Anonymous
Post 02/01/2026 13:55     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
How 25 Harvard applications, 2 acceptances (from very high stats kids). I guess that makes sense. It shows you are evaluated in the context of your high school.
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2026 13:54     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:Their very top (#1) GPA kid (99.11, 1590, 17AP) got in UT, UVA, NYU only. What happened?


Might be a kid with NYU ties financially set for life. Not everyone is a prestige striver.
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2026 13:53     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:What's fascinating is that many of the most successful applicants are in the 95-96 GPA band and the tippy-top students are sometimes getting rejected everywhere.


Undersubscribed major, and ECs.
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2026 13:51     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Their very top (#1) GPA kid (99.11, 1590, 17AP) got in UT, UVA, NYU only. What happened?
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2026 13:48     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
What's fascinating is that many of the most successful applicants are in the 95-96 GPA band and the tippy-top students are sometimes getting rejected everywhere.

Anonymous
Post 02/01/2026 13:40     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Interesting to see the grade inflation.
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2026 13:33     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
I'm from the area and this is a very well respected high school. I am sure the multiple EDS are typos. They wouldn't do that.
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2026 13:21     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
20 cornell acceptees across 2 classes in a giant NY public school is very meh to me.
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2026 13:18     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:93.70, SAT 1320, 11AP, accepted by Chicago ED.

If you don't apply you'd never know.


With that SAT score, I would say there was a hook.


did you forget about test optional?
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2026 12:07     Subject: Re:Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This feels like extremely sensitive data that should not be available to people outside the school’s college counseling office. I’m also not sure what purpose this data serves to DCUM parents except for giving them false hope.


I agree is seems extremely sensitive. I don't understand your point about false hope though.


OP frames this school as if it is some random NY public high school. It is in a well-known, very high-income area outside of NYC. Most people would consider this a bottom-tier public feeder; as such, it is misleading to think that the admissions results of kids with low-ish stats from this school can happen at any suburban public HS.


My read of OP’s post is that college admissions is a holistic process. Low-ish gpa will not get you there unless there are something else. The data demonstrates it well. A multi-factor process.

Yes. Rigor is another factor.

Page 4 (top 10% band):
96.84 and 96.82, low rigor 8AP and 7AP, go to SUNY.
Other kids on the same page with higher rigor and SAT goes to Cornell, Emory, UM
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2026 00:43     Subject: Re:Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This feels like extremely sensitive data that should not be available to people outside the school’s college counseling office. I’m also not sure what purpose this data serves to DCUM parents except for giving them false hope.


How is this giving anyone false hope? What I’m seeing is a bunch of kids with 1600 SAT and straight A GPAs getting rejected.


A PP posted a list of lower GPAs bagging top school acceptances.


If you look at the neighbors of those kids where they are going, you will understand that PP’s point.
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2026 00:39     Subject: Re:Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This feels like extremely sensitive data that should not be available to people outside the school’s college counseling office. I’m also not sure what purpose this data serves to DCUM parents except for giving them false hope.


I agree is seems extremely sensitive. I don't understand your point about false hope though.


OP frames this school as if it is some random NY public high school. It is in a well-known, very high-income area outside of NYC. Most people would consider this a bottom-tier public feeder; as such, it is misleading to think that the admissions results of kids with low-ish stats from this school can happen at any suburban public HS.


Your chances of admissions are probably better from a random public school than from a cutthroat school like this one.
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2026 00:38     Subject: Re:Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This feels like extremely sensitive data that should not be available to people outside the school’s college counseling office. I’m also not sure what purpose this data serves to DCUM parents except for giving them false hope.


How is this giving anyone false hope? What I’m seeing is a bunch of kids with 1600 SAT and straight A GPAs getting rejected.


A PP posted a list of lower GPAs bagging top school acceptances.
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2026 00:35     Subject: Re:Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:This feels like extremely sensitive data that should not be available to people outside the school’s college counseling office. I’m also not sure what purpose this data serves to DCUM parents except for giving them false hope.


How is this giving anyone false hope? What I’m seeing is a bunch of kids with 1600 SAT and straight A GPAs getting rejected.
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2026 00:26     Subject: Test score and GPA from a large NY suburban public school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's a Cornell feeder. Very very well known to AO. Extremely well-prepared kids.


I am a bit shocked at how many ED are to Cornell, Duke and NYU


Its a good well known school.