Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you're a high stat kid and aiming for a T20 or Ivy, you will need to apply to more. The lesson from the Class of 2025 is that there are more high stat kids than room at many of these colleges.

Mine applied to 13 including 1 ED.
Accepted to 6 (all safeties and 1 target), Waitlisted at 3 (all target), Rejected at 4 (all ivys/reach)

His stats were above the threshhold for all 13 and he had pretty good (not great) ECs, as well as a long term job, and a research internship.

The landscape of college admissions now is more like a lottery - sometimes you just can't predict the outcome.

Not sure why this is considered a Class of 2025 thing. My Class of 2020 was told exactly this at some T20s. It’s been a fact for at least 10 years or more

Same in 2022 and many other years. This is not news.

2 early rolling safeties (in with merit)
one ED to a high target, in with merit and done.

2022 MCPS grad: 4, all RD. Accepted at all 4 with merit aid offers.

2025 grad had 16 on his list, had sent in 9 applications before ED result came back with a yes. Most were EAs and a few RDs with earlier (scholarship) deadlines. A lot of application fees down the drain, but what can you do.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Class of 2025: one rolling (so had admission to safety in hand), two EAs, one ED.

If you build your list thoughtfully, there is no reason to apply to more than 12.

Wrong.

DP, but I 100% agree with the PP.

If your kid is applying to more than 15 or so (and even that's a stretch), I'm going to think that either A) they were lazy and didn't run NPCs to find actually affordable + attainable schools; B) they were lazy and didn't do the work to find "very likely" schools they'd actually be good going to; C) you turned them into a prestige hunter. E.g. anyone whose kid applied to both Columbia AND Dartmouth, or Penn AND Brown — or, god forbid, every Ivy — did it wrong.

Anonymous wrote:2023: 20 (including 12 reaches, after ED1 deferral). At ivy.

2025: 22 (including 14 reaches, after ED1 deferral). Enrolled at T10.

Why so many reaches?

Anonymous wrote:Class of 2025: one rolling (so had admission to safety in hand), two EAs, one ED.

If you build your list thoughtfully, there is no reason to apply to more than 12.

Wrong.

DC 2024 applied to 8, got into 5. Attending a top 50 school in honors college, so not ivy or tippy top.

DC 2026 has a list of 12, but some have no supplemental essay other than the common app one, and kid is unsure of major. Also, weaker gpa and sats so will be test optional for some. They have 2-3 likelies but the outcome is a bit more up in the air.

Anonymous wrote:Both kids applied ED to schools ranked T10 to T20. Both colleges were first choice schools. They both got in. So one and done each. A very painless process.

Wish my kid's first choice offered ED. Sigh...

Both kids applied ED to schools ranked T10 to T20. Both colleges were first choice schools. They both got in. So one and done each. A very painless process.

Anonymous wrote:If you're a high stat kid and aiming for a T20 or Ivy, you will need to apply to more. The lesson from the Class of 2025 is that there are more high stat kids than room at many of these colleges.

Mine applied to 13 including 1 ED.
Accepted to 6 (all safeties and 1 target), Waitlisted at 3 (all target), Rejected at 4 (all ivys/reach)

His stats were above the threshhold for all 13 and he had pretty good (not great) ECs, as well as a long term job, and a research internship.

The landscape of college admissions now is more like a lottery - sometimes you just can't predict the outcome.

Not sure why this is considered a Class of 2025 thing. My Class of 2020 was told exactly this at some T20s. It’s been a fact for at least 10 years or more

SCEA to a HYP. Got in. To apply to others from our HS is a cardinal sin. So one and done.

39, currently attends Penn.

2022 grad: 1 ED, 4 EA - got into ED school and two of the EA schools, withdrew the other EA apps once ED decision came in

2025 grad: 1 rolling, 3 EA, got into all.

My kids only applied to in-state schools in Virginia that we could afford and each had a true safety on the list, so no need to apply to 10+. I definitely understand applying to more schools when trying to get into an Ivy or other highly selective colleges.

Older DC applied to 6 schools early action. Got into 5, including his one T20 reach. Didn't bother applying to the handful of RD schools after that. DD, class of 26, will apply to 7 EA with similar strategy with one T20 reach (same one) hoping to have similar outcome. Also has handful of RD schools she will apply to if necessary.