<p>Hey everyone, I've posted my chances before, but right now I'm searching for something a bit different. I've got a list of colleges and I'm trying to separate them into categories (high reach, low reach, in). If you guys could provide suggestions for more colleges and give me an idea of how the list looks, I'd greatly appreciate it. I wasn't getting any response anywhere else, so I thought I'd post it here, I understand that this is not specifically about Yale, and I'm not looking for chances (even though it may seem that way), just a general idea of high reach, low reach, and "in". Thanks!
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(BTW, I will take the ACT once more and am almost 100% sure I will get a 34+ so I'm going off that stat)</p>
<p>High Reach
Yale* (top choice)
Harvard
MIT
Brown
Washington University</p>
<p>And, why do you put Washington University in the same category as Harvard, Yale and MIT? I’m not sure you are comparing the colleges correctly. Go to each website and look at their acceptance rates. You also might consider going to College Board and logging into their college comparison charts. It shows you how you “stack up” at each college. I can’t imagine that the results for Washington University will be the same as for Yale.</p>
<p>Wrightm: I do not predict chances, but this is a scary list. You have no safety schools, and no real matches, either. You’ve got a bunch of reaches, and you can’t count on raising your ACT by 3 points. That’s a really big jump. </p>
<p>Please, go to the College Board website to see admissions rates and average stats for admitted students at schools on your list and get a ballpark idea of your chances of admission. Tufts and JHU, which you list as safeties, admitted just 27% of applicants in the last reported year (probably the 2008-09 cycle). That means they rejected roughly 3/4 of applicants. They are safety schools for no one. For tippy-top applicants, they might be matches, but not comfortable ones. You need to add some schools. </p>
<p>It looks like your focus is research universities. Why is Wisconsin, your state flagship and a great school, not on your list as a safety?</p>
<p>^ I’m not sure how relevant that is to coming up with this college list. I can see why that might be an issue if he were applying ED but some of those schools have need blind admissions and most of the others will competitively meet the financial need of admitted students.</p>
<p>Thank you for the comments. To wjb, that’s really why I put this out there. I don’t know how to really differentiate things and am totally unsure for safety schools and the like. I actually really appreciate your response. If you’d like to explain to me (by pm) a good method of how to go about organizing a list, I’d really appreciate it. I was totally lost.
to respond to why I am not applying to Madison, it just comes from the fact I dislike Madison in general. The city itself is alright, but I’m not a huge fan of the Madtown U in general. I greatly dislike the size of the school and the handful of interactions I’ve had with it have not been overly positive (save the football games :)).</p>
<p>You need to venture over to the FA & Scholarship forum and read some of the sad stories about students not being able to attend because the 100% need schools that they applied to calculate their need as considerably less than what their parents considered their need. And don’t forget loans, only a handful of schools don’t include loans in the FA packages. It happens every year like clockwork, and while it may be less likely for someone fortunate enough to be accepted by HYP or S, the OP doesn’t have anything close to a financial safety on their list unless they can afford 50k+/yr.</p>
<p>Here’s an oldie but goodie thread that should be required reading for all families of HS srs:</p>