<p>I think that saying that anyone is a shoo-in at HYP is like saying that they’re a shoo-in to become the President. Sure, it exists, but it’s exceedingly rare.</p>
<p>Columbia is an excellent university. One of our nation’s finest.</p>
<p>Usually, we get a couple of people to Case Western. And then maybe a couple of other good schools (at least according to CC). Like last year, we had University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins, and Columbia. But they were also all URMs.</p>
<p>UCLAri, I was stupid, I thought with those SAT scores and 10 APs with 5s on all, he was a shoo in. In retrospect I realize my hubris, and naivete. Please rank Columbia on your own scale, vs the HYPSM etc. I am curious about your thoughts.</p>
<p>Wow ramaswami, your son’s situation is eerily like mine. Down to the school, other acceptances, and the anger at the system! I guess we really are coming to our senses about the college process.</p>
<p>Good job to your son though…he got into some really good schools.</p>
<p>Oh, I don’t know. I’d put it in the top 10 to 15 schools or so. I don’t really follow the rankings as obsessively as most on this site, as I think that they capture very little of a schools real quality (or even its relative quality.) It’s clearly somewhere just below HYPSM in pretty much everything.</p>
<p>And the location is awesome.</p>
<p>IMO, Columbia is right after CHYMPS. It had a lower acceptance rate than Harvard this year.</p>
<p>I think it’s really strange that some of your schools publish who’s going where. I think it might be a little embarrassing for kids who either didn’t get into the college they want, aren’t going to as prestigious a college as other kids or choose not to go to college at all. I only hear about kids acceptances/where they’re going by word of mouth, and they mention it at graduation with the val and sal. I don’t think this is information you need to broadcast, but tell people more discriminately on a more personal level. I dunno…am I weird for thinking this?</p>
<p>^^ It depends on how big or small your school is and what type. My school is very small and everyone goes to a good college (not all Ivies, I mean just not community colleges or city colleges) in the end so it’s not strange that we post who goes where.
If it were a school where not everyone ended up going to college or just a really big school, it might make a little less sense to do so.</p>
<p>The school profile which is sent to colleges along with the student’s transcript and counselor letter lists college matriculation. This is because it is one way for colleges to assess the strength of the school. Hence, this public document will show which colleges the students go to. Of course, no names.</p>
<p>I am not sure yet how many kids from my school are going to top schools. I know a friend of mine is going to Brown and someone else is going to Cornell I believe. Thing is over here not everyone can pay for it, so they get accepted, but due to money constraints go to Rutgers.</p>
<p>My d’s school makes a big banner that lists the schools and students who will be attending those schools. It hangs in the commons area. It is voluntary to turn in that information.</p>
<p>I’m the only one going to an elite school (Duke) out of 250+ seniors. Our val got waitlisted at Brown, and our sal got rejected from Brown’s PLME program. Both are going to the honors program at a SUNY school…the val is actually in an accelerated honors program that pays her about $1,000 a semester to attend. Not a bad deal…</p>
<p>This year my school:</p>
<p>2 to Yale (first ever to go to Yale)
4-6 to Berkeley</p>
<p>In the last 5 years there were maybe 2 elite colleges (Stanford, UPenn), so my school sucks.</p>