Anonymous
Post 04/10/2022 22:42     Subject: Re:Tell me about your "average" Big-3 student's college admissions
Anonymous wrote:Heard from someone in the know…and yet not sure whether to believe this…:

Princeton admitted less than 5 white males this year who were NOT legacy or athletes or first in family to attend college.

Less than 5 TOTAL.

Can this be true? We will never know, I suppose. But as a follower of college admission trends, I do find it believable.


Categorically untrue. But a nice story for people who didn’t get accepted to try to convince others of.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2022 22:02     Subject: Re:Tell me about your "average" Big-3 student's college admissions
Anonymous wrote:Heard from someone in the know…and yet not sure whether to believe this…:

Princeton admitted less than 5 white males this year who were NOT legacy or athletes or first in family to attend college.

Less than 5 TOTAL.

Can this be true? We will never know, I suppose. But as a follower of college admission trends, I do find it believable.


Yes, that can be true. When you look at the common data set, and parse through the numbers, you can figure out and ask the question...will I (or my kid) be one of the 5-10 XX type kids to be admitted to this school.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2022 20:33     Subject: Re:Tell me about your "average" Big-3 student's college admissions
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Heard from someone in the know…and yet not sure whether to believe this…:

Princeton admitted less than 5 white males this year who were NOT legacy or athletes or first in family to attend college.

Less than 5 TOTAL.

Can this be true? We will never know, I suppose. But as a follower of college admission trends, I do find it believable.




https://images.app.goo.gl/ghhkUQ3puK3c5oRx8


Lol
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2022 20:18     Subject: Re:Tell me about your "average" Big-3 student's college admissions
Anonymous wrote:Heard from someone in the know…and yet not sure whether to believe this…:

Princeton admitted less than 5 white males this year who were NOT legacy or athletes or first in family to attend college.

Less than 5 TOTAL.

Can this be true? We will never know, I suppose. But as a follower of college admission trends, I do find it believable.


Total BS.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2022 20:07     Subject: Re:Tell me about your "average" Big-3 student's college admissions
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Heard from someone in the know…and yet not sure whether to believe this…:

Princeton admitted less than 5 white males this year who were NOT legacy or athletes or first in family to attend college.

Less than 5 TOTAL.

Can this be true? We will never know, I suppose. But as a follower of college admission trends, I do find it believable.


Let me guess. You’re white.

You would believe something as stupid as the this.


+I’m sick of the White Man’s Blues.

-a white man
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2022 19:28     Subject: Re:Tell me about your "average" Big-3 student's college admissions
Anonymous wrote:Heard from someone in the know…and yet not sure whether to believe this…:

Princeton admitted less than 5 white males this year who were NOT legacy or athletes or first in family to attend college.

Less than 5 TOTAL.

Can this be true? We will never know, I suppose. But as a follower of college admission trends, I do find it believable.




https://images.app.goo.gl/ghhkUQ3puK3c5oRx8
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2022 18:53     Subject: Re:Tell me about your "average" Big-3 student's college admissions
Anonymous wrote:Heard from someone in the know…and yet not sure whether to believe this…:

Princeton admitted less than 5 white males this year who were NOT legacy or athletes or first in family to attend college.

Less than 5 TOTAL.

Can this be true? We will never know, I suppose. But as a follower of college admission trends, I do find it believable.


huh. I can't believe this because I personally know two and I don't know many seniors as my kids are younger.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2022 18:22     Subject: Re:Tell me about your "average" Big-3 student's college admissions
Anonymous wrote:Heard from someone in the know…and yet not sure whether to believe this…:

Princeton admitted less than 5 white males this year who were NOT legacy or athletes or first in family to attend college.

Less than 5 TOTAL.

Can this be true? We will never know, I suppose. But as a follower of college admission trends, I do find it believable.


Let me guess. You’re white.

You would believe something as stupid as the this.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2022 17:45     Subject: Re:Tell me about your "average" Big-3 student's college admissions
Heard from someone in the know…and yet not sure whether to believe this…:

Princeton admitted less than 5 white males this year who were NOT legacy or athletes or first in family to attend college.

Less than 5 TOTAL.

Can this be true? We will never know, I suppose. But as a follower of college admission trends, I do find it believable.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2022 16:31     Subject: Tell me about your "average" Big-3 student's college admissions
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Whats the average profile at Big 3? 3.2-3.4 GPA, 1350 SAT, 32 ACT or thereabouts?


Average sat is just over 1400.

Profile is probably 3.5/1410.
That's my guess.
Also, not all grading is the same at the various "Big3" schools. I have kids at STA and NCS and NCS is far stingier with grades.
My impression is that Sidwell is also stingy but GDS kids have higher GPAs.


Sidwell - very stingy.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2022 16:24     Subject: Tell me about your "average" Big-3 student's college admissions
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Whats the average profile at Big 3? 3.2-3.4 GPA, 1350 SAT, 32 ACT or thereabouts?


Average sat is just over 1400.

Profile is probably 3.5/1410.
That's my guess.
Also, not all grading is the same at the various "Big3" schools. I have kids at STA and NCS and NCS is far stingier with grades.
My impression is that Sidwell is also stingy but GDS kids have higher GPAs.


I agree average is 3.2-3.4 and 1400-1500/32-34






WSJ Nov 30, 2019
Median SAT for Sidwell 1310


I was talking about NCS. According to the Academic Profile they send to colleges the median is 34 and 1420. I suspect this is very similar to Sidwell.


There is no way, none, that Sidwell provided internal SAT data to the WSJ. Or GPA, since we're on the topic. The PP who posted the 2019 article from WSJ should go back and look at the WSJ's data source -- bet it's some nonsense like Niche.

Sidwell doesn't give this information to its own students.



So the poster is half right and half wrong.

The WSJ did obtain median SAT scores for basically every school in the nation. They got it from the College Board, not the schools, back when the College Board was thinking about using an “adversity index.”

However, Sidwell’s median was 1480, not 1310. STA was 1460, NCS was 1430. Here is the link:

https://graphics.wsj.com/dynamic-inset-iframer/?url=https://asset.wsj.net/wsjnewsgraphics/dice/ADVERSITY-e4e29395-d059-499c-aa63-6f10f4132367/inset.json&layout=bleed



GDS was 1410, Potomac 1400, Holton Arms 1375, and Maret 1370 in case anyone was wondering.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2022 15:05     Subject: Tell me about your "average" Big-3 student's college admissions
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Whats the average profile at Big 3? 3.2-3.4 GPA, 1350 SAT, 32 ACT or thereabouts?


Average sat is just over 1400.

Profile is probably 3.5/1410.
That's my guess.
Also, not all grading is the same at the various "Big3" schools. I have kids at STA and NCS and NCS is far stingier with grades.
My impression is that Sidwell is also stingy but GDS kids have higher GPAs.


I agree average is 3.2-3.4 and 1400-1500/32-34






WSJ Nov 30, 2019
Median SAT for Sidwell 1310


I was talking about NCS. According to the Academic Profile they send to colleges the median is 34 and 1420. I suspect this is very similar to Sidwell.


There is no way, none, that Sidwell provided internal SAT data to the WSJ. Or GPA, since we're on the topic. The PP who posted the 2019 article from WSJ should go back and look at the WSJ's data source -- bet it's some nonsense like Niche.

Sidwell doesn't give this information to its own students.



So the poster is half right and half wrong.

The WSJ did obtain median SAT scores for basically every school in the nation. They got it from the College Board, not the schools, back when the College Board was thinking about using an “adversity index.”

However, Sidwell’s median was 1480, not 1310. STA was 1460, NCS was 1430. Here is the link:

https://graphics.wsj.com/dynamic-inset-iframer/?url=https://asset.wsj.net/wsjnewsgraphics/dice/ADVERSITY-e4e29395-d059-499c-aa63-6f10f4132367/inset.json&layout=bleed

Anonymous
Post 04/10/2022 14:59     Subject: Re:Tell me about your "average" Big-3 student's college admissions
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Middle of the pack kids at Big3 or other top private schools do better in admissions than middle of the pack public school kids.


Relevance?


It's relevant because people on DCUM whine all the time about how hard admissions are for their private school kids.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2022 14:56     Subject: Tell me about your "average" Big-3 student's college admissions
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Whats the average profile at Big 3? 3.2-3.4 GPA, 1350 SAT, 32 ACT or thereabouts?


Average sat is just over 1400.

Profile is probably 3.5/1410.
That's my guess.
Also, not all grading is the same at the various "Big3" schools. I have kids at STA and NCS and NCS is far stingier with grades.
My impression is that Sidwell is also stingy but GDS kids have higher GPAs.


I agree average is 3.2-3.4 and 1400-1500/32-34






WSJ Nov 30, 2019
Median SAT for Sidwell 1310


I was talking about NCS. According to the Academic Profile they send to colleges the median is 34 and 1420. I suspect this is very similar to Sidwell.


There is no way, none, that Sidwell provided internal SAT data to the WSJ. Or GPA, since we're on the topic. The PP who posted the 2019 article from WSJ should go back and look at the WSJ's data source -- bet it's some nonsense like Niche.

Sidwell doesn't give this information to its own students.

Anonymous
Post 04/10/2022 12:10     Subject: Tell me about your "average" Big-3 student's college admissions
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Whats the average profile at Big 3? 3.2-3.4 GPA, 1350 SAT, 32 ACT or thereabouts?


Average sat is just over 1400.

Profile is probably 3.5/1410.
That's my guess.
Also, not all grading is the same at the various "Big3" schools. I have kids at STA and NCS and NCS is far stingier with grades.
My impression is that Sidwell is also stingy but GDS kids have higher GPAs.


I agree average is 3.2-3.4 and 1400-1500/32-34




WSJ Nov 30, 2019
Median SAT for Sidwell 1310


I was talking about NCS. According to the Academic Profile they send to colleges the median is 34 and 1420. I suspect this is very similar to Sidwell.