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Anonymous wrote:Wake rolling ED/ED0.
Make sure you sign your kid up for a summer program right now so you can submit the application on July 1. You should hear back around Labor Day.

If it doesn’t work out, pivot to something else for ED1.

Which summer program?

If you are a private school full-pay parent serious about ED0 at Wake, you should hire a private counselor ASAP. Especially if your kid is near bottom half of class. It is the private school parent’s secret weapon for lower performing kids. There’s a whole strategy and checklist of things you need to do.

Check your school's Scoir or MaiaLearning or Naviance. That will readjust expectations. I was surprised how different some outcomes were for our private HS kids versus normal published stats. Sometimes much better than what I expected, other times our school is not known and kids are fully shut out.

The rigor will matter too. If he's taking the highest curriculum at your school, he won't be penalized for not taking clasess your HS doesn't offer.

Also, what kind of student is the 50% ile at your school and is there grade inflation? At our private HS, it has pretty competitive academic entry so everyone comes in from gr. 8 having to take an entry test and with strong grades. So if you're in the top half of our school, you probably are taking really hard courses and getting A- average.

Anonymous wrote:At our private, without Calculus it would be:

Tulane (ED)
Wake (ED) - non stem or business major
SMU - non business
U-Miami (ED)
Santa Clara
Lehigh (ED)

This is a good list. I’d add Bucknell and Syracuse, maybe ED at both. And Clemson.

UVA

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, I wasn't expecting schools like these. Those schools are a totally different level of selectivity than the ones I've been taking my kid to see. It wouldn't have occured to me that they were options.

-- OP

I don’t know what private that person’s kids attend, but neither BC nor Tufts would be where students at even Sidwell or GDS wind up who have not taken calculus and have SAT scores below 1500.

I agree that this poster is wildly optimistic. My DC has a 3.9/35 from a Big3 and was just waitlisted at BC last week. His friend with a 3.8+ was waitlisted at Tufts. ED at these schools is quite a bit easier but not at the 50%tile if there are no hooks and this is a Big3 school and these kids had calculus.

Take a look at Sidwell matriculation: https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation
There are only very few schools ranked lower than Rochester. You big fat liar.

You're a complete a$$. I'm not lying and you clearly have no understanding of the college process.
My kid was deferred from BC. He has another strong option. He also has received quite a few deferrals from schools at the BC level. If you look at the matriculation list next year you'll only see his strong matriculation. That doesn't negate his deferral from BC.

You can definitely get into BC unhooked without calc and a SAT below 1500. It’s not that competitive.

Acceptance rate was 16 percent LAST cycle. This might be possible for a legacy but not unhooked.

Just STOP! You don't need legacy status for BC.
BC is expanding fast. Full pay should do it, if OP loves BC, then ED.

We are far from full pay, at either his current school or for college.

But my kid also doesn't want BC.

How much do finances play a role in where he gets in? I know they'll play a role in where they eventually go.

-- OP

Anonymous wrote:Wake rolling ED/ED0.
Make sure you sign your kid up for a summer program right now so you can submit the application on July 1. You should hear back around Labor Day.

If it doesn’t work out, pivot to something else for ED1.

Which summer program?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, I wasn't expecting schools like these. Those schools are a totally different level of selectivity than the ones I've been taking my kid to see. It wouldn't have occured to me that they were options.

-- OP

I don’t know what private that person’s kids attend, but neither BC nor Tufts would be where students at even Sidwell or GDS wind up who have not taken calculus and have SAT scores below 1500.

I agree that this poster is wildly optimistic. My DC has a 3.9/35 from a Big3 and was just waitlisted at BC last week. His friend with a 3.8+ was waitlisted at Tufts. ED at these schools is quite a bit easier but not at the 50%tile if there are no hooks and this is a Big3 school and these kids had calculus.

Take a look at Sidwell matriculation: https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation
There are only very few schools ranked lower than Rochester. You big fat liar.

You're a complete a$$. I'm not lying and you clearly have no understanding of the college process.
My kid was deferred from BC. He has another strong option. He also has received quite a few deferrals from schools at the BC level. If you look at the matriculation list next year you'll only see his strong matriculation. That doesn't negate his deferral from BC.

You can definitely get into BC unhooked without calc and a SAT below 1500. It’s not that competitive.

Acceptance rate was 16 percent LAST cycle. This might be possible for a legacy but not unhooked.

Just STOP! You don't need legacy status for BC.
BC is expanding fast. Full pay should do it, if OP loves BC, then ED.

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Anonymous wrote:Our school provides info on typical schools for kids at different parts of the GPA distribution (based on previous year acceptances).

For the middle (3rd decile), the mentioned schools were: Colgate, Fordham, U of Miami, Northeastern, URichmond, Skidmore, Tulane, William and Mary, Villanova, Wisconsin.

Sorry, I meant quintile, not decile.

Just to add that for the lowest quintile, the schools were: Elon, Kenyon, Oberlin, Penn State, Pitzer, Purdue, Reed, SMU, Gettysburg, Hobart Williams Smith, College of Charleston

The list kind of makes sense. Those schools are expensive but are doable for a private school family.

Anonymous wrote:I would be thrilled if my top stats kid at a solid private that sends many kids to schools popular with DCUM got into Kenyon or Oberlin or William and Mary. That’s the problem- many people don’t appreciate the entire range of great schools out there. They’re fixated on T-25 and the current “hot” schools.

Kenyon or Oberlin or William and Mary?
These are good solid schools, at least not worse than BC.

I feel like Syracuse is popular with this demographic.

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Anonymous wrote:Carroll requires decent stats. Non-Carroll at BC is not difficult to get in.

Correct. But if you can get into Carroll you should aim for a better brand name.

Many prefer Carroll over Stern because of a better experience at Carroll. Stern is just too cutthroat.

Less known school, good outcome, good experience.

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Anonymous wrote:Carroll requires decent stats. Non-Carroll at BC is not difficult to get in.

BTW Carroll has a separate admission from other parts of BC, with a lower acceptance rate.

The same can be said for most undergrad business programs.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, I wasn't expecting schools like these. Those schools are a totally different level of selectivity than the ones I've been taking my kid to see. It wouldn't have occured to me that they were options.

-- OP

I don’t know what private that person’s kids attend, but neither BC nor Tufts would be where students at even Sidwell or GDS wind up who have not taken calculus and have SAT scores below 1500.

I agree that this poster is wildly optimistic. My DC has a 3.9/35 from a Big3 and was just waitlisted at BC last week. His friend with a 3.8+ was waitlisted at Tufts. ED at these schools is quite a bit easier but not at the 50%tile if there are no hooks and this is a Big3 school and these kids had calculus.

Take a look at Sidwell matriculation: https://www.sidwell.edu/academics/college-counseling/college-matriculation
There are only very few schools ranked lower than Rochester. You big fat liar.

You're a complete a$$. I'm not lying and you clearly have no understanding of the college process.
My kid was deferred from BC. He has another strong option. He also has received quite a few deferrals from schools at the BC level. If you look at the matriculation list next year you'll only see his strong matriculation. That doesn't negate his deferral from BC. :roll:

You can definitely get into BC unhooked without calc and a SAT below 1500. It’s not that competitive.

Acceptance rate was 16 percent LAST cycle. This might be possible for a legacy but not unhooked.

You’d be surprised. So long as the essay is legible you have a good chance.

Thank you for revealing yourself to be a troll.

A troll would say their child was an academic rockstar at a private school and got deferred from BC, as posted previously.

Anonymous wrote:Carroll requires decent stats. Non-Carroll at BC is not difficult to get in.

Correct. But if you can get into Carroll you should aim for a better brand name.

I would be thrilled if my top stats kid at a solid private that sends many kids to schools popular with DCUM got into Kenyon or Oberlin or William and Mary. That’s the problem- many people don’t appreciate the entire range of great schools out there. They’re fixated on T-25 and the current “hot” schools.