Choosing a Practical College?

<p>Based on the limited information supamilk has provided, I’ll toss out these suggestions (listed from more to less selective):
Johns Hopkins
Carnegie Mellon
University of Rochester
Case Western</p>

<p>JHU (like Cornell) is less selective than Harvard or Stanford, but still very selective. Here are the CR-M-W scores and class rank of a few students who have been rejected/waitlisted within the past few years (according to the CC Stats Profile):
780/740/800, top 5% (rejected)
730/760/790, top 5% (rejected)
700/800/750, top 5% (waitlisted)
720/800/770, top 5% (waitlisted)</p>

<p>Some of the Harvard rejected/waitlisted applicants in the past 3 years looked like this (again, according to the CC Stats Profile):
800/800/800, top 5%, 4.0 GPA (rejected)
800/790/800, top 5%, 4.0 GPA (rejected)
800/800/710, top 5%, 4.0 GPA (rejected)
730/800/750, top 5%, 4.0 GPA (rejected)
700/800/760, top 5%, 4.7 GPA (rejected)
800/780/760, top 5%, 4.0 GPA (rejected)
800/800/790, top 5%, 3.99 GPA (rejected)
740/780/800, top 5%, 4.0 GPA (rejected)
800/750/800, top 5%, 4.0 GPA (waitlisted)
800/760/800, top 5%, 4.17 GPA (waitlisted)
790/800/770, top 5%, 4.0 GPA (waitlisted)
800/770/800, top 5%, 4.0 GPA (waitlisted)</p>