Anonymous wrote:DC had a 3.4 unweighted at a mid-level DC private. Extra currics ok but nothing special. no hooks: white kid from the burbs. did have a strong arts interest but again, no fancy prizes or anything. Applied only to test-optional SLACs. Got in to Allegheny, Wofford, Furman and Sewanee (with 12k merit aid). Going to Sewanee.

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DC had a 3.4 unweighted at a mid-level DC private. Extra currics ok but nothing special. no hooks: white kid from the burbs. did have a strong arts interest but again, no fancy prizes or anything. Applied only to test-optional SLACs. Got in to Allegheny, Wofford, Furman and Sewanee (with 12k merit aid). Going to Sewanee.

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Anonymous wrote:Given the uncertainty DD spread a wide net

1290 SAT
3.4 uw/3.7 w

Accepted: Towson ($3k merit), College of Charleston ($12.5k), Miami-Ohio ($10k), High Point ($7k), St. Joe's ($17k), Pitt, Delaware ($2k), Alabama ($6k), Butler ($16k)

Still waiting: VT, UConn

Deferred: JMU, Elon, Miami

Denied: Tulane, UMD, Clemson

White female in MCPS, undecided major

Accepted at St. Joe's with $15K merit, so down $2K from PP's offer last year and with better scores. Maybe they are getting more apps from the DMV and so redxed merit - kind of like Pitt did.

17 applications are too many. Likely accounts for the poor results.

Anonymous wrote:Given the uncertainty DD spread a wide net

1290 SAT
3.4 uw/3.7 w

Accepted: Towson ($3k merit), College of Charleston ($12.5k), Miami-Ohio ($10k), High Point ($7k), St. Joe's ($17k), Pitt, Delaware ($2k), Alabama ($6k), Butler ($16k)

Still waiting: VT, UConn

Deferred: JMU, Elon, Miami

Denied: Tulane, UMD, Clemson

White female in MCPS, undecided major

Accepted at St. Joe's with $15K merit, so down $2K from PP's offer last year and with better scores. Maybe they are getting more apps from the DMV and so redxed merit - kind of like Pitt did.

Anonymous wrote:Are there stats on crimes against JHU students?

Did you google before you asked? Every school is required by law to publish crime stats. The reports are there for you to find if you google for them.

Are there stats on crimes against JHU students?

Those officers can patrol the parts of the city that Hopkins owns...but kids drive to parties and bars at night. THat takes them through the high risk neighborhoods and has them parking in them.

To the person who lives there (and there certainly are very nice neighborhoods north of the campus), you obviously feel comfortable with that choice. And you maybe don't hang out late at night like college students do. Regardless, my opinion (as someone who lived there for five years) is just as valid as yours...and I am informing parents that it is not that safe.

Anonymous wrote:Wonder why a college would need to ask the legislature for that? Think about it.

2 reasons. First, they know Baltimore has a terrible reputation so they want to reassure parents their kids are safe. Second, JHU’s President wants to do everything Penn does and Penn has its own armed police. As does the U of Chicago. As does USC. Why do they all have police?

Rice is 8.7% acceptance rate this year.

Wonder why a college would need to ask the legislature for that? Think about it.

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you who can’t do Hopkins...take solace in the fact that the neighborhood is not safe (this from a Hopkins grad)

Can you elaborate on safety PP? Do students go out in the neighborhood for dinner? Is campus itself safe to walk across at night? Is it a source of stress?

I live less than 2 miles from campus. It is very safe. There are areas within a mile that aren’t safe but no one would ever go to them. There are areas within a mile of Capitol Hill that aren’t safe and you would never go to.

Plus Hopkins just got legislative authority to create its own armed police force. The campus area will be safer than ever

Anonymous wrote:Brown 6.6%

https://news.brown.edu/articles/2019/03/admission?utm_medium=Feed&utm_campaign=News_Features&utm_content=admission&utm_source=Twitter

Wow. It was around 15% for my class.

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Anonymous wrote:Can people add if their kid went to private or public and if public were they in AAP program first. Trying to figure out if private was worth it. Please no snark as a lot of people are wondering same thing

It’s too late!

Yep top private’s are worth it. Top private’s defined as 60% go to a top 30 univ or top 10 lac. If your kid do not make the cut and 60% of the class did, it’s your kid. To me if 25-30% are going Ivy and my kids not, it’s my kid too. I think it’s extremely hard to be one of the top 3-5 students but top half or third requires effort not brilliance. So for us it has been worth it.

I think this description is off. Plenty of kids from DC top private choose to go to SLACS ranked from 10 - 30 over non-ivy top 30 US news universities in that range. Examples they would choose Colby Hamilton or Colgate over USC, Carnegie Mellon, Michigan, NYU.

In the past. Most current kids like the urban schools.

You can go to dinner, but might get robbed leaving a party in the early morning hours

Kids are likely not stressed...because 19 year olds are pretty clueless about risk.

According to Unigo (a website), only 37% if students say, I feel extremely safe.” You can compare that to other schools on that site...but it is kind of low. (At NYU , for example, that number is 43%)

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who can’t do Hopkins...take solace in the fact that the neighborhood is not safe (this from a Hopkins grad)

Can you elaborate on safety PP? Do students go out in the neighborhood for dinner? Is campus itself safe to walk across at night? Is it a source of stress?