<p>faleslife, have confident in yourself. I just had a dinner with my tutor yersterday who is
a phd researcher at UC berkeley Dept ofEngineering. He gave me suggestion that I should go for the strongest Dept where my interest is in, not the name of the school. He has many friends who got accepted at Ivies, some are not happy after one year. He especially mentioned Yale, he said its Engineering Dept SUCKS. </p>
<p>I am interested in CS and he suggested me to go after CMU which is the #1 in the country. I don’t have a good stat as yours. My uw gpa 3.72, wt 3.88 worst than you,
my sat1 only 2200, sat subject MATH2 800, Physics 800 Chem 790 History 770. My
overall is worst than you,but I’ll try for the best and go for CMU. </p>
<p>Anyway if you so determine for Ivies, wish you the best luck</p>