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help with classifying safeties, matches and reaches for my D
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Your commentary on your son's experience at Oberlin also has been very helpful to me as my D has submitted an application there.
Coincidentally, a family at D's school has a daughter, now a junior, at Cornell and a son who just started at Oberlin. The daughter has been extremely happy, looking forward to an update from the son.
Cornell ED
Michigan, Wisconsin EA (both OOS?)
RD:
Duke
Washington U
Colgate
That's a nice list of reaches and matches. Do you have a true safety in mind?
@citymama9 fwiw, she described hamilton as a cross between colby and oberlin. she was very turned off by Oberlin when she visited her older brother, so she's passing. She decided on cornell over duke because she feels cornell is more economically and racially diverse. Also, we've given each of the kids a college budget, any unused money can be used for grad school so she likes the idea of saving around $60k over four years.
@my2caligirls good idea, but her head will explode if we introduce more schools at this point.
@prezbucky here's the latest list, copied from an earlier post. I've added parchment probabilities.
basic stats:
caucasian female
4.0 unw, 8aps by the time she graduates, two languages
act - 33, 34 superscore, plans to try one more time
sat II bio - 790
languages, spanish and chinese since 8th grade, taught herself latin this past summer
attended Tufts vet summer program, shadowed vets, attended lectures, etc. competitive admittance.
ecs -
since 8th grade worked with partners to help raise money and awareness for girl's education in developing countries. Chose a different country each year
varsity tennis captain
destination imagination - 4th globally in 10th grade
chinese club vp
mount holyoke book award
no hooks
safety
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mcgill 14/14 with gpa>=88 and 2075 sat Parchment%=89
rochester 31/33 with gpa>=90, sat >= 1800 Parchment%=94
match
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colby 5/6 with gpa>=95, sat >= 2000 Parchment%=72
wisconsin 9/9 gpa >=90, sat >=1800 Parchment%=82
Colgate 6/8 gpa >= 93, sat >=2050 Parchment%=79
reach
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u mich 20/24 with gpa>=94, sat >= 2000 Parchment%=81
middlebury 8/12 with gpa>=95, sat >= 2150 Parchment%=38
wash U 5/5 with gpa>=95, sat >= 2200 Parchment%=49
cmu 8/10 with gpa>=92, sat >= 2150 Parchment%=63
cornell 8/9 with gpa >= 95, sat >=2200 Parchment%=46
far reach
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duke 1/25 with gpa=99, sat = 2200 Parchment%=23
dartmouth 1/19 with gpa = 98, sat=2275 Parchment%=20
williams 1/12 with gpa = 98, sat=2300 Parchment%=24
Rice 1/4 with gpa=94 sat = 2050 Parchment%=35
berkeley 2/4 with gpa>=95, sat>=2200 Parchment%=58
https://www.suny.edu/media/suny/content-assets/documents/summary-sheets/Admissions_qf_stateop.pdf
This bodes well for your daughter - but from what I hear a lot also depends on the essay and the "fit."
Naviance doesn't break down stats for Cornell by college so it can be deceptive. Many of the land grant colleges (like ALS) are also big on the "Conditional / Guaranteed Transfer" option - that's usually for kids with lower test scores so may not apply, but be aware that this might happen. You go to another college for a year and if you get a certain GPA you are pretty much guaranteed a transfer sophomore year.
And here's a second link about size off class:
http://cals.cornell.edu/sites/cals.cornell.edu/files/shared/documents/academics/CALS_exchange_PPT.pdf
I think your D has a good chance - but she's hopefully happy with safeties and matches, too.
Sounds perfect.
cornell ed
u mich ea
wisc ea
uva ea
I'd like to think (hope) Cornell is 50-50, with some luck, hope to be done mid dec.
Unfortunately, I don't think we'll have heard from any other schools before that, so the outcome at cornell (and possible u mich ea) will be her last data point.
The list of schools is in reply #165 of this thread.
thanks!
p.s. she decided to swap wiliams for vanderbilt on her list.
My D did meet the EA deadline for a couple of match schools for the purpose of using them as a bellwether. We think she should get in, but if she doesn't, it will definitely give us a better sense of her chances at her favorite school, a reachier one. She plans to apply RD but if the matches come in as rejections or waitlists, she may switch to EDII.