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Anonymous wrote:1500+ SAT all As at highly regarded private (school doesn’t offer AP classes but DC took 4 and got 4s and 5s). Varsity sport, leadership in ECs. Legacy - rejected. Waitlisted at all others. No acceptances today. Brutal.

If your kid is wsitlisted at all the other schools they applied to, it seems they weren't realistic.

Is it not realistic to think your kid with above stats should get in somewhere decent/competitive?

"Decent/competitive" to a parent is different than "decent/competitive" for the Class of 2022. Brave new world of admissions. I'm sorry.

Except that there has been a huge shift in the last two cycles. And kids are being caught out by it.

Two reasons

The SFA v Harvard lawsuit — everyone is on notice that every action might get second guessed by a federal judge

The increased political salience of racial and economic justice.

I’m all in for increased educational opportunities for historically disadvantaged groups.

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Anonymous wrote:1500+ SAT all As at highly regarded private (school doesn’t offer AP classes but DC took 4 and got 4s and 5s). Varsity sport, leadership in ECs. Legacy - rejected. Waitlisted at all others. No acceptances today. Brutal.

If your kid is wsitlisted at all the other schools they applied to, it seems they weren't realistic.

How can the private be highly regarded but offer no APs?? Something doesn’t make sense here.

Some of the DC/MD privates do not offer "AP"courses but have created their own curricula to teach the same materials that should be covered by the AP Exams. Because the privates do not pay the College Board for the materials, they cannot call the course "AP ___". As students are not required to take College Board approved/trademarked AP courses to take the AP exams, it's commons for students at the privates to take the AP exams, and they usually do much better on the exams than the public school students who were taught using the official Colllege Board materials. I was told that St. Albans' AP AB Cal exam average is a 4.5; the average is a 2 at one of the MCPS' W schools.

In fact, St. Albans and Landon got into a p--- match with the College Board a couple of years ago. College Board threatened to sue the DC/MD privates because it couldn't believe that the privates' students were doing so well on the exams without having stolen College Board's materials. Essentially, College Board wanted money.

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Anonymous wrote:1500+ SAT all As at highly regarded private (school doesn’t offer AP classes but DC took 4 and got 4s and 5s). Varsity sport, leadership in ECs. Legacy - rejected. Waitlisted at all others. No acceptances today. Brutal.

Similar to mine. 1560 SAT, 3.98UW, 4.85W, top magnet, 5s on APs, NMF, actor who won awards and has worked professionally, capt of sports team, national award, state orch, multiple regional awards, club pres, decent service. Rejected from Williams.

Damn.

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Anonymous wrote:1500+ SAT all As at highly regarded private (school doesn’t offer AP classes but DC took 4 and got 4s and 5s). Varsity sport, leadership in ECs. Legacy - rejected. Waitlisted at all others. No acceptances today. Brutal.

If your kid is wsitlisted at all the other schools they applied to, it seems they weren't realistic.

How can the private be highly regarded but offer no APs?? Something doesn’t make sense here.

Just means they don’t teach to the AP curriculum. It doesn’t mean for example they don’t have an advanced world history class. And you can always register and take the test at another school that is proctoring it.

pomona—deny

Williams is tiny and half the kids there are legacies.

DD's best friend just got into Williams. She's the only one I know that didn't get rejected.

Anonymous wrote:1500+ SAT all As at highly regarded private (school doesn’t offer AP classes but DC took 4 and got 4s and 5s). Varsity sport, leadership in ECs. Legacy - rejected. Waitlisted at all others. No acceptances today. Brutal.

Similar to mine. 1560 SAT, 3.98UW, 4.85W, top magnet, 5s on APs, NMF, actor who won awards and has worked professionally, capt of sports team, national award, state orch, multiple regional awards, club pres, decent service. Rejected from Williams.

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Anonymous wrote:1500+ SAT all As at highly regarded private (school doesn’t offer AP classes but DC took 4 and got 4s and 5s). Varsity sport, leadership in ECs. Legacy - rejected. Waitlisted at all others. No acceptances today. Brutal.

If your kid is wsitlisted at all the other schools they applied to, it seems they weren't realistic.

How can the private be highly regarded but offer no APs?? Something doesn’t make sense here.

many "highly regarded" independents do not offer APs. Teachers do not want to teach to the test and schools believe they offer a richer curriculum than what is offered in AP classes.

APs are a money maker for the College Board. Nothing else.

Within a decade they will likely go the way of SAT subject tests.

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Anonymous wrote:61.4 % of Pomona's admits are domestic students of color

Just 20% white- that's insane. I don't think any other top private school has gone that low. Seems like they heavily value diversity.

It's great that this college does. Others should emulate.

Why? The USA is 58% non-hispanic white and even California is 37%.

Why not? The USA is 42% non-white. California is majority minority.
By 2045 or so, same for the U.S.

Selective colleges are starting to move in the direction of educating a diverse student population.

Good.

Tonight is a bloodbath. For my DD and her friends at a Big 3, its all rejections punctuated with a few waitlists. Terrible.

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Anonymous wrote:1500+ SAT all As at highly regarded private (school doesn’t offer AP classes but DC took 4 and got 4s and 5s). Varsity sport, leadership in ECs. Legacy - rejected. Waitlisted at all others. No acceptances today. Brutal.

If your kid is wsitlisted at all the other schools they applied to, it seems they weren't realistic.

How can the private be highly regarded but offer no APs?? Something doesn’t make sense here.

This is true of all the tops private schools in DC metro area.

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Anonymous wrote:1500+ SAT all As at highly regarded private (school doesn’t offer AP classes but DC took 4 and got 4s and 5s). Varsity sport, leadership in ECs. Legacy - rejected. Waitlisted at all others. No acceptances today. Brutal.

If your kid is wsitlisted at all the other schools they applied to, it seems they weren't realistic.

Is it not realistic to think your kid with above stats should get in somewhere decent/competitive?

"Decent/competitive" to a parent is different than "decent/competitive" for the Class of 2022. Brave new world of admissions. I'm sorry.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1500+ SAT all As at highly regarded private (school doesn’t offer AP classes but DC took 4 and got 4s and 5s). Varsity sport, leadership in ECs. Legacy - rejected. Waitlisted at all others. No acceptances today. Brutal.

If your kid is wsitlisted at all the other schools they applied to, it seems they weren't realistic.

How can the private be highly regarded but offer no APs?? Something doesn’t make sense here.

many "highly regarded" independents do not offer APs. Teachers do not want to teach to the test and schools believe they offer a richer curriculum than what is offered in AP classes.

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Anonymous wrote:61.4 % of Pomona's admits are domestic students of color

Just 20% white- that's insane. I don't think any other top private school has gone that low. Seems like they heavily value diversity.

It's great that this college does. Others should emulate.

Why? The USA is 58% non-hispanic white and even California is 37%.