Anonymous
02/11/2025 14:12
Subject: T25 colleges focused heavily on EC rating?
Bump for the person looking
Anonymous
10/20/2024 09:21
Subject: T25 colleges focused heavily on EC rating?
Brown cares about caliber and accolades in ECs.
Anonymous
10/19/2024 21:06
Subject: T25 colleges focused heavily on EC rating?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This is why that "transferring from HYP" post exists. Crazy parents designing the whole life around reading tea leaves of admissions officers instead building a foundation for a good lifem
Actually no.
It’s more like my kid has really weird niche interests and has gotten a ton of national recognition for it. I want to make sure the “reach” schools that kid is targeting would highly value those achievements. Some schools would just treated it as any other extracurricular achievement which it is not.
Learned the hard way with older child that just shooting darts doesn’t work.
There’s strategy involved.
Btw this is something kid developed on their own. No one in rest of family knows anything about it.
It's so private newspapers are reporting about it. The BS people throw here...
Anonymous
10/19/2024 17:56
Subject: T25 colleges focused heavily on EC rating?
Anonymous wrote:This is why that "transferring from HYP" post exists. Crazy parents designing the whole life around reading tea leaves of admissions officers instead building a foundation for a good lifem
Actually no.
It’s more like my kid has really weird niche interests and has gotten a ton of national recognition for it. I want to make sure the “reach” schools that kid is targeting would highly value those achievements. Some schools would just treated it as any other extracurricular achievement which it is not.
Learned the hard way with older child that just shooting darts doesn’t work.
There’s strategy involved.
Btw this is something kid developed on their own. No one in rest of family knows anything about it.
Anonymous
10/19/2024 17:56
Subject: T25 colleges focused heavily on EC rating?
"unique volunteer work for underprivileged population, "
If I had a nickel for every kid who founded a nonprofit to volunteer for an underprivileged population, I'd be full pay for college.
If I had a nickel for every kid who founded a nonprofit to volunteer for an underprivileged population, I'd be full pay for college.
Anonymous
10/19/2024 17:52
Subject: T25 colleges focused heavily on EC rating?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The numbers have to be there first - GPA, rigor, test scores, comparative class rank. But if they cross that threshold, the schools that seem to really value ECs from what I've seen:
Stanford
Vanderbilt
Princeton
Rice
Northwestern
Brown
Duke
I have kids at two of the above. And it was definitely the ECs that helped the most.
Interesting list.
Is it weird that Brown is the only Ivy here?
Every highly selective school strongly values ECs because it's the only way to distinguish the thousands of otherwise identical applicants.
Anonymous
10/19/2024 17:47
Subject: T25 colleges focused heavily on EC rating?
This is why that "transferring from HYP" post exists. Crazy parents designing the whole life around reading tea leaves of admissions officers instead building a foundation for a good lifem
Anonymous
10/19/2024 15:52
Subject: T25 colleges focused heavily on EC rating?
Archery!
Badminton!
Figure Skating!
Horse Polo!
What exactly is Dragon Boat?
These are good ones.
Dragon boat is for the China applicants.
Clearly, you have never done this. It is insanely hard work. And all spots of people try it. But a rowers physique can be a bonus, especially if not an elite rower who is 6’5”. Think of it as a form of rowing for people not in the top 2% for height.
