Well, more schools may waive app fees in order to drive up apps.
But I didn’t say that it’s not crazy; just where I see college admissions headed.
^I can see that happening as well, PurpleTitan. Low income students will all get waivers and high stats students may get waivers regardless of income/SES at some schools.
I have a kid applying in 7 years. I hope these dire predictions turn out to be incorrect!
Why are legacies being described as Jewish? Have you ever seen legacies being described as catholic, Muslim, Protestant?
@educateddarcy you are 100 right! why is @eastcoascrazy describing legacies as “Jewish”? SERIOUSLY? You should limit your racist/antisemetic comments to inside your own home. there is no place on CC for it. That is completely INAPPROPRIATE.
OMG, thank you for someone to finally comment on this. I was beginning to lose hope. I really hope that eascoastcrazy edits their comment or the moderator removes it.
I thought it was descriptive, in the context of the sentence which names another ethnic group and more generally names a third group. I’m guessing the urms and Asian immigrants weren’t legacies and there were no wasp legacies?
Legacy has nothing to do with religion. Period. To describe their religious preference in this context is ridiculous and insulting. If it was in the context of getting into a catholic institution for diversity sake, I can accept that as a legitimate mention of religious preference.
I don’t know how it compares to other top schools, but Williams just issued a press release indicating that it had admitted 567 women and 592 men–a 49% to 51% ratio. This is at variance both to national enrollment figures–I’ve seen 57% women-- and Williams’ own enrolled numbers of 48.5% male to 51.5% female. Maybe they get a higher yield from females to account for the enrollment ratio.
I’ve also noticed anecdotally and by looking at results threads here that it’s admitted students’ stats seem higher than just a couple of years ago for some schools ranked 25-50 than it was for my kid who graduated HS 2012.
Back to an earlier branch of the conversation: I definitely misspoke since the topic was “safety” schools. I comment implied a wrong understanding.
I come here for an education on these matters. Our area of the country is underrepresented at elite schools. DS’s public schools is nearly 70% free/reduced lunch recipients. We know not one other soul who has applied for these schools.
@cardinal Fang “Jeez, 40 schools at (let’s be generous here) $75 a pop? That’s $6000 in application fees!”
It is only $3,000 CF. haha
Whoops, you’re right, @Much2learn.
CF, the math wasn’t complicated complicated enough for you. 
Lucky all our SAT days are long past.
I’ve been out of the country, and haven’t logged into CC for awhile. I just this morning saw the comments above. I’m so sorry to have offended anyone with my post earlier in the thread. All of the kids I wrote about, both those who were admitted and those who were not, are friends of my own kid. We live in a highly diverse neighborhood. My intention was merely to describe who was admitted and who was denied, not to insult anyone with those descriptions. Again, I am sincerely sorry.
Apology accepted!
A decade from now, which is how purpletitan posed it, the 40 apps will cost $6K #-o
eastcoascrazy, of your hundreds of posts, I have never noticed any mean or racist comments from you. In no way did I take your post on page one to be offensive. I thought your post was helpful, descriptive to the subject and knew that you were commenting on kids you knew from your area.