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Anonymous wrote:GDS with 3 Harvards, 3 Yales an MIT and so many great schools. I think this class did great. And so did Sidwell and NCS and public schools. Let’s celebrate everyone’s kids. Bravo!!

This is exactly what this forum needs to hear. Congratulations to everyone across the board!!

Anonymous wrote:GDS with 3 Harvards, 3 Yales an MIT and so many great schools. I think this class did great. And so did Sidwell and NCS and public schools. Let’s celebrate everyone’s kids. Bravo!!

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Harvard College doesn't count applicants with parents attending only their grad schools as legacies?

That is correct. Legacies are only those children of Harvard college grads. Children of the HLS, HMS, HBS, HKS alums are not considered to be legacies.

Harvard only formally counts undergrads as legacies. That doesn’t mean other things don’t help. And you still have to super strong to get in as a plain old legacy. Whether it is sidwell or gds or anywhere else a lot of these kids are legacy. But since people are having trouble counting the numbers of these IGs straight up, don’t know which kids who picked non-ivies even though got in to ones (I can think of two at GDS - whole full ride thing is pretty good deal), and are getting who is formally legacy and who is not still incorrect, perhaps it’s not worth counting. The key thing to know IMO is that it seems that sidwell has developed a pipeline w uchicago. If one cares enough to compare Ivies between two places probably going to need more family info before bragging.

Any of these private schools can have a pipeline with UChicago if the kids do ED and are full pay. Some have suggested the ED rate is about 30 percent. They also have a scheme for kids who attend summer sessions that allows them to be notified even before regular early decision. It's essentially a pay to play model, though the candidates of course need to be qualified. All this to say that UChicago has some easier paths to entry than some other schools so it can be a very smart strategy for those looking to attend a top school from a top private.

False. The Dean of Admissions told us it was in the 15% to 18% range.

That is still really good! Better than getting into my private 🤣 did they mention if EA was about the same? Or what RD from your private was for comparison?

Different poster, but there’s no way EA is as high as ED. Some people are asked if they want to switch their EA application to ED for UChicago and then got in once they switched. This was in a recent WSJ article.

I read that article and maybe I’m just sour, but I hated the phrasing of that part. The article made it seem like switching the EA application to ED2 was an auto-admit; both of my kids did that for UChicago and were rejected. And yes, they went to a top private school. All was well in the end but it left a bad taste in my mouth.

Ewwww that is kinda gross on the AO part force you to decide on us and then pass...

I was more so angry at how the article framed it. Like, WSJ made it seem as if switching to ED2 was an auto-admit, when we know that’s not the case.

I mean, if they are asking you to switch from EA to ED that should be a "we will commit to you if you commit to us" if they are going to defer just defer. Why play on the heart stings of kids who are already under a lot of pressure and have their future tied to these things. It's just cruell.

UChicago ED goes to reject (rather than defer). That gives a lot of clarity about next steps.

So I guess my kid who was deferred and rejected from UChicago ED doesn’t exist?

🤣 no they are just slightly better than pp's kid 😂

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Harvard College doesn't count applicants with parents attending only their grad schools as legacies?

That is correct. Legacies are only those children of Harvard college grads. Children of the HLS, HMS, HBS, HKS alums are not considered to be legacies.

Harvard only formally counts undergrads as legacies. That doesn’t mean other things don’t help. And you still have to super strong to get in as a plain old legacy. Whether it is sidwell or gds or anywhere else a lot of these kids are legacy. But since people are having trouble counting the numbers of these IGs straight up, don’t know which kids who picked non-ivies even though got in to ones (I can think of two at GDS - whole full ride thing is pretty good deal), and are getting who is formally legacy and who is not still incorrect, perhaps it’s not worth counting. The key thing to know IMO is that it seems that sidwell has developed a pipeline w uchicago. If one cares enough to compare Ivies between two places probably going to need more family info before bragging.

Any of these private schools can have a pipeline with UChicago if the kids do ED and are full pay. Some have suggested the ED rate is about 30 percent. They also have a scheme for kids who attend summer sessions that allows them to be notified even before regular early decision. It's essentially a pay to play model, though the candidates of course need to be qualified. All this to say that UChicago has some easier paths to entry than some other schools so it can be a very smart strategy for those looking to attend a top school from a top private.

False. The Dean of Admissions told us it was in the 15% to 18% range.

That is still really good! Better than getting into my private 🤣 did they mention if EA was about the same? Or what RD from your private was for comparison?

Different poster, but there’s no way EA is as high as ED. Some people are asked if they want to switch their EA application to ED for UChicago and then got in once they switched. This was in a recent WSJ article.

I read that article and maybe I’m just sour, but I hated the phrasing of that part. The article made it seem like switching the EA application to ED2 was an auto-admit; both of my kids did that for UChicago and were rejected. And yes, they went to a top private school. All was well in the end but it left a bad taste in my mouth.

Ewwww that is kinda gross on the AO part force you to decide on us and then pass...

I was more so angry at how the article framed it. Like, WSJ made it seem as if switching to ED2 was an auto-admit, when we know that’s not the case.

I mean, if they are asking you to switch from EA to ED that should be a "we will commit to you if you commit to us" if they are going to defer just defer. Why play on the heart stings of kids who are already under a lot of pressure and have their future tied to these things. It's just cruell.

UChicago ED goes to reject (rather than defer). That gives a lot of clarity about next steps.

So I guess my kid who was deferred and rejected from UChicago ED doesn’t exist?

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Harvard College doesn't count applicants with parents attending only their grad schools as legacies?

That is correct. Legacies are only those children of Harvard college grads. Children of the HLS, HMS, HBS, HKS alums are not considered to be legacies.

Harvard only formally counts undergrads as legacies. That doesn’t mean other things don’t help. And you still have to super strong to get in as a plain old legacy. Whether it is sidwell or gds or anywhere else a lot of these kids are legacy. But since people are having trouble counting the numbers of these IGs straight up, don’t know which kids who picked non-ivies even though got in to ones (I can think of two at GDS - whole full ride thing is pretty good deal), and are getting who is formally legacy and who is not still incorrect, perhaps it’s not worth counting. The key thing to know IMO is that it seems that sidwell has developed a pipeline w uchicago. If one cares enough to compare Ivies between two places probably going to need more family info before bragging.

Any of these private schools can have a pipeline with UChicago if the kids do ED and are full pay. Some have suggested the ED rate is about 30 percent. They also have a scheme for kids who attend summer sessions that allows them to be notified even before regular early decision. It's essentially a pay to play model, though the candidates of course need to be qualified. All this to say that UChicago has some easier paths to entry than some other schools so it can be a very smart strategy for those looking to attend a top school from a top private.

False. The Dean of Admissions told us it was in the 15% to 18% range.

That is still really good! Better than getting into my private 🤣 did they mention if EA was about the same? Or what RD from your private was for comparison?

Different poster, but there’s no way EA is as high as ED. Some people are asked if they want to switch their EA application to ED for UChicago and then got in once they switched. This was in a recent WSJ article.

I read that article and maybe I’m just sour, but I hated the phrasing of that part. The article made it seem like switching the EA application to ED2 was an auto-admit; both of my kids did that for UChicago and were rejected. And yes, they went to a top private school. All was well in the end but it left a bad taste in my mouth.

Ewwww that is kinda gross on the AO part force you to decide on us and then pass...

I was more so angry at how the article framed it. Like, WSJ made it seem as if switching to ED2 was an auto-admit, when we know that’s not the case.

I mean, if they are asking you to switch from EA to ED that should be a "we will commit to you if you commit to us" if they are going to defer just defer. Why play on the heart stings of kids who are already under a lot of pressure and have their future tied to these things. It's just cruell.

UChicago ED goes to reject (rather than defer). That gives a lot of clarity about next steps.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Harvard College doesn't count applicants with parents attending only their grad schools as legacies?

That is correct. Legacies are only those children of Harvard college grads. Children of the HLS, HMS, HBS, HKS alums are not considered to be legacies.

Harvard only formally counts undergrads as legacies. That doesn’t mean other things don’t help. And you still have to super strong to get in as a plain old legacy. Whether it is sidwell or gds or anywhere else a lot of these kids are legacy. But since people are having trouble counting the numbers of these IGs straight up, don’t know which kids who picked non-ivies even though got in to ones (I can think of two at GDS - whole full ride thing is pretty good deal), and are getting who is formally legacy and who is not still incorrect, perhaps it’s not worth counting. The key thing to know IMO is that it seems that sidwell has developed a pipeline w uchicago. If one cares enough to compare Ivies between two places probably going to need more family info before bragging.

Any of these private schools can have a pipeline with UChicago if the kids do ED and are full pay. Some have suggested the ED rate is about 30 percent. They also have a scheme for kids who attend summer sessions that allows them to be notified even before regular early decision. It's essentially a pay to play model, though the candidates of course need to be qualified. All this to say that UChicago has some easier paths to entry than some other schools so it can be a very smart strategy for those looking to attend a top school from a top private.

False. The Dean of Admissions told us it was in the 15% to 18% range.

That is still really good! Better than getting into my private 🤣 did they mention if EA was about the same? Or what RD from your private was for comparison?

Different poster, but there’s no way EA is as high as ED. Some people are asked if they want to switch their EA application to ED for UChicago and then got in once they switched. This was in a recent WSJ article.

I read that article and maybe I’m just sour, but I hated the phrasing of that part. The article made it seem like switching the EA application to ED2 was an auto-admit; both of my kids did that for UChicago and were rejected. And yes, they went to a top private school. All was well in the end but it left a bad taste in my mouth.

Ewwww that is kinda gross on the AO part force you to decide on us and then pass...

I was more so angry at how the article framed it. Like, WSJ made it seem as if switching to ED2 was an auto-admit, when we know that’s not the case.

I mean, if they are asking you to switch from EA to ED that should be a "we will commit to you if you commit to us" if they are going to defer just defer. Why play on the heart stings of kids who are already under a lot of pressure and have their future tied to these things. It's just cruell.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Harvard College doesn't count applicants with parents attending only their grad schools as legacies?

That is correct. Legacies are only those children of Harvard college grads. Children of the HLS, HMS, HBS, HKS alums are not considered to be legacies.

Harvard only formally counts undergrads as legacies. That doesn’t mean other things don’t help. And you still have to super strong to get in as a plain old legacy. Whether it is sidwell or gds or anywhere else a lot of these kids are legacy. But since people are having trouble counting the numbers of these IGs straight up, don’t know which kids who picked non-ivies even though got in to ones (I can think of two at GDS - whole full ride thing is pretty good deal), and are getting who is formally legacy and who is not still incorrect, perhaps it’s not worth counting. The key thing to know IMO is that it seems that sidwell has developed a pipeline w uchicago. If one cares enough to compare Ivies between two places probably going to need more family info before bragging.

Any of these private schools can have a pipeline with UChicago if the kids do ED and are full pay. Some have suggested the ED rate is about 30 percent. They also have a scheme for kids who attend summer sessions that allows them to be notified even before regular early decision. It's essentially a pay to play model, though the candidates of course need to be qualified. All this to say that UChicago has some easier paths to entry than some other schools so it can be a very smart strategy for those looking to attend a top school from a top private.

False. The Dean of Admissions told us it was in the 15% to 18% range.

That is still really good! Better than getting into my private 🤣 did they mention if EA was about the same? Or what RD from your private was for comparison?

Different poster, but there’s no way EA is as high as ED. Some people are asked if they want to switch their EA application to ED for UChicago and then got in once they switched. This was in a recent WSJ article.

I read that article and maybe I’m just sour, but I hated the phrasing of that part. The article made it seem like switching the EA application to ED2 was an auto-admit; both of my kids did that for UChicago and were rejected. And yes, they went to a top private school. All was well in the end but it left a bad taste in my mouth.

Ewwww that is kinda gross on the AO part force you to decide on us and then pass...

I was more so angry at how the article framed it. Like, WSJ made it seem as if switching to ED2 was an auto-admit, when we know that’s not the case.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Harvard College doesn't count applicants with parents attending only their grad schools as legacies?

That is correct. Legacies are only those children of Harvard college grads. Children of the HLS, HMS, HBS, HKS alums are not considered to be legacies.

Harvard only formally counts undergrads as legacies. That doesn’t mean other things don’t help. And you still have to super strong to get in as a plain old legacy. Whether it is sidwell or gds or anywhere else a lot of these kids are legacy. But since people are having trouble counting the numbers of these IGs straight up, don’t know which kids who picked non-ivies even though got in to ones (I can think of two at GDS - whole full ride thing is pretty good deal), and are getting who is formally legacy and who is not still incorrect, perhaps it’s not worth counting. The key thing to know IMO is that it seems that sidwell has developed a pipeline w uchicago. If one cares enough to compare Ivies between two places probably going to need more family info before bragging.

Any of these private schools can have a pipeline with UChicago if the kids do ED and are full pay. Some have suggested the ED rate is about 30 percent. They also have a scheme for kids who attend summer sessions that allows them to be notified even before regular early decision. It's essentially a pay to play model, though the candidates of course need to be qualified. All this to say that UChicago has some easier paths to entry than some other schools so it can be a very smart strategy for those looking to attend a top school from a top private.

False. The Dean of Admissions told us it was in the 15% to 18% range.

That is still really good! Better than getting into my private 🤣 did they mention if EA was about the same? Or what RD from your private was for comparison?

Different poster, but there’s no way EA is as high as ED. Some people are asked if they want to switch their EA application to ED for UChicago and then got in once they switched. This was in a recent WSJ article.

I read that article and maybe I’m just sour, but I hated the phrasing of that part. The article made it seem like switching the EA application to ED2 was an auto-admit; both of my kids did that for UChicago and were rejected. And yes, they went to a top private school. All was well in the end but it left a bad taste in my mouth.

Ewwww that is kinda gross on the AO part force you to decide on us and then pass...

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Harvard College doesn't count applicants with parents attending only their grad schools as legacies?

That is correct. Legacies are only those children of Harvard college grads. Children of the HLS, HMS, HBS, HKS alums are not considered to be legacies.

Harvard only formally counts undergrads as legacies. That doesn’t mean other things don’t help. And you still have to super strong to get in as a plain old legacy. Whether it is sidwell or gds or anywhere else a lot of these kids are legacy. But since people are having trouble counting the numbers of these IGs straight up, don’t know which kids who picked non-ivies even though got in to ones (I can think of two at GDS - whole full ride thing is pretty good deal), and are getting who is formally legacy and who is not still incorrect, perhaps it’s not worth counting. The key thing to know IMO is that it seems that sidwell has developed a pipeline w uchicago. If one cares enough to compare Ivies between two places probably going to need more family info before bragging.

Any of these private schools can have a pipeline with UChicago if the kids do ED and are full pay. Some have suggested the ED rate is about 30 percent. They also have a scheme for kids who attend summer sessions that allows them to be notified even before regular early decision. It's essentially a pay to play model, though the candidates of course need to be qualified. All this to say that UChicago has some easier paths to entry than some other schools so it can be a very smart strategy for those looking to attend a top school from a top private.

False. The Dean of Admissions told us it was in the 15% to 18% range.

That is still really good! Better than getting into my private 🤣 did they mention if EA was about the same? Or what RD from your private was for comparison?

Different poster, but there’s no way EA is as high as ED. Some people are asked if they want to switch their EA application to ED for UChicago and then got in once they switched. This was in a recent WSJ article.

I read that article and maybe I’m just sour, but I hated the phrasing of that part. The article made it seem like switching the EA application to ED2 was an auto-admit; both of my kids did that for UChicago and were rejected. And yes, they went to a top private school. All was well in the end but it left a bad taste in my mouth.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Harvard College doesn't count applicants with parents attending only their grad schools as legacies?

That is correct. Legacies are only those children of Harvard college grads. Children of the HLS, HMS, HBS, HKS alums are not considered to be legacies.

Harvard only formally counts undergrads as legacies. That doesn’t mean other things don’t help. And you still have to super strong to get in as a plain old legacy. Whether it is sidwell or gds or anywhere else a lot of these kids are legacy. But since people are having trouble counting the numbers of these IGs straight up, don’t know which kids who picked non-ivies even though got in to ones (I can think of two at GDS - whole full ride thing is pretty good deal), and are getting who is formally legacy and who is not still incorrect, perhaps it’s not worth counting. The key thing to know IMO is that it seems that sidwell has developed a pipeline w uchicago. If one cares enough to compare Ivies between two places probably going to need more family info before bragging.

Any of these private schools can have a pipeline with UChicago if the kids do ED and are full pay. Some have suggested the ED rate is about 30 percent. They also have a scheme for kids who attend summer sessions that allows them to be notified even before regular early decision. It's essentially a pay to play model, though the candidates of course need to be qualified. All this to say that UChicago has some easier paths to entry than some other schools so it can be a very smart strategy for those looking to attend a top school from a top private.

False. The Dean of Admissions told us it was in the 15% to 18% range.

That is still really good! Better than getting into my private 🤣 did they mention if EA was about the same? Or what RD from your private was for comparison?

Different poster, but there’s no way EA is as high as ED. Some people are asked if they want to switch their EA application to ED for UChicago and then got in once they switched. This was in a recent WSJ article.