Hey! I applied to these top schools. I already got into my safety schools and was wondering my chances here assuming i get rejected ED.
Ethnicity: Asian
Major: Chem BE/ Chemical Engineering
Stats:
SAT: 1570
Subject Tests: Physics, Math II. 790 800
GPA: 3.9
Class Size: 300
Rank: 9
APs(Prepare for a lot)[All 5 btw]:
-Calculus AB, BC
-Physics I, II, C(E&M and Mech)
-Computer Science A
-Lang Comp
-WHAP
-APUSH
ECS:
●Science Olympiad (9 th grade – present): Member; 2nd place Coding and Algorithms Texax Regionals
(2015); 4th place Astronomy TX Regionals ; 2nd Place Regionals Team; 3rd Place
Regionals and States Team
● Astrophysics Research project with Texas A&M, about to get published!
Lead Researcher in School Club
● Physics Club (9 th grade – present): President.
● Chemistry Club (10 th grade – present): Member.
● Future Business Leaders of America (9 th grade – present): Member.
● French Alliance Club (10 th grade – present): Member.
● Model United Nation (9 th grade – 10 th grade): Member.
Volunteering:
●Volunteering at a volleyball camp for the poor in the south side. (Consistent, good amount of hours)
●Volunteered with a hospital (Weekly, 1.5 hours a week about)
●Random Volunteering stuff through Honor Societies(Sporadic)
Sports/ Music
●Varsity Volleyball
Played the sax for 7 years if that means anything
You have great stats. Good ECs. You should be in the running for all of them. Obviously highly selective schools, so no guarantees. But I suspect you will have a few schools to choose from.
You will probably get into Cornell. The others are still a toss up, but you should get into some of them. One of my friends had similar qualifications (36 ACT, SG President, research, many APs, athletics, music, service, etc.), but was just rejected from Stanford ED, so there are no guarantees at this level, although I’m sure you knew that already. Good luck, but from what I can see you are very competitive, so don’t lose hope even if you hear bad news early.
Your stats may result in Tufts syndrome-rejection because you have good numbers and they think you’re using the school as a backup.
Best chances are at WashU and Rice since they like high standardized test scores.
people are really out here using ivy league and top 20 schools as backups?
Tufts isn’t quite Top 20 but they have had a reputation where students with good grades/test scores used the school as a backup in case they were rejected by the Ivies and the school would reject them.Hence the term ‘Tufts syndrome.’
WashU did not require supplemental essays until this year. This doesn’t mean that students use Ivies or Top 20 schools as backups.
@Hamurtle I feel like your perception of Tufts is a little outdated. Yes, it used to be used as a back-up for ivy rejects, but given its most recent middle 50% ACT range of 32-35, I doubt Tufts rejects students whose test scores are “too high.” I think Tufts really cares about supplemental essays, in which many applicants fail to provide a good narrative even though they may have the stats.
In terms of the intellect on campus, I’d say Tufts beats some schools that are ranked higher than it — after a certain point, rankings become meaningless.
^Tufts is an extremely competitive school to get into with acceptance rates consistently around 14.6%. The mean stats of those accepted on SATs for 2022 was 746 math and 721 english. So your scores and stats look solid. I couldn’t find stats for actual matriculated students, GPA or yield. Common Data Set can give you more info that is less subjective then rankings.
I have no idea if what was described as the “outdated” perception of Tufts Syndrome did or does exist. No idea how the admissions department organizes their class.
An observation I personally experienced (an turned my kid off when visiting) was Tufts students compulsion to tell you that they had other great options but choose Tufts. We had our Tufts tour guide tell us all about Cornell (in great detail) and why she choose not to attend. We then met another student who explained that his alternative choice Dartmouth was in the middle of nowhere compared to Medford’s proximity to Boston. We then saw a student with a Duke sweatshirt stroll by. By the end of our visit it felt as if the Tufts kids needed to validate the quality of Tufts by association. Turned my kid off having visited on the suggestion of an alum he respected. We joked about the fact that Tufts was the only school we visited where kids wore sweat shirts from schools they applied to. Several of my son’s friends noted the same phenomenon.
Shame because the school was beautiful and the “adult” reputation is top notch.