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Anonymous wrote:Ivy RD is out. Anyone in? Stats please.

Accepted at Yale, Columbia and Penn. Waitlisted at Princeton and Brown. Rejected at Harvard.

Congratulations! Stats/EC’s /hooks etc please

I say a major hook or hooks to get into 3 ivies.

Not in our case. No hook at all, no donor, no URM, no athlete. Humanities oriented. A lot of theater during high school; languages; volunteering.

Congrats!!!! I have a theory that the kids who get into Ivies get the best teacher recommendations— meaning they know their recommenders outside of class in other contexts and the teacher is able to say the student is one of the best they have ever had and can write a detailed recommendation. I would be curious to know what information you provided to the teacher for him/her to write the recommendation.

Based on my son's experience, I disagree. 1600, NMS, 4.0 uw w/12 APS (all 5s), strong ECs, recs (which we saw) said things like that the student's natural intelligence coupled with his grit were matched by his kindness/generosity/humility. Rejected at 4 Ivies. In at U of Chicago, CMU, and Northwestern.

You saw the recs? So you didn't check the waiver box? That probably hurt your kid.

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Anonymous wrote:Ivy RD is out. Anyone in? Stats please.

Accepted at Yale, Columbia and Penn. Waitlisted at Princeton and Brown. Rejected at Harvard.

Congratulations! Stats/EC’s /hooks etc please

I say a major hook or hooks to get into 3 ivies.

Not in our case. No hook at all, no donor, no URM, no athlete. Humanities oriented. A lot of theater during high school; languages; volunteering.

Congrats!!!! I have a theory that the kids who get into Ivies get the best teacher recommendations— meaning they know their recommenders outside of class in other contexts and the teacher is able to say the student is one of the best they have ever had and can write a detailed recommendation. I would be curious to know what information you provided to the teacher for him/her to write the recommendation.

Based on my son's experience, I disagree. 1600, NMS, 4.0 uw w/12 APS (all 5s), strong ECs, recs (which we saw) said things like that the student's natural intelligence coupled with his grit were matched by his kindness/generosity/humility. Rejected at 4 Ivies. In at U of Chicago, CMU, and Northwestern.

The quality of the students are the same as before. It is just that more of them are applying. Also, they are probably more stressed.

Anonymous wrote:Harvard 3.43%
Columbia 3.66%
Yale 4.62%
Brown 5.4%
Princeton 3.98%
Penn 5.6%
Dartmouth 6.17%
Cornell not announced yet

I’m tired of the discussions about the “lower than conceivable” acceptance rates. When you change the hurdles by eliminating testing requirements and add pandemic you end up with artificially inflated application rates and naturally decreased acceptance rates. The really determinate is the yield of matriculating students from those accepted and overall class demographic profile statistics. There has been much said about the demographic shifts in acceptances. Here’s hoping that translates to shifts in enrollment. So far, it is too soon to say anything for sure.

Harvard 3.43%
Columbia 3.66%
Yale 4.62%
Brown 5.4%
Princeton 3.98%
Penn 5.6%
Dartmouth 6.17%
Cornell not announced yet

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Anonymous wrote:The core classes in the humanities at Columbia - contemporary civilization, literature, art, music, frontiers of science - are probably the best courses taught in the Ivy League for undergraduates. The students will carry this training and experience with them for a lifetime and use it not only in their studies but apply it to many activities and to other things throughout their lives.

The university spends millions in making these the best undergraduate courses available. Top training.

The Columbia boosters are more genteel than the UMD boosters but no less OTT

Really putting that Oxford education to work there, bud.

Look, everybody:

The child needs to work hard, to be genuine and to be kind. Maintain self-standards of integrity within oneself, each day in life.

These are important personal traits colleges look for; and are the most important to an individual's development, anyway.

Many good things will flow naturally from this attitude and conduct, including excellent recommendations, a discipline for hard work and for sticking with things, whether projects or in helping people.

Anonymous wrote:Stop saying passion, its giving me the creeps.

I was thinking the same thing. I thought: I need to get off this thread--between the new boarding school mom who "doubts" her kid will be so lucky again--why do I not believe her?--and the gushing over the kid's passion.

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Anonymous wrote:The core classes in the humanities at Columbia - contemporary civilization, literature, art, music, frontiers of science - are probably the best courses taught in the Ivy League for undergraduates. The students will carry this training and experience with them for a lifetime and use it not only in their studies but apply it to many activities and to other things throughout their lives.

The university spends millions in making these the best undergraduate courses available. Top training.

The Columbia boosters are more genteel than the UMD boosters but no less OTT

Seriously.

I am a lawyer and on a number of occasions when Columbia grads were writing briefs, they told me at the time, and afterward, how their core courses continued to be a wonderful help for depth and breadth to enrich their critical writing and to provide illuminating analogies to mine when arguing points.

And to write complex sentences using words like "enrich" and "illuminating".

That sentence was way way above average for DCUM.

Stop saying passion, its giving me the creeps.