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<p>Some top students started their college at community college:
<a href=“Berkeley News | Berkeley”>Berkeley News | Berkeley;
<a href=“Aaron Benavidez | Department of Sociology”>http://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/aaron-benavidez</a></p>
<p>I’ve read through all of the posts above and I have to say a lot of adults are being kind of rude to a group of disappointed teenagers. Of course they could have applied to more safeties, and of course some of the students that have gotten into excellent schools but are disappointed should look on the bright side. But many parents need to share in some of the “blame” for students feeling the way they do. For instance, when on another thread parents are arguing about the fact that Stanford is BETTER then Harvard and therefore should be more sought after because they accepted 5.3% compared to Harvard’s 5.1% or some such nonsense, we all need to get a grip. </p>
<p>I keep reading about counselors not warning these kids to include safeties. How about their parents? This info isn’t hard to find. In fact, low admission rates at ivies are discussed seemingly everywhere. And this snobbery regarding non-ivy schools comes from somewhere and I suspect it isn’t only peers. Who let’s their kid do this?</p>
<p>We know of one senior who was shut out, having only applied to big name schools. I agree with @gollygosh about the colleges that are still sending admissions information being available, but I think community college is a very viable possibility, as well. I think what matters most is how he deals with this adversity. Everyone at school knows what happened, and he feels humiliated. If he decides not to take a year off, he will have to work hard with full enthusiasm to set himself up for a transfer sophomore year. When he does, he will need to turn the humiliation to humility, and apply to a wider range of schools.</p>
<p>@lab317, I agree completely. Our D’s GC had ZERO input. The fact that she was clueless was only part of the reason why. We decided to take responsibility and become informed. CC was invaluable in the process, btw.</p>
<p>I agree with you, redeye. SO many parents think their kids are just SO special and that anything less than acceptance at the most prestigious schools represents a huge failure. They seem to think that their work as a parent is summed up by the letters that come in March at the end of their child’s senior year. People also buy into so many myths that are easily countered with facts, but they don’t want to hear them.</p>
<p>I was just with a parent like this last week. She and her (junior) child are embarking on an ambitious east coast college tour. She seems to think that the Ivies will be “almost free” to them and that her child, even with a spotty school record, will have no trouble getting into one. It’s too bad she won’t read the rejection threads from the past week or so. She doesn’t want to hear it.</p>
<p>LanaHere, they do, and they look. Unless colleges are listed alphabetically, they consider the schools are listed in order of preference. In any case they see if they’re your safety…
Some schools are need blind and don’t meet need: these schools won’t care; all other schools (need aware or need bling/100%need schools) will care. </p>
<p>Here is a story from a Kid on Long Island (New York)- this article was published in Newsday on April 1, 2014 - I removed his name and reference to the town just to be fair </p>
<p>Seventeen-year-old xxxxxx of xxxxxx took a shot at – and won – what amounts to an academic royal flush: He applied to and was accepted at all eight Ivy League schools."</p>
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<p>Lol his name is Kwasi Enin and the story is all over the news…he was interviewed & someone already posted the article here on CC…</p>
<p><a href=“http://abcnews.go.com/US/t/story/ny-student-accepted-ivy-league-schools-23139053?ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dlong%2Bisland%2Bstudent%2Bivy%2Bleague%26form%3DAPIPA1”>http://abcnews.go.com/US/t/story/ny-student-accepted-ivy-league-schools-23139053?ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dlong%2Bisland%2Bstudent%2Bivy%2Bleague%26form%3DAPIPA1</a></p>
<p>I believe it’s also on GMA. If one is interviewed & on GMA, I doubt they are looking to be anonymous.</p>
<p>Just trying to be respectful of the kids identity – if its that important to YOU – you will find out, otherwise I see no reason to add it to a story.</p>
<p>For the record, one of my S’s best friends has been admitted to: MIT, Harvard, Yale, Michigan, Dartmouth, Notre Dame, Stanford, Duke and U of Chicago. Why no story about him? He does not have a “hook”</p>
<p>mortgagebkr, the mods may delete your post because of copyright issues. Per TOS, you are only allowed to quote a few sentences or a paragraph, then you may post the link. </p>
<p>It might get by, but just in case it doesn’t, you’ll know why.</p>
<p>I wonder if a white kid with the same stats would have gotten in all eight Ivies? (Not trying to be racist).</p>
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Yes, I was a finalist. I participated in the college match but was not matched. Rejected Rice EDI and Ponoma ED II. The QB app rolled into those ED attempts.</p>
<p>So, do you think being QB hurt? </p>
<p>I’m in the same boat. Top of my class, 34 ACT, president of 3 clubs, captain of 2 sports. Still got denied by stanford and duke, and waitlisted by Vandy, Harvard, Northwestern, and Wash U. At least I have my one safe school. Still in shock that i did’t get accepted by a single one of those 6.</p>
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<p>Doubtful. This student’s life experience makes for a legitimate “hook.”</p>
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<p><a href=“Long Island Student Kwasi Enin Gets Accepted To All 8 Ivy League Universities | HuffPost College”>HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost;
<p>Sorry I don’t see his life experience as being any special. His parents are college educated in the US and are nurses, he was born in the US and attends a good high school in Long Island that offers at least more than 11 APs, the number of APs that he took. I am happy for him, but don’t see anything special.</p>
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<p>This logic assumes that admission to each school is an independent event…but that’s actually not the case. There are many cases where a student is admitted to more than one Ivy League school. Not really surprising: the factors that make a student appealing to one office of Ivy Adcoms are going to be appealing to Adcoms at other Ivy admissions offices. </p>
<p>That’s not to say that everyone admitted to one Ivy League school will be admitted to another. Just that you can’t treat admissions like independent dice rolls with each application. And that your odds aren’t the same as everyone else’s. </p>
<p>The story about the young man who was admitted to every school in the Ivy League is a big deal because it’s rare. If the odds of being rejected at all of the Ivies were really about 50-50, then we’d be reading stories like this all the time. We don’t…which is further evidence that treating these admissions as independent events is incorrect. </p>
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<p>Well, maybe the admissions people did. In any case, we are both just speculating.</p>
<p>No, if anything QB helped. But those Rice and Pomona early refusals should have helped you build a better QB college list.</p>