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How many people from your high school class got into ivies, mit, stanford, ctech
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Date: April 18th, 2018 4:58 PM Author: chrome prole theater stage My prole high school sent one once very like 10 years (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869418) |
Date: April 18th, 2018 5:00 PM Author: Vivacious hyperventilating orchestra pit friendly grandma Three in my class. Penn, Cornell, and the Ivy I went to. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869430) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:02 PM Author: chrome prole theater stage prestigious
Does that only happen in NY/NJ/CA/etc?
I don't think people realize how much it sucks going to shitty hs |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:03 PM Author: Vivacious hyperventilating orchestra pit friendly grandma This was at a generic public HS in the Midwest. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869447) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:04 PM Author: chrome prole theater stage Maybe there were heavy metals in the water where I grew up and everyone was retarded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869459) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:02 PM Author: razzle aqua site doctorate 2 to H, 1 to CalTech, 1 to Cornell I think. Another to U Chicago because it's a good UG nowadays EDIT: Also one to Wharton but he was a top-level swimmer so IDK if that counts |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:03 PM Author: flesh contagious chapel organic girlfriend class of 600. 3 to ivies. over 30 to state flagship (berkeley, michigan, virginia) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869453) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:04 PM Author: Insanely creepy dark useless brakes house Probably 10 out of a couple hundred class. All were indian or asian. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869462) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:06 PM Author: chrome prole theater stage How do they even know about the extracurriculars you need to cop top 10 ug.
were USAMO, intel, etc popular? |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:08 PM Author: Insanely creepy dark useless brakes house I dont know. I didnt know them. I just remember they announced where people were going to college at our graduation and all the indian names said they were going to yale and all the parents would start hushed talking and congratulating them in the auditorium. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869484) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:06 PM Author: mint codepig set From my class a few to Cornell. 1 legacy and the others were smart. 1 to Wharton. He's done really well. 2 to Yale but they were athletes. Year below us had 3 go to Harvard.
College prestige isn't a big thing in Buffalo and there are almost no Asians or Jews. Lots of people were happy to get a full scholly at, e.g., Alfred or Fordham and go for free. |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:09 PM Author: chrome prole theater stage something I don't think people understand is that if you go to prole high school, you can have 3.9, 2100+, be involved in shit, and get straight up ding'ed everywhere (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869492) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:10 PM Author: flesh contagious chapel organic girlfriend colleges love geographical diversity students from prole schools in prole states. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869498) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:12 PM Author: chrome prole theater stage I feel like that's mainly xo talk, not reality
could be wrong |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:12 PM Author: razzle aqua site doctorate cr I bet Alaskan high school classes have people going to 30+ states (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869509) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:37 PM Author: Stirring indigo elastic band brunch (guy who knows nothing) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869659) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 7:01 PM Author: bearded whorehouse telephone I don't think they love it. They just need enough to claim students from all 50 states. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35870104) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 7:47 AM Author: odious peach trailer park really tough guy Also not every prole high school is in a prole state (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35872811) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:11 PM Author: razzle aqua site doctorate I went to a decent public and had more ECs than could fit on the app, good test scores, decent grades, and got dinged from basically everywhere (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869503) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:13 PM Author: chrome prole theater stage why do you suppose that happened, brother (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869516) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:16 PM Author: razzle aqua site doctorate tbh I didn't realize how important college apps were so I didn't really try on my essays past the early action/decision ones. plus none of my ECs were "exceptional" - most "leadership" i showed was track team captain you'd still think a 3.8 unweighted/35 ACT could get into at least 1 T25 UG though |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:19 PM Author: chrome prole theater stage lol 35 is high af.
Did you start striving in college |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:20 PM Author: razzle aqua site doctorate I started "striving" this school year and it's shit pure shit. gonna stop in 2 weeks and chill for the rest of college I think another big factor is that I never took the SAT Math II which apparently everyone else did. Probably could have done well on that too despite math never being my strong suit |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:25 PM Author: chrome prole theater stage you a stem dood? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869584) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:26 PM Author: razzle aqua site doctorate nah econ. was originally considering stem but decided against it last minute for some reason (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869592) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:27 PM Author: chrome prole theater stage you will prob get nojerbed bro, I'd be careful.
What's your gameplan? |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:27 PM Author: razzle aqua site doctorate law school, lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869602) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:28 PM Author: chrome prole theater stage lol cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869613) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:29 PM Author: razzle aqua site doctorate considering taking the GRE and applying to econ masters also in case my LS admissions cycle doesn't pan out as well as I'd like but I think my GPA is probably too low to have a shot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869617) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:31 PM Author: chrome prole theater stage what options do you have with econ masters
Do those even exist? are they cash cow or research-based |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:34 PM Author: razzle aqua site doctorate I have no idea lmao, I've done 0 research on it I'm pretty good at standardized tests though so I'm pretty confident I could score 95% verbal without too much work and maybe 95% quant if I really applied myself |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:41 PM Author: chrome prole theater stage Oh I see.
You remind me of myself 5 years ago.
I feel pretty lucky that I randomly wondered into STEM because I think its the safest bet for ~115 iq bros, especially if your ug doesn't have good finance/consulting recruiting. LS is an option but xo makes it seem pretty hellish and the debt is obviously scary.
Anyway - just be careful, I've known some people significantly smarter than I am that have gotten screwed because they didn't plan shit carefully during undergrad. |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:45 PM Author: razzle aqua site doctorate I took all the AP sciences in HS and AP computer science and did fairly well but I didn't really care for any of them. I had 180 AP Bio and AP Chem teachers so class was always fun but I really didn't care that much about the content. Had a terrible Physics C teacher senior year which kind of turned me off of engineering. I've always enjoyed english/literature classes far more so I'd probably be happier pushing commas than shitcoding Econ has been more enjoyable this year but I have good professors so I don't know if that counts. I'm actually procrastinating an econ paper as we speak. Plus, if you go into econ out of a non-top school you're in it for the long haul. |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:48 PM Author: chrome prole theater stage Thats fair. Good luck brother (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869718) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:48 PM Author: razzle aqua site doctorate thanks friend (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869720) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:15 PM Author: Vivacious hyperventilating orchestra pit friendly grandma Somebody has to give up their spots for the sake of AA and it isn't going to be the scions of the American elite. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869526) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:32 PM Author: chrome prole theater stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869625) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 6:12 PM Author: Diverse Lavender Blood Rage Step-uncle's House (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869860) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:11 PM Author: rambunctious philosopher-king Admitted or went? I had admission to a lower Ivy but didn't go. Out of our class of 120, I'd say at least 10+ had Ivy or MIT/Stanford/Caltech. But back then, 3.3./1370 gets you Brown so... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869506) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:14 PM Author: chrome prole theater stage *bro poasting in his exeter tee* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869524) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:15 PM Author: mint codepig set (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869530) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:20 PM Author: rambunctious philosopher-king Upper end, arguably elite, Jesuit HS. One of my classmates cofounded (and had ~3% equity @ IPO) a major/billion dollar tech company. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869557) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:01 AM Author: bright library All the Ivies now have, what, 5% admissions rates.
Doubt I'd get in today.
Penn / Cornell were the easiest to get into in my day. Knew of students with 1200s scores who got into both although they were either AA or athletes. |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 11:16 AM Author: Avocado Harsh Becky Mediation (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35873937) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:12 PM Author: violent pontificating lodge candlestick maker i think we had 2 H, 1 S, maybe 1 PennSt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869510) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:12 PM Author: Geriatric soul-stirring den stain literally 0 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869513) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:13 PM Author: Impressive Drab Center Wagecucks 1 girl got into Cornell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869520) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 11:21 AM Author: Impressive Drab Center Wagecucks Another guy went to Amherst i think. After that, a lot of the smartest kids came from modest families and went to Rutgers or the college of new jersey on scholarship then went on to become engineers or doctors.
A few went to "good" liberal arts schools like Bucknell and Lehigh or public ivies.
Basically everyone else went to sTTTate U or communiTTTy college. |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:26 PM Author: pungent amethyst heaven One-third (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869595) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:28 PM Author: chrome prole theater stage -stuyvesant chad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869607) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:27 PM Author: Up-to-no-good racy theater ceo Probably over 40-50 people got into ivies (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869599) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:36 PM Author: Stirring indigo elastic band brunch 0 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35869651) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 5:45 PM Author: bull headed charismatic filthpig From a public school in Wisconsin, about 1-2 a year go to HYPSM
It's worth nothing that NOBODY goes to the lower ivies. They aren't even in the conversation. People will go to Northwestern all day long before a going to a non-HYP ivy |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 11:19 AM Author: Avocado Harsh Becky Mediation This is also true on the West Coast
People apply maybe to HYPSMC, then Berkeley/UCLA/other UCs. Nobody applies to lower Ivies. |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 6:09 PM Author: irradiated twinkling uncleanness Roughly 20-25% when I graduated (1999) and I believe that’s stayed fairly consistent. Here’s an old profile:
https://www.hunterpta.org/download?file=documents/HCHS-Profile-2012-2013.pdf |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 6:55 PM Author: chrome prole theater stage So are these students like 2 std dev above average iq? Or do they just have rich, well connected parents that raise them well and sign them up for prestigious ECs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35870087) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 7:21 PM Author: irradiated twinkling uncleanness Maybe 25% of the student body is rich. The rest are poor immigrants. Admissions is based on an SAT-like test offered only in 6th grade. It is race blind.
Another 50 students make it into the high school from the elementary school where admissions is based on IQ tests and interviews.
These students were prob the smartest people I’ve been around in my whole life. Most of them aren’t conventionally successfully and do super random things now. A lot of artists, social workers. Prob the two most famous recent alums are lin Manuel Miranda and Martin shrkeli.
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Date: April 18th, 2018 6:24 PM Author: histrionic private investor Only me (valedictorian) But my graduating class was <50 people lol |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 7:01 PM Author: bearded whorehouse telephone Some say he posts to this very day. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35870108) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 7:03 PM Author: Big chocolate space cumskin I think 2 to Penn, 1 to Cornell, like 3-4 to Columbia, 1 to Duke, 2 to ND, 1 to Naval Academy. Class of ~100 kids. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35870113) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 7:03 PM Author: Brass swashbuckling ratface everyone in the class went to HYP except me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35870120) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:08 PM Author: Cerebral Nursing Home One guy got into Harvard. Lol his dad went to Harvard, and principal made him class president regardless of votes to help him get in. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35870441) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 7:20 AM Author: Lime learning disabled rehab hunting ground 30-40 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35872751) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 7:44 AM Author: Beta Poppy Base Sound Barrier 0 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35872794) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 7:45 AM Author: odious peach trailer park really tough guy One. Princeton (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35872796) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:44 PM Author: Lime learning disabled rehab hunting ground Has anyone ever seen him since? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35874554) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 7:47 AM Author: adventurous cowardly gaping One girl to Penn Nursing, and me to Brown. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35872809) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 7:58 AM Author: Cerebral Nursing Home Lol Brown (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35872825) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:01 AM Author: Brass swashbuckling ratface (Howard alum) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35872832) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:04 AM Author: bright library Around 125 in my class. Second tier boarding school.
10-15 on average went to Ivies/Duke/Stanford. Half that to Penn.
Another 5 or so to AWS/Pomona
Around 40ish went to the rest of the top 25 LACs/universities between 15-30 on USNews.
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:07 AM Author: Brass swashbuckling ratface wow FORTY kids going to uberprestigious LITTLE IVIES like TUFTS or HAMILTON? OH WHAT A BOARDING SCHOOL! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35872844) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:11 AM Author: bright library Well, we were second tier. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35872853) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 11:33 AM Author: Avocado Harsh Becky Mediation lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35874064) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 11:33 AM Author: Avocado Harsh Becky Mediation Not to be mean, but WTF is the point of boarding school if you end up going to a shit college and/or make shit money? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35874067) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:41 PM Author: bright library Good question. I’ve wondered myself.
For many kids it’s a family tradition.
Regardless of college placement it’s all over the map where the students ended up in the long term. Many of the dullards who went to dull colleges have done very well. Even better than the Ivy bound kids. Some of the Ivy bound ended up working for NGOs or non profits or the arts and struggle to this day in NYC or Boston, while the stupid bros went into sales and make 400k and donate loyally to the alumni fund and will send their kids to boarding school. |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 11:13 AM Author: Translucent hairy legs Went to top tier prep school; about 25-30%. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35873901) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 11:18 AM Author: Avocado Harsh Becky Mediation Lower Ivies shouldn't really be put in the same category as Stanford/HYP/MIT/Caltech. It wasn't that hard to get into a lower Ivy even 10 years ago. Lots of people got into places like Penn/Cornell (but were rejected to schools like NU, top publics).
When I applied, Chicago had a greater than 50% acceptance rate...so your odds of getting in were super high. |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 11:19 AM Author: primrose menage liquid oxygen Yeah, median bros from my HS went to Chicago in the 90s. It wasn't considered anywhere near the same level as any Ivy (or Duke or Northwestern or even UC Berkeley). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35873961) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 11:22 AM Author: Avocado Harsh Becky Mediation Yeah, I still don't think much of it b/c it was so easy to get into and the people I've known who went there for undergrad are WEIRD as fuck (but not smarter than others). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35873981) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 11:25 AM Author: primrose menage liquid oxygen Yeah, same here. The few I've known were dorky, high-IQ bros who had good SAT scores but not great grades and basically no activities that colleges would care about. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35874011) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 11:27 AM Author: Avocado Harsh Becky Mediation I'm still wondering where the whole "Chicago is full of geniuses" idea came from. Just seems like a school with above average intelligence, but mediocre, kids.
Bar none, the schools with the smartest kids (and actual geniuses) that I've known IRL have come from MIT/Caltech. |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:46 PM Author: bearded whorehouse telephone Chicago out WUSTLed WUSTL. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35874568) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 11:18 AM Author: comical ocher affirmative action nobody in my high school class got into an Ivy - but I grew up in a part of the country where nobody cares about or applies to lower ivies. So we just applied to HYP and local schools.
I have classmates who went to top tier local private colleges that probably could have gotten into Brown or Cornell. |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 11:18 AM Author: primrose menage liquid oxygen About 20 out of a class of just under 100. 9 to HYPSM I think 10 or 11 to other Ivies, Duke, Chicago, Northwestern
This was the mid-90s.
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Date: April 19th, 2018 11:20 AM Author: Avocado Harsh Becky Mediation On the West Coast, people don't really apply to the lower Ivies. They just apply to maybe the top Ivies like HYP, Stanford, MIT, Caltech and the UCs. Or sometimes they only apply to Stanford and the UCs because they are intent on staying in California.
I think the focus on the Ivies is an East Coast thing. |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 11:23 AM Author: primrose menage liquid oxygen Depends where in CA. LA Jews from the Westside and Valley are all over Penn/Columbia. Many are legacies there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35873997) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 11:24 AM Author: Avocado Harsh Becky Mediation I'm from SF - so mainly just talking about people from NorCal.
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:46 PM Author: opaque voyeur Yeah, that's CR. My family is upper-class NorCal and nobody bats an eye at the Ivies. They're all obsessed with Stanford though (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35874571) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:52 PM Author: infuriating faggotry business firm This is CR. The strivers in NorCal are less ostentatious than those in SoCal. I went to school north of SF and had one friend that went to Annapolis and then the rest of us either went to UCs, and smaller California LACs or Catholics. I was a solid, above-average (though nothing special), dime-a-dozen white male applicant, so I didn't even bother to apply to any school outside of the UCs. I think I applied to Davis, Berkeley, UCLA and UCSD and that was it.
Our valedictorian was a legitimate genius, but an insanely lazy POS prole. (He was basically Good Will Hunting). I think he ended up dropping out of Sonoma State. |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:12 PM Author: Magenta public bath One athlete went to brown. No one else went anywhere of remote note (including myself). But this was a class of 47 in a town three hours from a town that was three hours from a city. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35874343) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:42 PM Author: Cruel-hearted Party Of The First Part Church Like 7-8% (to HYPSMC). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35874542) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:43 PM Author: submissive spectacular resort Boondocks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35874545) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:44 PM Author: opaque voyeur 6 in my class. Two were sports schollys, one was a lower ivy legacy, one was a Terrance Tao supergenius, one was a chill fratty bro, one was me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953119&forum_id=2#35874552) |