Anonymous wrote:Because they were mostly settled, not reaches that applied this year

DP and just curious, but what does "mostly settled" mean in this context?

Because they were mostly settled, not reaches that applied this year

Anonymous wrote:How many did Northwestern take this year from SFS? I assume it was the majority of those who applied ED?

There were some acceptances, some deferrals and a bunch of denials. Why would you assume the majority of people applying to single digit acceptance school would gain admission?

How many did Northwestern take this year from SFS? I assume it was the majority of those who applied ED?

A few years back, northwestern took 4-5 SFS kids during ED.

Any sense of how many kids from FCPS are applying RD to Northwestern?

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Correct. No top school is going to admit 12-15 kids from one high school. They max out at about 5, more likely at 2 per school--even though the other kids from that school may be just as qualified. Look at the Instagram admit accounts or alumni magazines from the past 5 years (which list where kids are going to college)---this will prove my point.
Penn may admit 10 kids TOTAL from DC. They're not admitting all 10 from Sidwell or all 10 from GDS. They will take 2 from each (and 1 from Walls and 2 from NCS and 1 from DCI... etc. (numbers made up)). It's common sense that if 10 other kids are applying ED to an good college from your private high school then your odds at that school are REALLY LOW.
That's why I think it's really weird that all those kids wasted their ED spot on the same schools. The vast majority are not getting in. They will lose their spot to a classmate.

This is wrong. I know for a fact that Yale admitted 11 kids from SFS about 5 years ago. STA regularly gets 6-10 kids into UChicago. Both of these are "top schools."

But not ED. That was a mix of ED and RD.

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Anonymous wrote:They're out!!!!

And DD’s BFF is in after an otherwise tough week for some of her friends - thrilled!

Congrats!!! I'm sure it's so well deserved

Anonymous wrote:They're out!!!!

And DD’s BFF is in after an otherwise tough week for some of her friends - thrilled!

Correct. No top school is going to admit 12-15 kids from one high school. They max out at about 5, more likely at 2 per school--even though the other kids from that school may be just as qualified. Look at the Instagram admit accounts or alumni magazines from the past 5 years (which list where kids are going to college)---this will prove my point.
Penn may admit 10 kids TOTAL from DC. They're not admitting all 10 from Sidwell or all 10 from GDS. They will take 2 from each (and 1 from Walls and 2 from NCS and 1 from DCI... etc. (numbers made up)). It's common sense that if 10 other kids are applying ED to an good college from your private high school then your odds at that school are REALLY LOW.
That's why I think it's really weird that all those kids wasted their ED spot on the same schools. The vast majority are not getting in. They will lose their spot to a classmate.

This is wrong. I know for a fact that Yale admitted 11 kids from SFS about 5 years ago. STA regularly gets 6-10 kids into UChicago. Both of these are "top schools."

They're out!!!!

It's been confirmed Northwestern is releasing ED decisions next Friday the 17th.

The college guidance counselors can try to be upfront, but they certainly aren't going to disclose how many classmates are applying to the same school and they won't cast odds. What they will do is try to encourage the student to consider alternatives. At the same time, if there are 6 alumni children from that grade and 2 athletes and 2 other hooks, all 10 will consider their odds to be good.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is likely in that same grade. If the estimates are correct, there were double digit applications each to Northwesterm. Harvard, Yale, Penn, Chicago - that is about half the class applying ED to 5 schools.

Huh. So odds are probably pretty good for top students applying outside of these schools. Why did so many kids waste their ED spot on what is a total crap shoot? those colleges are not going to take more than 3-5 (very max) from any one private (even the top privates)

What? No, this isn't true at all.

PP pulled that specific 3-5 number out of the air but common sense tells one that a college isn't going to accept a large number of ed applicants all from the same HS, so it does impact Student A if he applies ED to NW and 15 other students from his class do the same (I am not sure where the school college counselor was in all of this. I know they can't "force" anything but you'd think that alerting the students to how many others were applying ED to NW would have caused some to shift ED elsewhere).

Correct. No top school is going to admit 12-15 kids from one high school. They max out at about 5, more likely at 2 per school--even though the other kids from that school may be just as qualified. Look at the Instagram admit accounts or alumni magazines from the past 5 years (which list where kids are going to college)---this will prove my point.
Penn may admit 10 kids TOTAL from DC. They're not admitting all 10 from Sidwell or all 10 from GDS. They will take 2 from each (and 1 from Walls and 2 from NCS and 1 from DCI... etc. (numbers made up)). It's common sense that if 10 other kids are applying ED to an good college from your private high school then your odds at that school are REALLY LOW.
That's why I think it's really weird that all those kids wasted their ED spot on the same schools. The vast majority are not getting in. They will lose their spot to a classmate.

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Anonymous wrote:They are not going to take a majority of those ED applicants from the same school, at least not in the ED round. It is likely, if there are 10-15 applicants from the same school, maybe 2-3 will get in ED and others deferred or denied.

Where are you getting this info? This is not consistent with what I know from other schools in past cycles. I also am not following your logic on why kids would be wasting their ED around by applying.

If 20 kids apply ED from the same high school to the same college, there is almost no way that college is taking the majority (ie 11 or even 5) of those applicants. The college guidance offices can steer kids, suggest alternatives etc, but ultimately, the kids decide where they want to apply. The only schools I know of who won't permit this to happen are some of the elite NE boarding schools, who will basically pick and choose who gets to ED where based on the applicant composition and their knowledge of the university's wants/needs.