Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It really is a crap shoot at the top colleges!

DD got into MIT and Harvard; was rejected at Stanford and University of Pennsylvania.

Any others?

Please just stop.

Really. But I am wondering which school DD chose.

Amazingly, different colleges have different needs. Just because you get into one school doesn’t mean you meet the needs of another, despite them possibly having a higher aceeptance rate.

I've heard some schools will reject if they can tell theyre a safety school for that student.

Anonymous wrote:This little exercise was done to death back in May. Give it a rest. No one cares. It doesn't matter. It's anonymous and no one knows your kids background or even cares.

I think it's done to demonstrate the crapshoot. it's not a out the individual kids but the realities of the college process. Don't take these decisions personally because they aren't an accurate reflection on you/your child's abilities.

It's interesting but only to a point. I wouldn't look for logic. These schools are flooded with applicants. So if your student has the stats, that's just the entry cost for the lottery ticket. Winning it, amongst a sea of amazingly talented applicants, is indeed, a lottery. Please realize no school with a lower than 20-25% acceptance rate is a safety, it's a rookie mistake (Georgetown??!!).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In at Occidental and UCLA; rejected at Scripps and Berkeley. We’re California residents.

Scripts and Berkeley are/were both banned by USNews for fudging their data.

2019- old news.

Once a fraud, always a fraud.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In at Occidental and UCLA; rejected at Scripps and Berkeley. We’re California residents.

Scripts and Berkeley are/were both banned by USNews for fudging their data.

2019- old news.

Into Pomona; rejected
At Conn and Trinity

Son waitlisted at Brandeis & Case Western, accepted at Carnegie Mellon.

Rejections were only amongst reaches above CM.

Anonymous wrote:In at Yale, Notre Dame, UVA; rejected at Emory, Wesleyan, Denison and Villanova; WL at Virginia Tech. None of it makes much sense.

Yield issue? From my current high schooler's college night talk, a well known safety school recently began pulling back on the number of acceptances of kids from this school. Reason being yield. The college doesn't want to be a safety school and its previous low number of attendings look bad. So it literally halved the number of kids they were accepting from said school.
If RP's kid was Ivy level material, non-Ivy schools probably don't want to play ball with him/her.

Accepted: Cornell, USC, Umich
Rejected: WashU, Barnard, Emory, Hopkins
Attending: Cornell

Rejected: Georgeia Tech

Waitlisted: Georgetonw and Northeastern

In: Notre Dame Mendoza

In at one crapshoot and out at another isn’t interesting. That’s normal.

In at Michigan. Rejected U Conn. This is what we’re here for.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Can you give your kids stats pls?

OP here. 1600 SAT, 3.99 unweighted GPA, 14 APs. Regular public high school (not magnet but well ranked).

Similar

MIT & Univ of Penn & Stanford accepted

Univ. Chicago denied.

Anonymous wrote:It really is a crap shoot at the top colleges!

DD got into MIT and Harvard; was rejected at Stanford and University of Pennsylvania.

Any others?

You couldn't wait to come here and post this.