Anonymous
Post 10/02/2025 10:27     Subject: Where do high stats students end up
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:T20-T25. State honors colleges.

Depends on major -- maybe a T10 if/where there's a specialty program that aligns well with student's interest and ECs.


USC, NYU, BU, BC, Tufts and Northeastern also have ton of high stat kids.


+100


NOT Northeastern due to extreme yield protection
Anonymous
Post 10/02/2025 10:24     Subject: Where do high stats students end up
Anonymous wrote:In California, kids like this end up at Berkeley, or UCLA if they have a preference for Southern CA.

On the East Coast, similar story--honors colleges and state flagships, or where they get a lot of merit/full merit rides. Some will also end up at specialized programs like 7 year medical programs if that aligns with their interests.


Just fly over the Midwest why don't you?
Anonymous
Post 10/02/2025 00:08     Subject: Where do high stats students end up
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A lot of them are heading south to the SEC these days. Amazing college experience and amazing outcomes.


Amazing outcomes where? Do they have to stay in the south or can they have amazing outcomes in NYC, DC or Boston after college in the SEC?


Most of them stay in the South by choice. They could get jobs in NYC, DC, or Boston, but why would they want to? Sure, their $250k salary in NYC might only be $170k in Jacksonville, Greenville, or Mobile, but for the same money they'd be spending each month to live in a shoebox flat in Manhattan and ride the subway to work, they can have a 3,000 square foot house with a manicured lawn and drive a Bimmer. Around the same time their NYC counterparts are starting to feel financially secure enough to upgrade to a SFH (or more realistically a townhouse/condo) in Weehawken or Westchester County, the SEC bro is looking to close on a vacation beach house on 30A. They also enjoy better weather, work/life balance, and women. The world doesn't revolve around the Acela corridor.


Greenville, SC?! Great place to raise kids! Thriving downtown arts scene, pretty decent symphony, and two of the best steakhouses in the state. By the time you're 35 you have your kids in the local christian academy and a nice little place down in Hilton Head, within walking distance of Bubba's Burgers and Fried Seafood. Who wants to live in crummy, overpriced NYC, with all the rats? Send your kids to Dalton and Brown, mine will be doing kegstands at Clemson and then transition into that cozy insurance gig we've got lined up for him. Boats, jet skis, big trucks, 42 oz steaks: all day, every day.


If there isn’t any good BBQ, I’m not interested.
Anonymous
Post 10/01/2025 23:37     Subject: Where do high stats students end up
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Where do high stats students end up?

Generally working for the captain of the lacrosse team or the Chad-bro president of Sigma Nu.

So last century. Chad bros are mostly unemployed losers these days.


You don’t get out much.
Anonymous
Post 10/01/2025 22:28     Subject: Where do high stats students end up
Anonymous wrote:Where do high stats students end up?

Generally working for the captain of the lacrosse team or the Chad-bro president of Sigma Nu.

So last century. Chad bros are mostly unemployed losers these days.
Anonymous
Post 10/01/2025 22:18     Subject: Where do high stats students end up
If from public high school, I would say the high stats kids end up at top flagships and sometimes cornell.
Anonymous
Post 10/01/2025 22:11     Subject: Where do high stats students end up
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A lot of them are heading south to the SEC these days. Amazing college experience and amazing outcomes.


Amazing outcomes where? Do they have to stay in the south or can they have amazing outcomes in NYC, DC or Boston after college in the SEC?


Most of them stay in the South by choice. They could get jobs in NYC, DC, or Boston, but why would they want to? Sure, their $250k salary in NYC might only be $170k in Jacksonville, Greenville, or Mobile, but for the same money they'd be spending each month to live in a shoebox flat in Manhattan and ride the subway to work, they can have a 3,000 square foot house with a manicured lawn and drive a Bimmer. Around the same time their NYC counterparts are starting to feel financially secure enough to upgrade to a SFH (or more realistically a townhouse/condo) in Weehawken or Westchester County, the SEC bro is looking to close on a vacation beach house on 30A. They also enjoy better weather, work/life balance, and women. The world doesn't revolve around the Acela corridor.


Greenville, SC?! Great place to raise kids! Thriving downtown arts scene, pretty decent symphony, and two of the best steakhouses in the state. By the time you're 35 you have your kids in the local christian academy and a nice little place down in Hilton Head, within walking distance of Bubba's Burgers and Fried Seafood. Who wants to live in crummy, overpriced NYC, with all the rats? Send your kids to Dalton and Brown, mine will be doing kegstands at Clemson and then transition into that cozy insurance gig we've got lined up for him. Boats, jet skis, big trucks, 42 oz steaks: all day, every day.
Anonymous
Post 10/01/2025 10:55     Subject: Where do high stats students end up
Anonymous wrote:Where do high stats students end up?

Generally working for the captain of the lacrosse team or the Chad-bro president of Sigma Nu.


The smartest kids will walk circles around Chad while he’s home in his subdivision with a beer belly.
Anonymous
Post 10/01/2025 10:50     Subject: Where do high stats students end up
This is my kid. Would be applying to Northwestern, but it doesn’t consider siblings in college when determining FA, so it’s out.
Applying Wash U level schools and WASPs. (Trying to avoid crazy intense schools and Greek-heavy schools.)
Anonymous
Post 10/01/2025 10:30     Subject: Where do high stats students end up
Where do high stats students end up?

Generally working for the captain of the lacrosse team or the Chad-bro president of Sigma Nu.
Anonymous
Post 10/01/2025 10:25     Subject: Where do high stats students end up
The smartest kids at our school end up at our public flagship. The ones with the most money go private.
Anonymous
Post 10/01/2025 08:25     Subject: Where do high stats students end up
Anonymous wrote:Those are actually pretty good ECs especially considering those academic stats.
Harvard Yale Princeton Stanford are just ridiculous for anyone without some hook but I think any of the other top schools you’d have a realistic shot. Pick the favorite and ED, then expect to submit widely as reaches with some targets that they’d feel comfortable with.
This really is a strong application — don’t let people get you down. Being a 4 year varsity athlete while getting those grades/scores in those classes is not all that common actually.


Agree. OP, your kid should apply to the schools that appeal to him, ensuring that he has at least a couple likelies that he’d be happy to attend.

And of course as others have said, this is about HS context. At our public HS, kids like this are applying to and often getting admitted to the most selective schools. But also as others have said, not all of them want those schools, so many are happily attending state schools.