Hearty Holy Wednesday to Ya All!
General trends for this year:
1)Going to boarding school and doing the right courses do pay off in the end. Harvard, Yale, Brown, Princeton and Stanford are all taken by my boarding school students.
2)Having US citizenship or a green card helps, but not against an international student with great academic qualifications.
3)Attending consultations regularly (even when abroad at boarding school) reaped wonders. Thank your parents, boarders, for dragging you here on Spring Break, Christmas and summer breaks!
4)UPenn took a record 9 students between my US and Jamaican students (overseas and local) - what's happening?
5)Top spoils this year goes to Glenmuir, Wolmer's Girls', Immaculate and Campion. It is good to see the bounty shared up so nicely this year....Just those wonderful essays....
ACCEPTANCES
Graduate Schools
Whitney Hudson - MFA Art Therapy
Seton Hill
LIU
Hofstra
Mohammed Ahmad - MSc in Nuclear Physics
Ohio State
Tennesse State
Wayne State
University of South Carolina
Denton McTaggart - MA
York University
Jordan Gray - Columbia University Dental School
(And a private Yaay! to Jordan for all the midnight calls for her consulting sessions while at McGill University!)
Undergraduate Schools
(The Golden Circle of Acceptances):
Princeton University - Gabrielle Rogers
Andrew Grant
Dartmouth University - Jaquille Jones
Nicholas Brown
Cornell University - Victoria Palmer
University of Pennsylvania - Mary Quant
Chevonae Walcott
Andrew Grant
Sonam Khemlani
UCLA: Berkeley - Jaquille Jones
Duke University - Ashley Rosen
MIT - Rashid Chatani
University of Chicago - Sonam Khemlani
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"Not to be Messed With Acceptances"
Carnegie Mellon - Adam Simpson
Vassar College - Sangita Sawh
Pomona College - Andrew Grant, Victoria Palmer,
Williams - Nicholas Brown
Georgetown - Sonam and Chirag Khemlani
Emory - Ashley Rosen, Jhanelle Hughes, Sonam and Chirag Khemlani
Mt. Holyoke - Jheanelle Lumsden
Wesleyan University - Pooja Gurnani, Victoria Palmer
Macalester University - Sangita Sawh. Jacob Phillips, Victoria Palmer
Davidson College - Victoria Palmer
Tufts University - Victoria Palmer
Amherst University - Jaquille Jones
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"Not to be Overlooked Acceptances"
University of Virginia - Chevonae Walcott, Andrew Grant
University of Toronto - Andrew Grant
McGill University - Andrew Grant
University of Rochester - Andrew Grant
University of South Florida - Samantha Cassie
Morgan State - Samantha Cassie
Boston University - Pooja Gurnani
Penn State - Pooja Gurnani
Northeastern University - Pooja Gurnani
Furman University - Renee White
Lawrence University - Tanique Allen
Acadia University - Tanique Allen
St. Mary's University - Tanique Allen
University of Vermont - Jheanelle Lumsden
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Please note that the students who started classes in February and Janaury of 2012, your Parents' Meeting is on April 15th at Mona Visitor's Lodge(Blue Room) from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Equally, we are going to have our Preliminary Meeting with all our SSAT students going off to boarding school from 5:30 - 7 p.m. Do note on your calendars.
The Farewell session for all students will be held (an affair to remember) in May after all decisions are made on May 1, (remember to inform the schools you are attending....)by May 1 on May 13. Don't forget, more details anon!
Great job, great year...some are waiting on the waitlists, continue to do so and send in all you can in furhter recommendations et al...it works, sometimes....
See you all for more exciting news next week.
General trends for this year:
1)Going to boarding school and doing the right courses do pay off in the end. Harvard, Yale, Brown, Princeton and Stanford are all taken by my boarding school students.
2)Having US citizenship or a green card helps, but not against an international student with great academic qualifications.
3)Attending consultations regularly (even when abroad at boarding school) reaped wonders. Thank your parents, boarders, for dragging you here on Spring Break, Christmas and summer breaks!
4)UPenn took a record 9 students between my US and Jamaican students (overseas and local) - what's happening?
5)Top spoils this year goes to Glenmuir, Wolmer's Girls', Immaculate and Campion. It is good to see the bounty shared up so nicely this year....Just those wonderful essays....
ACCEPTANCES
Graduate Schools
Whitney Hudson - MFA Art Therapy
Seton Hill
LIU
Hofstra
Mohammed Ahmad - MSc in Nuclear Physics
Ohio State
Tennesse State
Wayne State
University of South Carolina
Denton McTaggart - MA
York University
Jordan Gray - Columbia University Dental School
(And a private Yaay! to Jordan for all the midnight calls for her consulting sessions while at McGill University!)
Undergraduate Schools
(The Golden Circle of Acceptances):
Princeton University - Gabrielle Rogers
Andrew Grant
Dartmouth University - Jaquille Jones
Nicholas Brown
Cornell University - Victoria Palmer
University of Pennsylvania - Mary Quant
Chevonae Walcott
Andrew Grant
Sonam Khemlani
UCLA: Berkeley - Jaquille Jones
Duke University - Ashley Rosen
MIT - Rashid Chatani
University of Chicago - Sonam Khemlani
______________________________________
"Not to be Messed With Acceptances"
Carnegie Mellon - Adam Simpson
Vassar College - Sangita Sawh
Pomona College - Andrew Grant, Victoria Palmer,
Williams - Nicholas Brown
Georgetown - Sonam and Chirag Khemlani
Emory - Ashley Rosen, Jhanelle Hughes, Sonam and Chirag Khemlani
Mt. Holyoke - Jheanelle Lumsden
Wesleyan University - Pooja Gurnani, Victoria Palmer
Macalester University - Sangita Sawh. Jacob Phillips, Victoria Palmer
Davidson College - Victoria Palmer
Tufts University - Victoria Palmer
Amherst University - Jaquille Jones
_______________________________________
"Not to be Overlooked Acceptances"
University of Virginia - Chevonae Walcott, Andrew Grant
University of Toronto - Andrew Grant
McGill University - Andrew Grant
University of Rochester - Andrew Grant
University of South Florida - Samantha Cassie
Morgan State - Samantha Cassie
Boston University - Pooja Gurnani
Penn State - Pooja Gurnani
Northeastern University - Pooja Gurnani
Furman University - Renee White
Lawrence University - Tanique Allen
Acadia University - Tanique Allen
St. Mary's University - Tanique Allen
University of Vermont - Jheanelle Lumsden
__________________________________
Please note that the students who started classes in February and Janaury of 2012, your Parents' Meeting is on April 15th at Mona Visitor's Lodge(Blue Room) from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Equally, we are going to have our Preliminary Meeting with all our SSAT students going off to boarding school from 5:30 - 7 p.m. Do note on your calendars.
The Farewell session for all students will be held (an affair to remember) in May after all decisions are made on May 1, (remember to inform the schools you are attending....)by May 1 on May 13. Don't forget, more details anon!
Great job, great year...some are waiting on the waitlists, continue to do so and send in all you can in furhter recommendations et al...it works, sometimes....
See you all for more exciting news next week.
I really don't understand why these acceptances are being ranked in terms of their worth. What gives anyone the right to say that being accepted into Williams is less of an achievement than being accepted into MIT? So much of a person's university experience depends on their area of study, their personal choice of environment, interests, extra-curriculars and so on. Also "Golden Circle of Acceptance?" That's corny at best. ALSO McGill and UT are the top two universities in Canada. Are we considering Canadian schools as lesser than American schools? And what is Versan's obsession with an Ivy League education anyway? There is SO MUCH MORE to life than US News and World Report rankings.
ReplyDeleteSincerely,
Someone who thinks that you shouldn't be judged on how well you filled out an application.
What is this? This is ridiculous. I attend an Ivy League institution and I would never say that the students who attend an amazing liberal arts school are in any way inferior to students attending an Ivy. When you rank colleges like this, you create undue stress and a culture of competition rather than learning. This list is disgusting.
ReplyDeleteAre they all Ivis, do we not see a smattering of other schools?
DeletePity you don't educate people on the schools that you select for them as to how selective they are. This would give the person a choice as to whether they want to apply there or not.
ReplyDeleteThis is a disgrace on the part of Versan.
ReplyDeleteBe specific, we can handle the blows.
DeleteAs someone who just went through the college process and had to deal with the pressures that college rankings impose, I would never recommend Versan to anyone because it's obvious that the program and its head, Mrs Bramwell, are superficial and pretentious. I'm shocked that Mrs Bramwell calls herself an educator and I'm worried about how her love affair with college rankings is playing with the minds of her students. They should all feel incredibly accomplished, but instead, this list makes some of them feel inadequate. Versan is trying to make it seem as though they have the key to college success, but honestly, the boarding schools that many of these kids attend have great college counselling and Versan is only piggybacking on that. You should be downright ashamed of yourself Mrs Bramwell-- please fix your attitude.
ReplyDeleteI will, when you can have a facce to face frank discussion. I like to fight fairly.
DeleteI don't know if you have considered this, but it would be great if you could include the SAT scores when you are announcing acceptances (not only the ivy acceptances but with all acceptances) I took the SAT on my own and received a 2130 and would love to somewhat gauge my chances.
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