Anonymous
10/09/2019 14:55
Subject: Re:Where did your 33/34 ACT, 3.9 UW GPA get in?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:my kid attends a top local private and I can tell you that the kids I know who are hooked and are applying early to the place where they have a leg up (ie legacy) also are the full package. They have top grades and scores etc. Don't assume that their only advantage is the legacy.
Born on 3rd, thinks they hit a triple. They are the "full package" bc their rich parents can afford a excellent learning environment and other enrichment activities. -- signed Ivy league graduate who attended elite private HS and was legacy at the Ivy I attended.
You’re right, they must all suk. All the millions of Ivy alums’ millions of offspring— all dumb as doornails and uncoordinated as the stooges. How dare their parents have jobs and careers to pay for anything I cannot.
Apparently you don’t grasp what born on third means.
Anonymous
10/09/2019 13:57
Subject: Where did your 33/34 ACT, 3.9 UW GPA get in?
Anonymous wrote:3.8 uw/4.3 w 33 ACT from FCPS
In at Pitt, Lehigh, Wake Forest, URochester, UVA
Waitlisted at Emory
Ds really liked mid size research universities. Chose Lehigh and loves it.
Geez, waitlist Ed?! DS only has a 32.
Anonymous
10/07/2019 23:10
Subject: Re:Where did your 33/34 ACT, 3.9 UW GPA get in?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:my kid attends a top local private and I can tell you that the kids I know who are hooked and are applying early to the place where they have a leg up (ie legacy) also are the full package. They have top grades and scores etc. Don't assume that their only advantage is the legacy.
Born on 3rd, thinks they hit a triple. They are the "full package" bc their rich parents can afford a excellent learning environment and other enrichment activities. -- signed Ivy league graduate who attended elite private HS and was legacy at the Ivy I attended.
You’re right, they must all suk. All the millions of Ivy alums’ millions of offspring— all dumb as doornails and uncoordinated as the stooges. How dare their parents have jobs and careers to pay for anything I cannot.
Anonymous
10/07/2019 19:41
Subject: Re:Where did your 33/34 ACT, 3.9 UW GPA get in?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:my kid attends a top local private and I can tell you that the kids I know who are hooked and are applying early to the place where they have a leg up (ie legacy) also are the full package. They have top grades and scores etc. Don't assume that their only advantage is the legacy.
Born on 3rd, thinks they hit a triple. They are the "full package" bc their rich parents can afford a excellent learning environment and other enrichment activities. -- signed Ivy league graduate who attended elite private HS and was legacy at the Ivy I attended.
+1. Range Rover moms lack perspective.
Anonymous
10/07/2019 17:16
Subject: Re:Where did your 33/34 ACT, 3.9 UW GPA get in?
Anonymous wrote:my kid attends a top local private and I can tell you that the kids I know who are hooked and are applying early to the place where they have a leg up (ie legacy) also are the full package. They have top grades and scores etc. Don't assume that their only advantage is the legacy.
Born on 3rd, thinks they hit a triple. They are the "full package" bc their rich parents can afford a excellent learning environment and other enrichment activities. -- signed Ivy league graduate who attended elite private HS and was legacy at the Ivy I attended.
Anonymous
10/07/2019 14:24
Subject: Re:Where did your 33/34 ACT, 3.9 UW GPA get in?
Have a similar kid and would love to know where other similar kids have been accepted. thanks
Anonymous
10/06/2019 13:26
Subject: Where did your 33/34 ACT, 3.9 UW GPA get in?
3.8 uw/4.3 w 33 ACT from FCPS
In at Pitt, Lehigh, Wake Forest, URochester, UVA
Waitlisted at Emory
Ds really liked mid size research universities. Chose Lehigh and loves it.
In at Pitt, Lehigh, Wake Forest, URochester, UVA
Waitlisted at Emory
Ds really liked mid size research universities. Chose Lehigh and loves it.
Anonymous
10/06/2019 12:54
Subject: Where did your 33/34 ACT, 3.9 UW GPA get in?
Anonymous wrote:How is your private school packaging and presenting the kids?
Just found out the 2019 matriculation of my NE private HS:
Out of 120 kids:
19 Harvard
8 Dartmouth
3 UPenn
2 Stanford
1 Columbia
1 Cornell
1 Brown
1 MIT
8 Middlebury
5 Williams
5 Tufts
3 U Chicago
3 Georgetown
3 Duke
Are these kids any smarter than yours? No. Do half the class have hooks? Probably not. The counselors have an impact.
Legacies? Donor kids? Recruited athletes? Agree on counselors.
Anonymous
10/06/2019 05:01
Subject: Re:Where did your 33/34 ACT, 3.9 UW GPA get in?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Our DS had a 3.8 UW and 34 ACT from a strong local private (not big-3). Accepted ED at Cornell.
Yeah but Cornell is very cold, dour, hard-ass grading and generally unfun. Ivy price without any of its benefits.
Essentially every private school is Ivy priced. At least Cornell is actually an Ivy.
Last year my son applied to 12 school including all the Ivy's. He was accepted in Harvard and Cornell and few other top schools and he decided to attend
Cornell. He is very happy and having lots of fun. Tuition is almost the same across the board.
Anonymous
10/06/2019 04:53
Subject: Where did your 33/34 ACT, 3.9 UW GPA get in?
Anonymous wrote:Looking for kids with similar stats in last couple of years and where they got accepted and rejected.
33/34 ACT
3.9 GPA (private does not weight)
very good ECs
no major national awards, not curing cancer or starting a non profit
interested in where similar kids got in without hooks
thanks
Very good stats!
Visit as many schools as your kid wants and them he/she will let you know where he wants to apply.
After that the process is much easier.
An the most important thing...stay away from DCUM
Anonymous
10/05/2019 22:24
Subject: Re:Where did your 33/34 ACT, 3.9 UW GPA get in?
Anonymous wrote:my kid attends a top local private and I can tell you that the kids I know who are hooked and are applying early to the place where they have a leg up (ie legacy) also are the full package. They have top grades and scores etc. Don't assume that their only advantage is the legacy.
Wow. Your snowflake really deserved it then!!!
Silly poster. Do you not realize that their full package was statistically slightly less of a full package??? Their were thousands more that were as good or better without the hook.
Anonymous
10/05/2019 21:35
Subject: Re:Where did your 33/34 ACT, 3.9 UW GPA get in?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Our DS had a 3.8 UW and 34 ACT from a strong local private (not big-3). Accepted ED at Cornell.
Yeah but Cornell is very cold, dour, hard-ass grading and generally unfun. Ivy price without any of its benefits.
Essentially every private school is Ivy priced. At least Cornell is actually an Ivy.
+1 If you are majoring in engineering,, architecture or several other majors Cornell is actually the top Ivy.
Anonymous
10/05/2019 21:31
Subject: Re:Where did your 33/34 ACT, 3.9 UW GPA get in?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Our DS had a 3.8 UW and 34 ACT from a strong local private (not big-3). Accepted ED at Cornell.
Yeah but Cornell is very cold, dour, hard-ass grading and generally unfun. Ivy price without any of its benefits.
Essentially every private school is Ivy priced. At least Cornell is actually an Ivy.
Anonymous
10/05/2019 21:25
Subject: Re:Where did your 33/34 ACT, 3.9 UW GPA get in?
my kid attends a top local private and I can tell you that the kids I know who are hooked and are applying early to the place where they have a leg up (ie legacy) also are the full package. They have top grades and scores etc. Don't assume that their only advantage is the legacy.
Anonymous
10/05/2019 21:08
Subject: Where did your 33/34 ACT, 3.9 UW GPA get in?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Looks like a 3.9 and 33/34 is a recipe for some excellent outcomes. Congrats to these kids. Gives me hope!
Oh please. Don’t be naive. At the top 15 it is a lottery unless you are hooked. And parents are loath to mention their kid’s hook in this type of conversation.
Bitter loser, too ashamed to put your kid’s school on your bumper.
Nope my kids are toddlers. But I went Ivy (would never make it now) but I work in university development. So I know how artificial the process is.
So every kid who got into the good schools above were either hooked or just got lucky. Gotcha. Then why are you here? If it’s all luck and hooks what could you possibly learn. Looking forward to your nothing response.
My response? Sorry you’re so bitter. I know the inside baseball. I also know that it’s the person not the school that determines the achievement.