Anonymous
11/10/2021 21:37
Subject: do college admissions get ugly at the Big3 when all the parents are Ivy grads?
Anonymous wrote:Parent at Big 3 that went to state school and I can buy and sell all of my class parents.
When they get out of line I have to not so subtlely remind them of it.
I find them amusing.
You must be so proud.
Anonymous
11/10/2021 21:23
Subject: do college admissions get ugly at the Big3 when all the parents are Ivy grads?
Parent at Big 3 that went to state school and I can buy and sell all of my class parents.
When they get out of line I have to not so subtlely remind them of it.
I find them amusing.
When they get out of line I have to not so subtlely remind them of it.
I find them amusing.
Anonymous
11/10/2021 18:35
Subject: do college admissions get ugly at the Big3 when all the parents are Ivy grads?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Legacy doesn't go that far anymore, and so what you see at the Big 3 schools is a lot of "grooming" of kids (tutoring, test prep, travel sports) to have the right profile. For Ivies that's superstar academics (top 3-4 kids in the class), or excellent stats plus recruitable athlete, or excellent stats plus URM, or excellent stats plus parents have mega-millions. I can't think of a single Ivy admit at my kid's school last year who didn't fall into one of those categories.
Do you really think there are only a small handful of kids from "big3" schools that go to Ivy's? Because that really wouldn't be close to accurate. More like 25-35% of the class, and that is before you get to NESCAC/Stanford/Chicago and other top schools.
Lol. What year are you posting from? It's not 35% of the class. And HYPS are often one each, per school.
Perhaps not 35% of the class but definitely more than 1 HYP per school. I see about 4 to 5 to Harvard, I’ve seen 8 to Penn, etc.
what school is this?
Enquiring minds want to know.
Not NCS or STA over the past 2 years as I've seen both these lists each year. It's 0-2 to each of HYPS and Penn per year.
I don't think it's GDS. They get a few Harvards each year but last year was only 2.
Is it Sidwell? Again, I don't think so.
I think your estimates are 5-10 years old.
Yes. It’s Sidwell.
How many Sidwell kids were accepted into Harvard in class 2021?
2020 was 4: 1 URM, 2 legacy, 1 plain old smart kid.
Actually for 2020....it was athlete not URM.
How about 2021?
Anonymous
11/10/2021 18:00
Subject: do college admissions get ugly at the Big3 when all the parents are Ivy grads?
STA 2021 Harvard: one URM who is also VIPs child, one smart kid.
Anonymous
11/10/2021 17:51
Subject: do college admissions get ugly at the Big3 when all the parents are Ivy grads?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Legacy doesn't go that far anymore, and so what you see at the Big 3 schools is a lot of "grooming" of kids (tutoring, test prep, travel sports) to have the right profile. For Ivies that's superstar academics (top 3-4 kids in the class), or excellent stats plus recruitable athlete, or excellent stats plus URM, or excellent stats plus parents have mega-millions. I can't think of a single Ivy admit at my kid's school last year who didn't fall into one of those categories.
Do you really think there are only a small handful of kids from "big3" schools that go to Ivy's? Because that really wouldn't be close to accurate. More like 25-35% of the class, and that is before you get to NESCAC/Stanford/Chicago and other top schools.
Lol. What year are you posting from? It's not 35% of the class. And HYPS are often one each, per school.
Perhaps not 35% of the class but definitely more than 1 HYP per school. I see about 4 to 5 to Harvard, I’ve seen 8 to Penn, etc.
what school is this?
Enquiring minds want to know.
Not NCS or STA over the past 2 years as I've seen both these lists each year. It's 0-2 to each of HYPS and Penn per year.
I don't think it's GDS. They get a few Harvards each year but last year was only 2.
Is it Sidwell? Again, I don't think so.
I think your estimates are 5-10 years old.
Yes. It’s Sidwell.
How many Sidwell kids were accepted into Harvard in class 2021?
2020 was 4: 1 URM, 2 legacy, 1 plain old smart kid.
Actually for 2020....it was athlete not URM.
Anonymous
11/10/2021 17:50
Subject: do college admissions get ugly at the Big3 when all the parents are Ivy grads?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Legacy doesn't go that far anymore, and so what you see at the Big 3 schools is a lot of "grooming" of kids (tutoring, test prep, travel sports) to have the right profile. For Ivies that's superstar academics (top 3-4 kids in the class), or excellent stats plus recruitable athlete, or excellent stats plus URM, or excellent stats plus parents have mega-millions. I can't think of a single Ivy admit at my kid's school last year who didn't fall into one of those categories.
Do you really think there are only a small handful of kids from "big3" schools that go to Ivy's? Because that really wouldn't be close to accurate. More like 25-35% of the class, and that is before you get to NESCAC/Stanford/Chicago and other top schools.
Lol. What year are you posting from? It's not 35% of the class. And HYPS are often one each, per school.
Perhaps not 35% of the class but definitely more than 1 HYP per school. I see about 4 to 5 to Harvard, I’ve seen 8 to Penn, etc.
what school is this?
Not NCS or STA over the past 2 years as I've seen both these lists each year. It's 0-2 to each of HYPS and Penn per year.
I don't think it's GDS. They get a few Harvards each year but last year was only 2.
Is it Sidwell? Again, I don't think so.
I think your estimates are 5-10 years old.
I just looked at an incomplete Sidwell list from 2020:
23 to Ivys
38 to top national universities like Stanford/CMU/Emory/USC
29 to tops SLACs (NESCAC/Pomona type schools)
17 to top publics (Michigan/UCLA/UT/W&M/Cal/UVA)
Is this list public somewhere?
nope. sidwell parent here and no idea where to find this information. it would be interesting to see a list. so if you can tell us where to find it, that would be great.
Anonymous
11/10/2021 17:28
Subject: do college admissions get ugly at the Big3 when all the parents are Ivy grads?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Legacy doesn't go that far anymore, and so what you see at the Big 3 schools is a lot of "grooming" of kids (tutoring, test prep, travel sports) to have the right profile. For Ivies that's superstar academics (top 3-4 kids in the class), or excellent stats plus recruitable athlete, or excellent stats plus URM, or excellent stats plus parents have mega-millions. I can't think of a single Ivy admit at my kid's school last year who didn't fall into one of those categories.
Do you really think there are only a small handful of kids from "big3" schools that go to Ivy's? Because that really wouldn't be close to accurate. More like 25-35% of the class, and that is before you get to NESCAC/Stanford/Chicago and other top schools.
Lol. What year are you posting from? It's not 35% of the class. And HYPS are often one each, per school.
Perhaps not 35% of the class but definitely more than 1 HYP per school. I see about 4 to 5 to Harvard, I’ve seen 8 to Penn, etc.
what school is this?
Enquiring minds want to know.
Not NCS or STA over the past 2 years as I've seen both these lists each year. It's 0-2 to each of HYPS and Penn per year.
I don't think it's GDS. They get a few Harvards each year but last year was only 2.
Is it Sidwell? Again, I don't think so.
I think your estimates are 5-10 years old.
Yes. It’s Sidwell.
How many Sidwell kids were accepted into Harvard in class 2021?
2020 was 4: 1 URM, 2 legacy, 1 plain old smart kid.
Anonymous
11/10/2021 17:10
Subject: do college admissions get ugly at the Big3 when all the parents are Ivy grads?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Legacy doesn't go that far anymore, and so what you see at the Big 3 schools is a lot of "grooming" of kids (tutoring, test prep, travel sports) to have the right profile. For Ivies that's superstar academics (top 3-4 kids in the class), or excellent stats plus recruitable athlete, or excellent stats plus URM, or excellent stats plus parents have mega-millions. I can't think of a single Ivy admit at my kid's school last year who didn't fall into one of those categories.
Do you really think there are only a small handful of kids from "big3" schools that go to Ivy's? Because that really wouldn't be close to accurate. More like 25-35% of the class, and that is before you get to NESCAC/Stanford/Chicago and other top schools.
Lol. What year are you posting from? It's not 35% of the class. And HYPS are often one each, per school.
Perhaps not 35% of the class but definitely more than 1 HYP per school. I see about 4 to 5 to Harvard, I’ve seen 8 to Penn, etc.
what school is this?
Enquiring minds want to know.
Not NCS or STA over the past 2 years as I've seen both these lists each year. It's 0-2 to each of HYPS and Penn per year.
I don't think it's GDS. They get a few Harvards each year but last year was only 2.
Is it Sidwell? Again, I don't think so.
I think your estimates are 5-10 years old.
Yes. It’s Sidwell.
How many Sidwell kids were accepted into Harvard in class 2021?
Anonymous
11/10/2021 17:00
Subject: Re:do college admissions get ugly at the Big3 when all the parents are Ivy grads?
Anonymous wrote:[I've seen it a little more engineered than that - CCO " forgeting" to submit things on time on a very bright but unhooked kid OR ooops, by mistake " AP Physics is not available to you because it's full and we seem to have not received your class selection request for that class"
I find this hard to believe. At which school is it supposedly happening? DC would want nothing to di with a place like that!
Anonymous
11/10/2021 16:01
Subject: do college admissions get ugly at the Big3 when all the parents are Ivy grads?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Legacy doesn't go that far anymore, and so what you see at the Big 3 schools is a lot of "grooming" of kids (tutoring, test prep, travel sports) to have the right profile. For Ivies that's superstar academics (top 3-4 kids in the class), or excellent stats plus recruitable athlete, or excellent stats plus URM, or excellent stats plus parents have mega-millions. I can't think of a single Ivy admit at my kid's school last year who didn't fall into one of those categories.
Do you really think there are only a small handful of kids from "big3" schools that go to Ivy's? Because that really wouldn't be close to accurate. More like 25-35% of the class, and that is before you get to NESCAC/Stanford/Chicago and other top schools.
Lol. What year are you posting from? It's not 35% of the class. And HYPS are often one each, per school.
Perhaps not 35% of the class but definitely more than 1 HYP per school. I see about 4 to 5 to Harvard, I’ve seen 8 to Penn, etc.
what school is this?
Not NCS or STA over the past 2 years as I've seen both these lists each year. It's 0-2 to each of HYPS and Penn per year.
I don't think it's GDS. They get a few Harvards each year but last year was only 2.
Is it Sidwell? Again, I don't think so.
I think your estimates are 5-10 years old.
Yes. It’s Sidwell.
How many Sidwell kids were accepted into Harvard in class 2021?
*high school graduation class 2021
Anonymous
11/10/2021 15:59
Subject: do college admissions get ugly at the Big3 when all the parents are Ivy grads?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Legacy doesn't go that far anymore, and so what you see at the Big 3 schools is a lot of "grooming" of kids (tutoring, test prep, travel sports) to have the right profile. For Ivies that's superstar academics (top 3-4 kids in the class), or excellent stats plus recruitable athlete, or excellent stats plus URM, or excellent stats plus parents have mega-millions. I can't think of a single Ivy admit at my kid's school last year who didn't fall into one of those categories.
Do you really think there are only a small handful of kids from "big3" schools that go to Ivy's? Because that really wouldn't be close to accurate. More like 25-35% of the class, and that is before you get to NESCAC/Stanford/Chicago and other top schools.
Lol. What year are you posting from? It's not 35% of the class. And HYPS are often one each, per school.
Perhaps not 35% of the class but definitely more than 1 HYP per school. I see about 4 to 5 to Harvard, I’ve seen 8 to Penn, etc.
what school is this?
Not NCS or STA over the past 2 years as I've seen both these lists each year. It's 0-2 to each of HYPS and Penn per year.
I don't think it's GDS. They get a few Harvards each year but last year was only 2.
Is it Sidwell? Again, I don't think so.
I think your estimates are 5-10 years old.
Yes. It’s Sidwell.
How many Sidwell kids were accepted into Harvard in class 2021?
Anonymous
11/10/2021 14:54
Subject: do college admissions get ugly at the Big3 when all the parents are Ivy grads?
Exactly. So We have now heard from STA and Sidwell.
It is silly to suggest there is only one person admitted to any of these colleges from these independent schools.
It is silly to suggest there is only one person admitted to any of these colleges from these independent schools.
Anonymous
11/10/2021 14:53
Subject: do college admissions get ugly at the Big3 when all the parents are Ivy grads?
.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Legacy doesn't go that far anymore, and so what you see at the Big 3 schools is a lot of "grooming" of kids (tutoring, test prep, travel sports) to have the right profile. For Ivies that's superstar academics (top 3-4 kids in the class), or excellent stats plus recruitable athlete, or excellent stats plus URM, or excellent stats plus parents have mega-millions. I can't think of a single Ivy admit at my kid's school last year who didn't fall into one of those categories.
Do you really think there are only a small handful of kids from "big3" schools that go to Ivy's? Because that really wouldn't be close to accurate. More like 25-35% of the class, and that is before you get to NESCAC/Stanford/Chicago and other top schools.
Lol. What year are you posting from? It's not 35% of the class. And HYPS are often one each, per school.
Perhaps not 35% of the class but definitely more than 1 HYP per school. I see about 4 to 5 to Harvard, I’ve seen 8 to Penn, etc.
what school is this?
Not NCS or STA over the past 2 years as I've seen both these lists each year. It's 0-2 to each of HYPS and Penn per year.
I don't think it's GDS. They get a few Harvards each year but last year was only 2.
Is it Sidwell? Again, I don't think so.
I think your estimates are 5-10 years old.
I just looked at an incomplete Sidwell list from 2020:
23 to Ivys
38 to top national universities like Stanford/CMU/Emory/USC
29 to tops SLACs (NESCAC/Pomona type schools)
17 to top publics (Michigan/UCLA/UT/W&M/Cal/UVA)
Huh? STA had 5 to HYP last year (which might be on the low side).
Yeah, it was 5 total Across 3 schools . Previous poster was saying 5 to harvard alone.
Anonymous
11/10/2021 14:49
Subject: do college admissions get ugly at the Big3 when all the parents are Ivy grads?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Legacy doesn't go that far anymore, and so what you see at the Big 3 schools is a lot of "grooming" of kids (tutoring, test prep, travel sports) to have the right profile. For Ivies that's superstar academics (top 3-4 kids in the class), or excellent stats plus recruitable athlete, or excellent stats plus URM, or excellent stats plus parents have mega-millions. I can't think of a single Ivy admit at my kid's school last year who didn't fall into one of those categories.
Do you really think there are only a small handful of kids from "big3" schools that go to Ivy's? Because that really wouldn't be close to accurate. More like 25-35% of the class, and that is before you get to NESCAC/Stanford/Chicago and other top schools.
Lol. What year are you posting from? It's not 35% of the class. And HYPS are often one each, per school.
Perhaps not 35% of the class but definitely more than 1 HYP per school. I see about 4 to 5 to Harvard, I’ve seen 8 to Penn, etc.
what school is this?
Not NCS or STA over the past 2 years as I've seen both these lists each year. It's 0-2 to each of HYPS and Penn per year.
I don't think it's GDS. They get a few Harvards each year but last year was only 2.
Is it Sidwell? Again, I don't think so.
I think your estimates are 5-10 years old.
I just looked at an incomplete Sidwell list from 2020:
23 to Ivys
38 to top national universities like Stanford/CMU/Emory/USC
29 to tops SLACs (NESCAC/Pomona type schools)
17 to top publics (Michigan/UCLA/UT/W&M/Cal/UVA)
Huh? STA had 5 to HYP last year (which might be on the low side).
Anonymous
11/10/2021 14:45
Subject: do college admissions get ugly at the Big3 when all the parents are Ivy grads?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Legacy doesn't go that far anymore, and so what you see at the Big 3 schools is a lot of "grooming" of kids (tutoring, test prep, travel sports) to have the right profile. For Ivies that's superstar academics (top 3-4 kids in the class), or excellent stats plus recruitable athlete, or excellent stats plus URM, or excellent stats plus parents have mega-millions. I can't think of a single Ivy admit at my kid's school last year who didn't fall into one of those categories.
Do you really think there are only a small handful of kids from "big3" schools that go to Ivy's? Because that really wouldn't be close to accurate. More like 25-35% of the class, and that is before you get to NESCAC/Stanford/Chicago and other top schools.
I didn't say that at all. I listed categories of kids. Last year about 20% of my kid's Big 3 class went to Ivies. Plus another 15-20% to equivalents like Chicago, Duke, Williams.