Sooooo… did anyone else also notice that the Scoir update to the scatergram shows current (as in 2024) acceptance rates/average gpa/average test score for your school?
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Is this true for UCs as well?
Of course! It was meant to be taken in humor. I was not venting.
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No, UCs do not have local service areas.
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It appears to me ours is still only through 2023.
Yup. And ours now omits enrollments - I think that is because for small schools where there were few kids attending it was a little too easy to figure out whose data was whose.
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Ours never showed enrollment. But when they added 2024 (I don’t think “current year” was there until summer previously) they zeroed out everyones GPA, so while we can see acceptance rate, nothing actually appears on the graph.
My kid’s school has Naviance, and one school is showing 2024 numbers, but not on the scattergram. Other schools are only showing whose applied, and some aren’t showing anything. I assume there’s a threshold, one school she’s been admitted to doesn’t even show anyone applying (but it’s a smaller school so she could have been the only one.) I also wonder if they are taking the data from kids themselves - if it’s pulling the numbers from “colleges I’m applying to” and then hoping they update. A school where two kids show applying, we know one was admitted and she was waitlisted, but it doesn’t reflect that.
We can still see gpa and SAT (or ACT). Previously you could see accepted, denied and enrolling in the list view, but the enrolling is gone. Ours is still only through 2023.
Right. This is HUGE advantage of private vs public. I’d guess that the acceptance rate for our highly ranked public school in New England for NESCAC is around 10%. No one at their school is helping these kids.
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REA still worry about yield, ED… you are no longer AOs problem. Maybe im being cynical
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“I also wonder if there’s less college application stress for top students who live in Texas, Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Georgia, California, etc where the state schools may not be safeties, but your chances of getting in are so much higher than kids from OOS.”
For my S24 and his friends, it definitely is stressful to know the state flagship is not a sure bet. It also can be stressful for kids like my D24 who would be miserable at the state flagship, but who is expected to be thrilled to get a chance to go there.
It’s just stressful for almost all students, all parents, almost regardless of circumstances
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In the abstract yes, but the list of schools that are REA is pretty rarified air. Their yields are 80+% and likely fairly constant from year to year.
Lots of flagships just announced decisions…UNC, Michigan & more.
My son got into UNC.
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Yeah, and when Stanford AO worried about person getting into Harvard Rd and bit taking the spot……they write a nice letter and keep yield over 80%
Nice! Our 2 droids just got into Michigan 
Feels like a double dip since I of course posted in the Michigan thread. But since we have two kids I’ll take the liberty of posting in two threads 
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Except this is all part of their model. They’re not worried about any 1 specific person. They know their pool. They know within a very narrow range how many will matriculate, and that’s including sending those letters. There was no “jeez we’d better send a letter or we risk losing this kid” contemplation here.
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I can’t keep up, we didn’t apply so don’t know school, did Michigan coin a new term
of postponed? Please tell me no.
Yeah, this feels to me like one of those your-birthday-is-on-Christmas deals where taking extra measures to get two sets of presents is perfectly fine.
And of course congrats to them!
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