you’ll almost definitely get into all the non-ivies. wrt ivy schools: you’re an incredibly competitive applicant, but so is every kid admissions is considering. just a note: the low acceptance rate schools like to boast about is manipulated: they send out big catalogs and nice letters to kids w/ no chance of acceptance just so they can reject them and have an “elite” acceptance rate, so it’s really not a good indicator of acceptance chances
@artsycyborg so they send “apply here” packages to a lot of students who most likely have no chance just so they waste money and lower the acceptance rate to raise their facade of prestige and selectivity? Woah… I never realized this.
Then don’t all colleges do this? All colleges try to make people apply to raise prestige? Or do some colleges look for people who might actually fit and try to help them?
And I am very curious. People have been saying that I am a decently qualified applicant for HYPSM. Elsewhere, I have read that competitants need to be unique in their applicantion to even get a good look at admission to these schools. Besides my background, is there anything unique about my resume compared to other people? I like to think that I have a lot of iniative in these extracurriculars, and I do, but doesn’t almost everyone?
Is what I am achieving unique, or is the only reason I am unique my background and how I got to this point from my circumstances.
Then, really, if colleges are looking for someone to benefit their school, why am I more competitive than someone with the same scores and extracurriculars, but a less arduous different background? Do they just feel bad for me? Do they think I will make a good “news story” when I change the world?
some colleges focus on admissions rate more than others. eg a state school wouldn’t do it bc it’s wasting money, and while a mid-competitive school might send stuff to kids with a low chance of acceptance, the ivies (and similarly high-ranked schools) do it aggressively.
you have a lot of leadership roles, which schools definitely like. i don’t know how admissions chooses the final students once they’ve winnowed the huge mass of apps. truthfully, no one on CC knows for sure if you’ll get into HYPSM. you’ll just have to wait for admissions release date. (which i know is completely unhelpful. sorry.)
*i would hope that a college would select you because they want to help you to change the world, not so they can get good press.
Two more weeks.
If anyone has watched that Yale alumni Buzzfeed video, does it hurt/help that only like 5 people in my district ever get into ivies?
MIT: Accepted. Woo
Care to chance me on HYPS? Or at this point is it just luck?
@JustPostingOnce, congratulations- that is awesome! My husband is MIT '84, and I spent a bit of time there too.
@JustPostingOnce, I knew you would get accepted into those good schools! MIT is one of the best schools in not only the country, but the world, so you should feel extremely proud of yourself. Good luck getting into other colleges, I’m sure you will get many more acceptances!
Thank you both so much!!!
I’ve been thinking so much about Harvard and Yale lately that I almost forgot how great MIT is. I will have a tough decision ahead, but thank you everyone so much!
I saw a Yale presentation and the campus life seems very extremely alluring… But Harvard has built so much with me… Hm
Hopefully I get into one and not the other or something just to make the decision easier lol
Idk
CONGRATULATIONS !!! 
It’s hard to overstate how hard it is to get into MIT and what great news that is for you. Now you know you have a great choice.
Thank you! I think Yale might be the best fit for me now.
Just curious but to JustPostingOnce, how is it that you did not know that you had been accepted to MIT until two days after students received the MIT decision?
Also slightly odd but not as much as not hearing about MIT for two days is the overlap between MIT and Yale…I don’t usually see students who hope for Yale and are conflicted between MIT and Yale. Hmmmmmmm
@lostaccount, prestige seekers aren’t super worried about fit. And the OP might not have run out here to update us the second they found out about MIT (not everyone hangs around here as much as we do).
@lostaccount I didn’t realize that I should’ve updated it XD. Sorry, I realized that you guys wanted to know after rereading the comments and seeing someone say to “keep us posted”. I mostly applied to MIT for their good engineering program, but I am thinking that many schools can give me an equal opportunity in my major. I just have been looking at campus tours and videos and I’m seeing a more encouraging and social atmosphere at Yale compared to my original top choice, Harvard.
All the schools I applied to have a degree of excellence in my desired career, I’m just looking to see what I like the most in terms of campus, weather, society, etc.
Oh! I’m not really worried between MIT and Yale, it’s between Harvard and Yale for me, if I even get in. Harvard has always been my top but now I’ve been researching colleges in depth and Yales campus feels sort of right with me.
I wouldn’t count any of those chickens before they hatch.
Alright.
I will be posting all my decisions together on the 2nd. Thank you everyone for helping!
Why didn’t you apply for financial aid? Harvard gives full rides if your family makes less than $65k a year.
@julia16
I did, but forgot to edit that part on the form (I copy and pasted the template from someone who didn’t apply for financial aid)
Here are my results:
Harvard: A
Stanford: A
Yale: W
Princeton: R
Duke: A
Columbia: R
Brown: W
MIT: A
UPenn: A
John Hopkins: A
Cornell: A
UC Berkeley: A
USC: A
UCSD: A
UCLA: A
Thank you everyone for your help through this process! You have all made this process so much easier and better for me! I can’t thank you all enough. You, in actuality, have helped determine my future. I will look over the scholarships again with my family, but I’m learning for Harvard almost completely. Thanks everyone!
Wow! Congratulations!