<p>You can get some of this info from Naviance scattergrams, if your school participates. It’s (somewhat) anonymous.</p>
<p>Hunt – Our school just started Naviance this year, and is only using it for transcripts. There is no data from previous years, and our counselor is in her second year at our school. That’s why anecdotal evidence has been helpful for us.</p>
<p>Even when the school has been using Naviance for a while, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because there can be lots of errors. Also, it doesn’t tell you whether a kid was “hooked” or not. Still, it gives you some ideas.</p>
<p>“I would sure like to have known the grades, scores, accomplishments, and college plans of all the other kids in my daughter’s program–it might have helped in developing a college list and in strategizing where to apply early.”</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>Isn’t that the primary reason many kids/parents ask these questions? </p>
<p>Just because I respect others right not share SAT/ACT scores, doesn’t
mean I won’t ask.</p>
<p>Hunt, I think S2’s GC was surprised at his SAT score…he was a lot like boysx3’s S. Would have been a superstar at the local HS, but was a bit under the radar at the IB program. Also had some very interesting ECs completely outside of school that weren’t known among his classmates.</p>
<p>I spent a lot of time on Naviance reading tea leaves. I had also kept meticulous notes on Naviance data and results from S1’s school. S2 was in uncharted territory on Naviance – he was somewhat lopsided. He was in good company on the SAT, but not much in the way of comparables on the GPA.</p>
<p>S2 chose to focus on EA and places that were known to like IB students from his school, and to really focus on essays. Worked for him. He was pretty happy to have one of his top two choices in hand in December after seeing how many people were rejected in Yale SCEA that year. (I do have to wonder why the GCs there don’t talk to students about their list of schools and reasonable expectations. I don’t care how terrific the school is, 28 students from one program are NOT getting into Yale EA.)</p>
<p>ETA: Also having gone through the process with S1 was illuminating. Certain schools wanted that 4.0/2400 even if if the 3.8/2350+ kid took harder classes. Saw it often enough to know we needed to be realistic with both kids.</p>
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That’s really true. This year, it appears that the mass EA applications are going to be to Princeton, for some reason.</p>
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<p>What kind of school is this where 28 students are applying to Yale EA? Is this a public school or an elite private?</p>
<p>It’s a public school that includes an IB magnet with (I think) about 125 students in each class. Probably half of them, or even more, have the mojo to be looking at really selective colleges.</p>
<p>My D threw me under the bus to protect the fact that she had perfect SAT scores. I overheard her telling a friend that she didn’t take an SAT prep class because I was too lazy to sign her up. The real reason - she always scored well on tests and I knew she would do fine and it wasn’t worth giving up her only free afternoon of the week. This kills me since I was so clearly right, but she didn’t want to look like a nerd by saying she didn’t need a prep class.</p>
<p>jrpar,</p>
<p>I certainly hope your son apologized for taking the seat with her name on it!!! Sometimes I wonder how some people would feel if they saw video of themselves.</p>
<p>Oftentimes, there are parents who would gladly Tweet their offsprings’ test results and academic achievements. There was this kid that applied to a single school (both parents went there), got full ride, etc, and managed a single B in high school. His mother was furious that her son was dissed… “AP bleeping English Lit for crying out loud”. I took great pleasure from pointing out that this here class was the only AP course my older daughter took in HS (and aced it :-)). </p>
<p>Likewise, her two younger daughters are 4.0 students in middle school as is my younger daughter; except her kids have an Amy Chua like regiment of science this and math that and the mom is as regular a presence at the school as the furniture there… In contrast, my younger one brings a 4.0 every period with little effort or coaching (same kid that wants to major in taking tests :-)).</p>
<p>So, we need to look at the corollary to this - not people who ‘ask’ the scores, but people who bore/annoy others to tears with their kids’ superior performance.</p>
<p>I think it’s rude and annoying and those parents just want to make you feel let down because their child is doing “soooo greeat”</p>
<p>By pointing it out, turbo, you just feed into it. The impact of any bragging broadcast is lost if the audience yawns. Let her be furious – it doesn’t affect you, so there is no need for a response.</p>
<p>Rude or not depends on who asks the question. If you think she’s rude then she’s not your friend, but she might think you are her friend.</p>
<p>I just don’t get why so many people seem to care about the opinions of people whose only link to you is that you have kids in the same high school. Let them brag, stew, be furious or have whatever opinion they like. There is a whole contingent of parents in my kid’s hs who will “never understand” why you would pay good money for a school when you have the state flagship which is perfectly fine, or why you’d want to send your kid to a college that is a plane ride away. So let them. Shrug. Not my concern and I don’t need to address their concerns or answer their questions at all.</p>
<p>PG
maybe you want to learn cultures of HSs your kid’s plane ride away school came from.
don’t care , shouldn’t care is your business but if your kid is in it, it should become your business.
you honestly never seen nor heard of the HSs that 25-30 kids would all apply to same Ivies or selective schools EA or whatnot?</p>
<p>bears and dogs, my thinking was already more expansive than the thinking of most of the parents at my kids’ school. Therefore, I had little interest in their opinions or their lack of knowledge or understanding of the world of selective schools outside their backyards. What they do with their kids is their problem, not mine. I’ll never see these people again.</p>
<p>I am talking about far away college now your kid attends and HSs and home cultures its students are coming from, which they were built from thus far, which your kids are dealing with right NOW, not your hometown HS parents.
or am I misunderstanding you again?</p>
<p>you got to mellow down, you still live there, yes? you will see them at stores, parks, airports.
or
horrors! your kid might come back to attend state U for some unforeseen reasons.
see, action calls for reaction. please be nicer here as you would be in real life. It will be better for your kids.</p>
<p>My children attend schools that draw from the entire nation, not just the local area, so their classmates come from all different backgrounds – from rural to working class suburban to affluent suburban to city magnet to religious to homeschooling to elite prep and boarding schools, so there is no one single background they have. So there is no “one new culture” I “need to understand.”</p>