Profile of top McKinney HS graduate and college admissions (Howe: low income, schools)

[aggie972]

I'm also not surprised or outraged that she didn't get into the Ivies. If that's the reaction they were wanting, they might have been better off picking someone who was just barely outside the top 10% with an amazing SAT score who got rejected by UT. But the Journal readers may not want to read about non Ivy schools.

[75214Dad]

Originally Posted by 20Hope20

Private and magnet school counselors have less load and more connections in college admission circle.They understand how to position which student for which school for best outcome.

This is not true of magnet schools here. Very overwhelmed counselors.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by Grainraiser

This is only partially true. The kids from lesser districts are not really in competition with the kids from stronger districts because they are not in competition with each other. The kids for highly ranked districts are competing with like ranked kids and are applying for the school of business, engineering and computer science. The weaker school district kids are battling for spots in the school of communication or liberal arts. For the most part they are not getting into the business, engineering or computer science. I spoke with a UT admission guy and he advised the university would be made up of kids from mostly 15 Texas high schools if they went on strength of district.

Right. The point is tho. the several landing spots for auto admit kids accept far, far more kids than they otherwise would consuming resources that could otherwise be invested into better programs and better prepared students.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by texstout

This year for USC they had 69,000 applicants and this year's acceptance rate was 11.88%.

I'm in the Grown and Flown FB group and they've been talking about how this year's acceptances have record lows due in part to many schools going test optional and still some hangover from Covid (with many kids taking gap years).

FWIIW we have some friends down the way....their daughter is off to USC in the fall.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by 20Hope20

Private and magnet school counselors have less load and more connections in college admission circle.They understand how to position which student for which school for best outcome.

Very much this.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by 20Hope20

UT admits on academic strength, if you have it, they accept you to major and track of your choice.

On the competitive admit side.......engineering, business, fine arts, linguistics, math, life sciences etc. etc. this is exactly right. On the auto-admit side in many cases not so much.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by aggie972

I'm also not surprised or outraged that she didn't get into the Ivies. If that's the reaction they were wanting, they might have been better off picking someone who was just barely outside the top 10% with an amazing SAT score who got rejected by UT. But the Journal readers may not want to read about non Ivy schools.

As it's all in the public domain.....I'll go there. Her mental health issues, whether anyone will admit it or not, hurt her chances. As someone mentioned above the young lady is likely so much better off in a non-pressure cooker school.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by 75214Dad

This is not true of magnet schools here. Very overwhelmed counselors.

Interesting. It's sort of a dual-anecdote....a friend's two daughters both reported excellent advising/counseling at TAG. That info a little dated tho. the youngest of the two is 25 or 26yo.

[walker1962]

Originally Posted by Walter Benjamin

The WSJ has a profile of a McKinney High '22 graduate who, despite being extraordinarily academically accomplished, was rejected from *all* of the "top" undergraduate colleges she applied to:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/to-get-...hare_permalink


IMHO the article makes clear (as is already well-known) that college admission, at least at that level, has less and less to do with pure academic merit, and more and more to do with other things. Surely employers will figure this out, if they haven't already done so.

What's also interesting is that the article implies males get some preference for admission at schools because so many more women attend college than men. As result, the M/F application ratio is not what many schools find reasonable.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by walker1962

What's also interesting is that the article implies males get some preference for admission at schools because so many more women attend college than men. As result, the M/F application ratio is not what many schools find reasonable.

Women have outnumbered men in terms of numbers who apply and numbers who graduate college since the late 1970s. I read somewhere that liberal arts schools sometimes have 60 - 40 female vs. male application rates with a few even more female heavy.