OP - there are schools you can still apply to. Talk to your college counselor. https://toptieradmissions.com/colleges-still-accepting-applications-late-deadlines-for-the-class-of-2030/

Anonymous wrote:Kid from a good private - top 30% of class with 1550 SAT and all 5's on APs. Solid EC's with leadership and community service, but no hook other than private school. Applied humanities - rejected ED to Ivy, deferred Santa Clara, USC and UMich. In at Pitt with merit and honors college. Waiting on a bunch more but feeling rather hopeless right now. Essays were excellent. Any thoughts?

This was our kid, similar, we are full pay, ACT 35, deferred at MI, rejected from UNC, WL at Vanderbilt, and more, who ended up at Pitt. All I can tell you is, she's happy there. Has made good friends, doing well in school, had excellent internships, etc. Counselor said the schools all thought they were her safetys

Anonymous wrote:Kid from a good private - top 30% of class with 1550 SAT and all 5's on APs. Solid EC's with leadership and community service, but no hook other than private school. Applied humanities - rejected ED to Ivy, deferred Santa Clara, USC and UMich. In at Pitt with merit and honors college. Waiting on a bunch more but feeling rather hopeless right now. Essays were excellent. Any thoughts?

At our private a lot of ED acceptances this year were kids that were hooked. Usually it is more balanced. I expect that more acceptances will be forthcoming in RD. They will have to if this year's exmissions are to resemble those of prior years. They have been generally consistent year to year, so I'm betting on this. Not sure why this is happening, but keeping my fingers crossed for your DC.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s her targets? Seems like she doesn’t have any.

Santa Clara should have been a low target/high safety, no?

Yes SCU should have been a safety.

Yes DI is very important to
SCU.

She is top 30%.

Anonymous wrote:What’s her targets? Seems like she doesn’t have any.

Santa Clara should have been a low target/high safety, no?

Show a lot of DI for Santa Clara if you can.

They commonly reject high SAT kids they think are not likely to yield.

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Anonymous wrote:Kid from a good private - top 30% of class with 1550 SAT and all 5's on APs. Solid EC's with leadership and community service, but no hook other than private school. Applied humanities - rejected ED to Ivy, deferred Santa Clara, USC and UMich. In at Pitt with merit and honors college. Waiting on a bunch more but feeling rather hopeless right now. Essays were excellent. Any thoughts?

Top 30% not good enough for Ivies; bad idea to ED.

+1, Not to slam the student who likely will get some acceptances in RD in addition to Pitt but the CDS data for all of the Ivies and similar schools shows that 90% of their admits are in the top 10% of their class. . .

Anonymous wrote:Kid from a good private - top 30% of class with 1550 SAT and all 5's on APs. Solid EC's with leadership and community service, but no hook other than private school. Applied humanities - rejected ED to Ivy, deferred Santa Clara, USC and UMich. In at Pitt with merit and honors college. Waiting on a bunch more but feeling rather hopeless right now. Essays were excellent. Any thoughts?

Top 30% not good enough for Ivies; bad idea to ED.

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Anonymous wrote:Presumably waiting for April admissions?

It may be you didn't play your hands carefully enough. If full pay and coming from an excellent private, I'd have targeted the better LACs along with Chicago for early admission. Ivies are one in a thousand shot without a hook. USC is a different beast. Michigan is competitive out of state.

I don’t think ED LACs is a good idea. Chicago yes.

Or Midd, Colby; definitely not WASPB

What’s her targets? Seems like she doesn’t have any.

Anonymous wrote:OP with girl from private. She has a 3.7 unweighted as of end of junior year. Almost nobody has over a 3.8. No grade inflation really.

Curious why you initially said she is in top third of class. Is she or isn’t she?

Hang in there! This process is super stressful.. last year, our private had a lot of great acceptances in RD and also great waitlist movement into top schools later in the process. I agree with pp who mentioned writing great loci to deferred schools, especially umichigan. Wishing your student the very best! Good luck!!!

Anonymous wrote:OP with girl from private. She has a 3.7 unweighted as of end of junior year. Almost nobody has over a 3.8. No grade inflation really.

Promising. How many RD reach are pending?