<p>Wow, can’t believe I just saw this (one month old thread) :o</p>
<p>Nobody’s going to read this probably but oh well:
Brooklyn Tech has about 1200+ per grade level so… (1200+ seniors applying to college)</p>
<p>And regarding the Princeton issue raised in page 5, I think? Lol well I heard this somewhere… Not sure if I remembered it correctly but in NYC there’s like 3 really well known Specialized High Schools and the 1st one is Stuyvesant. Princeton usually takes students from there and doesn’t really like Tech students that much since they’re like “Stuy-Rejects” </p>
<p>Princeton just doesn’t have high regards for Brooklyn Tech students. </p>
<p>adchang, I’m surprised that you felt that way after reviewing the results.
I felt sorry for all those kids grinding through 10 or more APs and still getting rejected.</p>
<p>It depends on what high school you go to. You may have a better records, but your school might not have the credibility or the structure. Did you see that it seemed everyone had a leadership position due to perhaps a huge number of existing EC clubs.</p>
<p>SVM, I think I feel sorry for the kids who have taken a really hard schedule and had almost no chance at Cal or UCLA unless they had a 4.7 weighted gpa. Almost a hard line there. Then to add insult to injury virtually none of those accepted actually attended. What is the intention here? SVM, do the kids at your local High Schools understand how high the stakes have been raised for public education. It would appear that if a student did not take many aps in order to max out their weighted GPA, they are DOA to Cal and UCLA.</p>
<p>I think that the students I know understand this pretty well.
It’s still a shock to people like my husband, a UCLA grad who really could not believe how much admission selectivity had changed until I showed him data like this (especially for USC, given his bias!).</p>
<p>What high school you go to works both ways. Our high school (about 40 minutes away from this one) is more “diverse” or “lower-performing” than this particular high school. A lot of kids with lower stats got into Cal, UCLA, etc… but kids with higher stats were denied by USC and other privates.</p>
<p>I was fiddling around today and found that our other local high school also posts some Naviance data publicly. I found this on Google so I’m pretty sure they don’t care who reads it.</p>
<p>Thanks Bovertine! I didn’t see this data on the PV website - my daughter is a Sea King. This data is very informative, but I noticed an error for Brigham Young University. It shows no kids attending, but I know in fact that there are four who are attending from the 2010 class. I wonder if there are other errors. I’ve noticed lots of kids going to University of Oregon, which is pretty expensive for an OOS.</p>
<p>938 got denied by UC Irvine but got into stanford o.o</p>
<p>@nightchef: i only had a 2260 (but 4.0 gpa unweighted) and absolutely absolutely no hooks, and yet i got in. and i’m chinese/asian, so that couldn’t have helped</p>
<p>i don’t think it was wrong to let your child apply to cornell; i feel like he was competitive</p>
<p>I think this is based on Naviance, which I believe is voluntarily self reported. If all that is true, there are bound to be some errors. But my guess is the errors are more likely to be people just not reporting at all, rather than people deliberately reporting false results.</p>