<p>White/Male/Long Island</p>
<p>Catholic all-boys high school, highly competitive and academically rigorous</p>
<p>GPA- 94.333 average
SAT VERBAL-670
SAT MATH-690
SAT WRITING-740 (12 ON THE ESSAY)
MATH 1C SAT II-660
LITERATURE SAT II-660
ACT-31 </p>
<p>Extracurriculars
-4 years Speech and Debate (pretty successful)
-Spent 2 years on Yearbook, Math Club, and a fewyears of about 3 other clubs
-I run a popular baseball website and make advertisiting money off of it
-Co-president of a youth organization
-After volunteering at organ donor network, creating a youth-based webstie for organ donation awareness</p>
<p>-Good essays</p>
<p>Now, do you think I can make...?</p>
<p>Tufts Early Decision 2
Boston College Early Action
Colgate/Cornell (big reach) Regular Decision</p>
<p>ALSO-ANY ADVICE? I WANNA TAKE ANOTHER SAT 2 OR ACT AGAIN, CAN I BEFORE RD?</p>
<p>bump....anyone please?</p>
<p>What's your class rank?</p>
<p>Tufts - good chance
Boston College -in
Colgate-good chance
Cornell -rejected</p>
<p>Do you think there's anything else I should/can do?</p>
<p>any1 else, bueller, bueller?</p>
<p>Luda,</p>
<p>My blueberry yum yums say that Cornell is prbly the only reach on your list; the avg SAT at Cornell is right around a 1400, and SAT IIs prbly should be around 700 or above. A 1360 SAT I/31 ACT prbly won't hurt/help you as much as those SAT IIs, so I suggest you retake those SAT IIs or take some new ones. Dec SAT IIs should work, not sure about January. Just my opinion, so it's (probably) not necessarily correct or right.</p>
<p>thanks alot marks, i like das kapital, good work</p>
<p>Tufts - slight reach, your ED will help you
Colgate - match/safety
Cornell - slight reach RD
BC - match/safety</p>
<p>thanks lolabelle, btw-if i was to do a tufts interview, any advice?</p>
<p>Just be yourself. And know what you like about Tufts -- be ready to give unique, specific answers about why you want to commit yourself to being at Tufts for four years through ED. Good luck!</p>
<p>thanks lola, any1 else wanna chance me?</p>
<p>bump</p>
<p>chance me, all the cool kids r doing it!</p>
<p>i really dont believe this....
tufts slight reach ED while cornell slight reach RD</p>
<p>dude cornell is harder even if u reverse it (meaning cornell ED tufts RD)</p>
<p>i would say cornell RD is a reach</p>
<p>tufts ED would be more of a slight reach..maybe high match...if u wait till RD hen it will be slight reach</p>
<p>well she does go to tufts so there might be some bias lol</p>
<p>yeah cornell im not really concerned with, I would like to know Tufts, BC, and Colgate the most</p>
<p>I see Cornell about as competitive as Tufts (in programs they can compare to ea/o in... for example, don't compare Tufts A&S to Cornell's Hotel School because there just isn't one at Tufts, and so on), in terms of caliber of applicants (stats-wise, etc.) I got into both and know many people who did too, as I know kids who got into one or the other.</p>
<p>And, not that this means that one school is better than the other, but it is actually harder to get into Tufts.</p>
<p>Cornell accepted 34% of its applicants last year. Tufts accepted 26.6%.</p>
<p>first...ur statistics are off...cornell accepted 27%..and tufts accepted 28% pay 15 bucks and get usnews 2006...</p>
<p>if u wanna compare school to school, we can only compare A&S and engineering..since those are the only schools tufts have</p>
<p>A&S are comparable..given...
engineering...cornell owns .. u cant even argue...</p>
<p>and cornell's acceptance rate is also significantly raised by the 3 state mandated colleges which of course are not comparable in this case...so cornell is in fact harder to get in....if u r talking about A&S </p>
<p>now i m not saying that cornell is better than tufts or vice versa..just saying..cornell is no easier than tufts...and cornell RD is definitely harder than tufts ED(specially with all the tufts syndrome crap)</p>
<p>oh and as a matter of fact my college counsellor put cornell ED (legacy) as group 1 and tufts as group 2 for me when we were doing categorizing.... well but then...this might not be a valid point for this argument since tufts looks upon my school favorably...they only accepted 4 out of 6 from the 2.8-3.1 GPA range last 2 years.....but just putting it out there</p>
<p>thanks guys, any1 else wanna chance me?</p>
<p>Bearcats: I used numbers from the schools' admissions websites.</p>
<p>On this website, Tufts Admissions says it accepted 26.6% of applicants to the class of 2010: <a href="http://admissions.tufts.edu/?pid=121%5B/url%5D">http://admissions.tufts.edu/?pid=121</a>.</p>
<p>On this website, Cornell Admissions says 20,098 applied for a spot in the class of 2010, and they accepted 6,934. If you do the math, that is 34.5%: <a href="http://admissions.cornell.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://admissions.cornell.edu/</a> (download the "Class of 2010 Profile" PDF).</p>
<p>I can't explain the disparity between US News & the actual admissions offices' websites. But I'm going to trust the schools over a magazine ranking, as the schools are the ones that actually receive, process, and count their applicants and acceptees.</p>
<p>All this being said, I will repeat what I said in my last post, this does not mean one school is better than the other. I think they're both excellent schools and comparable in many ways (in terms of academics). The types of schools they are (namely, their size) make them very different.</p>