Results: accepted at Brown, waitlisted at UChicago, Stanford, Yale and Columbia, rejected at Princeton, Harvard, Amherst and Williams. Yup, no safeties or matches in the bunch. Not out of arrogance. Gap year was the safety.
Will attend; Brown, since that's the only place he got in lol.
Major: American history and music
What we learned: sibling legacy meant nothing, parent legacy seems to have required an EA application (heard that elsewhere for this school as well), and demonstrated interest counts for a lot in this case. Effectively, I figured DS stood no chance at Yale and Stanford at all, but I think the music got him the Yale WL and Stanford seems to like his secondary school. Very surprised by the sibling legacy rejections as both siblings do extraordinarily well at their schools. DS visited Brown twice, made sure the AdCom knew this, and spent a fair bit of time getting to know the music people -- not to boost his chances, but out of genuine interest in discovering whether Brown is a fit. Brown was in his top three so life is good.
What else I learned from legit experts I spoke with this past week about the WL: kids have been accepted to Yale/Harvard and rejected at Brown, a case where UChicago wl a kid they figured would get into HYP (didn't, but once UChicago knew that, he got off the WL) and it's all a bit crazy.
Brown is at the top of my daughter's list. It solidified it's spot there on our first visit. Would you mind sharing the transcript style you chose? We are thinking of doing it by subject rather than by year.
Class of 2019 acceptances & decisions thread (updated 8/23/19)
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Brown is at the top of my daughter's list. It solidified it's spot there on our first visit. Would you mind sharing the transcript style you chose? We are thinking of doing it by subject rather than by year.