Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, the days of legacy admission are fully over.

My DD was denied yesterday, despite both parents and one grandparent graduating undergrad.

One parent also got an MBA there, one grandparent got their JD there and one grandparent taught there for 15 years.

What's that, 6 hooks?

Stats weren't perfect (obviously), but were on par for a gimme admission.

She wasn't going to go even if she got in but I have to admit to being shocked.

They probably could tell she wasn't going to go or her stats were not high enough. It is very competitive.

Yes, I know. I went there. Twice. And my DH went there. So did his father. Oh, and my father taught there for a decade and a half. I kinda know the place.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, the days of legacy admission are fully over.

My DD was denied yesterday, despite both parents and one grandparent graduating undergrad.

One parent also got an MBA there, one grandparent got their JD there and one grandparent taught there for 15 years.

What's that, 6 hooks?

Stats weren't perfect (obviously), but were on par for a gimme admission.

She wasn't going to go even if she got in but I have to admit to being shocked.

Grad school alum isn't a hook and unless your family was given 6-7 figure gifts, then being a legacy really isn't a hook.

And she wasn't going to go and that probably reflected in her essays and interview.

So you shouldn't really be shocked.

Her interviewer was a lesbian woman in a hotel lobby who basically crapped on my DD's many athletic achievements and spent the 15 minutes big upping 'diversity.'

It was garbage.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree to weird year. Waitlist middlebury and Boston college. Accepted Vermont, uga honors, Richmond, wake, Colgate, tufts, Emory, uva out of state, Georgetown, Vanderbilt. Make Boston college make sense 😂

Waitlisted Villanova and Tufts.

In at Pomona, BC, Georgetown, UVA, WM Monroe, waiting on Ivies tonight.

I do think they can tell when you are a 'back-up'. My kid is seriously interested in the 5 he did get into, and Tufts and Villanova were afterthought applications after getting deferred from GU EA.

where is your child leaning towards if no Ivy?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amherst a top SLAC-Davidson in different tier.

Rice is impossible to get and Columbia an Ivy.

Georgetown the lowest ranked out of this group.

Nothing impossible about Rice. DD in at Rice, rejected Vandy and Emory.

Different poster here. It depends on your school. At my kid's private Rice is a much harder admit than Columbia.
There has been one admit in 5 years and it was a kid with a 4.0 which does't even happen every year (most years there are no 4.0 grads).
Meanwhile Columbia (and other Ivies) have taken multiple unhooked kids with a 3.8.
Rice is viewed as impossible.

Interesting. Where are you located? DMV? Texas?

DMV Big3

Anonymous wrote:Agree to weird year. Waitlist middlebury and Boston college. Accepted Vermont, uga honors, Richmond, wake, Colgate, tufts, Emory, uva out of state, Georgetown, Vanderbilt. Make Boston college make sense 😂

Waitlisted Villanova and Tufts.

In at Pomona, BC, Georgetown, UVA, WM Monroe, waiting on Ivies tonight.

I do think they can tell when you are a 'back-up'. My kid is seriously interested in the 5 he did get into, and Tufts and Villanova were afterthought applications after getting deferred from GU EA.

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Anonymous wrote:Waitlisted. Such a weird year. Waitlisted at georgetown, vanderbilt and davidson. Accepted to amherst, columbia and rice.

You weren't expecting to get accepted to ALL of the reach schools you applied to, were you?

If so, that's unrealistic.

Agree. I get where you are coming from PP. Your kid got into single digit acceptance rate schools and waitlisted to slightly easier admits. Mine did, too. But with reaches the expectation is to get rejected from most or even all. With targets a fifty/fifty balance would be expected. There is no such thing as, "My kid got into Amherst, therefore he should have gotten into Georgetown." They are both reaches for anyone. Even in MY day, three decades ago, this was true.

Anonymous wrote:Well, the days of legacy admission are fully over.

My DD was denied yesterday, despite both parents and one grandparent graduating undergrad.

One parent also got an MBA there, one grandparent got their JD there and one grandparent taught there for 15 years.

What's that, 6 hooks?

Stats weren't perfect (obviously), but were on par for a gimme admission.

She wasn't going to go even if she got in but I have to admit to being shocked.

Hmm.

Your thoughts on affirmative action?

Anonymous wrote:Well, the days of legacy admission are fully over.

My DD was denied yesterday, despite both parents and one grandparent graduating undergrad.

One parent also got an MBA there, one grandparent got their JD there and one grandparent taught there for 15 years.

What's that, 6 hooks?

Stats weren't perfect (obviously), but were on par for a gimme admission.

She wasn't going to go even if she got in but I have to admit to being shocked.

They probably could tell she wasn't going to go or her stats were not high enough. It is very competitive.

Anonymous wrote:Waitlisted. Such a weird year. Waitlisted at georgetown, vanderbilt and davidson. Accepted to amherst, columbia and rice.

You weren't expecting to get accepted to ALL of the reach schools you applied to, were you?

If so, that's unrealistic.

Anonymous wrote:Well, the days of legacy admission are fully over.

My DD was denied yesterday, despite both parents and one grandparent graduating undergrad.

One parent also got an MBA there, one grandparent got their JD there and one grandparent taught there for 15 years.

What's that, 6 hooks?

Stats weren't perfect (obviously), but were on par for a gimme admission.

She wasn't going to go even if she got in but I have to admit to being shocked.

Grad school alum isn't a hook and unless your family was given 6-7 figure gifts, then being a legacy really isn't a hook.

And she wasn't going to go and that probably reflected in her essays and interview.

So you shouldn't really be shocked.

Would pick Rice in a millisecond over Gtown for anything STEM.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amherst a top SLAC-Davidson in different tier.

Rice is impossible to get and Columbia an Ivy.

Georgetown the lowest ranked out of this group.

Nothing impossible about Rice. DD in at Rice, rejected Vandy and Emory.

Different poster here. It depends on your school. At my kid's private Rice is a much harder admit than Columbia.
There has been one admit in 5 years and it was a kid with a 4.0 which does't even happen every year (most years there are no 4.0 grads).
Meanwhile Columbia (and other Ivies) have taken multiple unhooked kids with a 3.8.
Rice is viewed as impossible.

Interesting. Where are you located? DMV? Texas?

Mine would have gone had she gotten in. Very disappointed 2x alum.

Anonymous wrote:Well, the days of legacy admission are fully over.

My DD was denied yesterday, despite both parents and one grandparent graduating undergrad.

One parent also got an MBA there, one grandparent got their JD there and one grandparent taught there for 15 years.

What's that, 6 hooks?

Stats weren't perfect (obviously), but were on par for a gimme admission.

She wasn't going to go even if she got in but I have to admit to being shocked.

It’s understandable that you’re upset, but that’s the part that stuck out for me. “She wasn’t going to go.” It sounds like they could tell and your DD will still have a bright future.

Yield protection? Not enough interest expressed in essays? Other kids from your school already going??