR: Can be HYP
-- Good but not top stats (3.8) plus academic "story": head of blood drive/certified EMT/summer research program at Princeton/paper on blood cancer. Those kids do well but they start in 9th. not HYSPM or Duke but everything else on the table.
Also, BC apparently took counselor calls from our school during WL period. if you really wanted BC and told your advisor, they could make that happen. (not sure if full pay or not)
None of the NYC private would do blood drive.
It's not happening with those parents.
Well my kids are at a NYC private and there's a blood drive every year. It might be twice a year. Not sure what you mean about parents. Parents are welcome to come in and donate, but it's usually kids (who I think have to be 16) and faculty.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 10:25
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:--Top 10% or high stats + hook: HYPSM+ Wharton
--High stats, missing national level ECs or hook: Duke, Northwestern, Brown, Penn, Chicago
--High stats + normal ECs OR some flaw on their record (like a bad grade or two) - Cornell, Georgetown, JHU, Berkeley, UCLA, Vanderbilt, WashU, Rice, WASP
private NYC and similar but it's a school with grade deflation (and a couple of landmine teachers who can tank GPA if you get stuck with them), so there's a couple different groups
-- Good but not top stats (3.85) + unhooked + known school leadership (ie, elected school president) + HOS LOR: Can be HYP
-- Good but not top stats (3.8) plus academic "story": head of blood drive/certified EMT/summer research program at Princeton/paper on blood cancer. Those kids do well but they start in 9th. not HYSPM or Duke but everything else on the table.
Also, BC apparently took counselor calls from our school during WL period. if you really wanted BC and told your advisor, they could make that happen. (not sure if full pay or not)
None of the NYC private would do blood drive.
It's not happening with those parents.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 10:19
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:--Top 10% or high stats + hook: HYPSM+ Wharton
--High stats, missing national level ECs or hook: Duke, Northwestern, Brown, Penn, Chicago
--High stats + normal ECs OR some flaw on their record (like a bad grade or two) - Cornell, Georgetown, JHU, Berkeley, UCLA, Vanderbilt, WashU, Rice, WASP
private NYC and similar but it's a school with grade deflation (and a couple of landmine teachers who can tank GPA if you get stuck with them), so there's a couple different groups
-- Good but not top stats (3.85) + unhooked + known school leadership (ie, elected school president) + HOS LOR: Can be HYP
-- Good but not top stats (3.8) plus academic "story": head of blood drive/certified EMT/summer research program at Princeton/paper on blood cancer. Those kids do well but they start in 9th. not HYSPM or Duke but everything else on the table.
Also, BC apparently took counselor calls from our school during WL period. if you really wanted BC and told your advisor, they could make that happen. (not sure if full pay or not)
Anonymous
06/13/2025 09:36
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:--Top 10% or high stats + hook: HYPSM+ Wharton
--High stats, missing national level ECs or hook: Duke, Northwestern, Brown, Penn, Chicago
--High stats + normal ECs OR some flaw on their record (like a bad grade or two) - Cornell, Georgetown, JHU, Berkeley, UCLA, Vanderbilt, WashU, Rice, WASP
-- high stats + normal ECs + no $$$$: state flagship with merit
Anonymous
06/13/2025 09:34
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:--Top 10% or high stats + hook: HYPSM+ Wharton
--High stats, missing national level ECs or hook: Duke, Northwestern, Brown, Penn, Chicago
--High stats + normal ECs OR some flaw on their record (like a bad grade or two) - Cornell, Georgetown, JHU, Berkeley, UCLA, Vanderbilt, WashU, Rice, WASP
This is spot on.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 09:32
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Bumping this up for the rising senior private school parents on here - searching for data on admissions.