Anonymous
05/04/2026 20:30
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:At our private:
Top 10 percent + high stats + hook (URM, legacy): Yale, Princeton
Top 10 percent + high stats: Duke, UChicago, Brown
Top 20 percent + stats (or legacy or athlete): UPenn, Cornell, MIT, Northwestern
Top 20% good enough for MIT? I find that hard to believe
Athlete.
Anonymous
05/04/2026 20:28
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:At our private:
Top 10 percent + high stats + hook (URM, legacy): Yale, Princeton
Top 10 percent + high stats: Duke, UChicago, Brown
Top 20 percent + stats (or legacy or athlete): UPenn, Cornell, MIT, Northwestern
Top 20% good enough for MIT? I find that hard to believe
Anonymous
05/04/2026 20:27
Subject: Re:Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:Here's my update for 2026 - it seems to be an odd year.
Non-DMV selective private:
Top 10% or high stats + hook: HYPS+ Penn (Wharton)
High stats, missing national level ECs (legacy important though): Northwestern, Penn, Dartmouth, Columbia, Amherst, Pomona
National ECs (stats irrelevant): Vanderbilt, Cornell, Duke
High stats + normal ECs OR some flaw on their record (like a bad grade or two) and hook - Chicago, Rice, Georgetown, WashU
Good (not perfect) stats + no hook - Michigan (ED important; includ deferrals); NYU; Tufts; Emory
Major was extremely important this cycle. Lots of interesting major choices at schools like Columbia, Duke, Rice, WashU.
Appreciate this update. Can posters also mention which schools seem to require ED and which took kids from your school during RD?
Anonymous
05/04/2026 19:38
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
At our private:
Top 10 percent + high stats + hook (URM, legacy): Yale, Princeton
Top 10 percent + high stats: Duke, UChicago, Brown
Top 20 percent + stats (or legacy or athlete): UPenn, Cornell, MIT, Northwestern
Top 10 percent + high stats + hook (URM, legacy): Yale, Princeton
Top 10 percent + high stats: Duke, UChicago, Brown
Top 20 percent + stats (or legacy or athlete): UPenn, Cornell, MIT, Northwestern
Anonymous
05/04/2026 18:46
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
My husband went to a middling state flagship and got courted by Yale, Stanford, UC Berkeley and others for grad school and turned them all down.
Anonymous
05/04/2026 18:46
Subject: Re:Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:Here's my update for 2026 - it seems to be an odd year.
Non-DMV selective private:
Top 10% or high stats + hook: HYPS+ Penn (Wharton)
High stats, missing national level ECs (legacy important though): Northwestern, Penn, Dartmouth, Columbia, Amherst, Pomona
National ECs (stats irrelevant): Vanderbilt, Cornell, Duke
High stats + normal ECs OR some flaw on their record (like a bad grade or two) and hook - Chicago, Rice, Georgetown, WashU
Good (not perfect) stats + no hook - Michigan (ED important; includ deferrals); NYU; Tufts; Emory
Major was extremely important this cycle. Lots of interesting major choices at schools like Columbia, Duke, Rice, WashU.
Similar for our private. Would put Chicago at the “high stats + missing national level ECs” tier and WashU at the “good stats + unhooked” tier.
Anonymous
05/04/2026 18:39
Subject: Re:Which level kid goes to which schools
Here's my update for 2026 - it seems to be an odd year.
Non-DMV selective private:
Top 10% or high stats + hook: HYPS+ Penn (Wharton)
High stats, missing national level ECs (legacy important though): Northwestern, Penn, Dartmouth, Columbia, Amherst, Pomona
National ECs (stats irrelevant): Vanderbilt, Cornell, Duke
High stats + normal ECs OR some flaw on their record (like a bad grade or two) and hook - Chicago, Rice, Georgetown, WashU
Good (not perfect) stats + no hook - Michigan (ED important; includ deferrals); NYU; Tufts; Emory
Major was extremely important this cycle. Lots of interesting major choices at schools like Columbia, Duke, Rice, WashU.
Non-DMV selective private:
Top 10% or high stats + hook: HYPS+ Penn (Wharton)
High stats, missing national level ECs (legacy important though): Northwestern, Penn, Dartmouth, Columbia, Amherst, Pomona
National ECs (stats irrelevant): Vanderbilt, Cornell, Duke
High stats + normal ECs OR some flaw on their record (like a bad grade or two) and hook - Chicago, Rice, Georgetown, WashU
Good (not perfect) stats + no hook - Michigan (ED important; includ deferrals); NYU; Tufts; Emory
Major was extremely important this cycle. Lots of interesting major choices at schools like Columbia, Duke, Rice, WashU.
Anonymous
05/04/2026 18:21
Subject: Re:Which level kid goes to which schools
How did your private fare this cycle?
What % of kids are matriculating to HYPSM? T10? or T20/25?
What % of kids are matriculating to HYPSM? T10? or T20/25?
Anonymous
04/01/2026 18:34
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:Would probably be helpful to list location of private school. It makes a difference.
Midwest privates definitely get kids closer to top 40% of class into Michigan, WashU, Emory etc. This whole exercise is so school specific.
This is categorically false, unless you are in-state for Michigan. Otherwise unhooked kids are near the top of the class.
Anonymous
04/01/2026 14:10
Subject: Which level kid goes to which schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Pretty much no one wants JHU from our private either. 1) it's too close to home 2) it doesn't fit the work-hard, play hard vibe which is fairly common for private school students. Sort of like almost no one applies to MIT either.
My kid got in but turned down for an Ivy.
Really didn’t want to be in Baltimore.
Doubtful
TBH, JHU yield rate is not as high.
Anonymous
04/01/2026 14:09
Subject: Re:Which level kid goes to which schools
Every alum I know refers to school as “Hopkins”, not JHU.
And Georgetown is GU, not GT.
And Georgetown is GU, not GT.