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Anonymous wrote:Absolute carnage from Princeton. It’s amazing

They are one of the holdouts of test optional. Yale, Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, Penn all went test required last year.

That leaned only 3 Ivies for low scorers to hide behind test optional this year - Columbia, Cornell and Princeton. For that reason - applications probably are higher than usual for the holdouts.

It will be easier in the future when they go back to test required.

I regret not penn ed

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, the only admits on Reddit are test optional kids from small towns. And a ton of rejections from the rest of the US with 1590+.

no dog in this fight but it's striking.

Those are the institutional priorities though. If you’ve done your research you would’ve known it’s always better to apply regular decision.

My kid is paranoid letters were bad,,,, a bunch of club’s captain ,,,,research 1550 plus all 5 rejected only hole is no awards and we don’t know if letters sucked all a IB

correction. 25% of the remaining seats left for mc kids.

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Anonymous wrote:1580, all As, 4.94 weighted, all 5's, highest rigor, rejected

How does a kid with this of rigor and stats not make it… unreal.
Poor kid.

Please folks, spread the word next year: unhooked top stats suburban kids are wasting an application applying SCEA. Forget about HYPSM and use your ED1 card; it’s the only one you’ll get.

I don't know. It really feels like if they just tell everyone the 25% of the unhooked mc kids to be admitted by lottery. It might make everyone feel better

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Anonymous wrote:1580, all As, 4.94 weighted, all 5's, highest rigor, rejected

How does a kid with this of rigor and stats not make it… unreal.
Poor kid.

Please folks, spread the word next year: unhooked top stats suburban kids are wasting an application applying SCEA. Forget about HYPSM and use your ED1 card; it’s the only one you’ll get.

Maybe they should just run lottery for mc kids

Anonymous wrote:1580, all As, 4.94 weighted, all 5's, highest rigor, rejected

How does a kid with this of rigor and stats not make it… unreal.
Poor kid.

Yeah, the only admits on Reddit are test optional kids from small towns. And a ton of rejections from the rest of the US with 1590+.

no dog in this fight but it's striking.

Anonymous wrote:It’s also worth noting that full-pay students are the ones effectively funding this support. I fully agree with helping low-SES students, but it feels unfair that full-pay families end up subsidizing people who only pretend to be poor.

And then there are kids on Reddit asking, “My parents didn’t go to college in the U.S.—am I first-gen?”

Seriously

AOs want to rub shoulders with the rich and famous and romanticize the poor. Urban professionals are… looked down on.

Anonymous wrote:It’s also worth noting that full-pay students are the ones effectively funding this support. I fully agree with helping low-SES students, but it feels unfair that full-pay families end up subsidizing people who only pretend to be poor.

And then there are kids on Reddit asking, “My parents didn’t go to college in the U.S.—am I first-gen?”

Seriously

+100
Agree

Absolute carnage from Princeton. It’s amazing

Anonymous wrote:One from our Maryland private, kid with an impressive theater background.

If you don’t mind me asking, what’s the student’s gender? The one I heard about was a high-stats student—a girl who ranked number one from our local public high school