<p>I sent off my teacher recs a week ago, and am having doubts if I applied to enough schools. I really don't want to bug them and send them another one, so tell me what you think</p>
<p>Reach: Harvard, Yale, Wharton</p>
<p>Match: Princeton (sprint fball recruit), Notre Dame, MIT (top choice), Northwestern, Dartmouth (not sure about this one, maybe closer to a reach.)</p>
<p>Safety: UMICH (instate)</p>
<p>How is MIT a match? I would have gotten another safety but you should be ok.</p>
<p>okay, um, </p>
<p>it seems to me that you applied to mostly reaches, with a match and a safety.</p>
<p>are you guaranteed admission to princeton with your recruited athlete status, cuz if not then it is a reach. MIT, Northwestern, and Dartmouth should perhaps be reaches as well (unless once again you are guaranteed admittance)</p>
<p>I would consider it a match because I have a near perfect ACT (99.99 percentile), perfect SAT IIs, #1 rank (unshared), and very atypical ECs. I'll be playing fball and track, and judging by their past seasons (except the Morton kid) they can get all the help they can get in those areas) My chances there are much better than at Harvard, yale, or wharton. I guess I'm ranking MIT relative to my reaches.</p>
<p>I have about a 90% shot at NW. A kid from my school last year got in with far worse test scores, ECs, and GPA than I have currently.</p>
<p>Princeton is also about 90%. Recruits do not always go through for whatever reason, although AI is not a problem for me (I'm 236). The coach was very clear about this.</p>
<p>I just want to know if I applied to enough schools (I was thinking Columbia, Duke, UB).</p>
<p>Ummm.... You sent out applicants already? Isn't it kinda early?</p>
<p>I start fball next week (6hrs/day) I don't want to fool around with it then, considering AP classes start in August at my school.</p>
<p>Are you OK with UMich if the world ends and you're rejected everywhere? Or for that matter Notre Dame.</p>
<p>Because every year there is one kid who inexplicably gets utterly screwed by the process.</p>
<p>And, in my experience, coaches' early reads on admission can be wrong. And sprint football won't carry nearly as much weight as regular football in admissions. </p>
<p>The bottom line is that you've done a risky thing. But as long as you're 100% ok with your safety, it's OK.</p>
<p>I'd still get another safety somewhere, just in case you get REALLY unlucky.</p>
<p>that's why I have been thinking, in the rare case I get screwed. Do you have any recommendations for other schools I could apply to?</p>
<p>What major, and what are you looking for in a school? I sort of assumed Engineering by looking at the schools, but just to be sure.</p>
<p>I'm guessing Econ/Business, he did apply to Wharton after all!</p>
<p>yep 10char</p>
<p>you applied to enough schools but maybe they aren't the best balance of reach/match/safety. But you should be fine as you'll probably definitely get into UMich</p>
<p>looks good..</p>
<p>unless you dispersed your effort or rushed these apps, you should be able to get into at least one of those schools besides umich</p>
<p>One more safety would be advisable....just in case. Will Michigan tell you early or are you trying ED/EA at any of these other schools? It would be ver nice to have one school "in the bank" that you like while you wait for the others.</p>
<p>Your stats are awesome but, as noted, sometimes weird things happen at these top schools. You could add a smaller LAC, if you have no objections to those, where your football skills might be an attraction and you are at the very top of the applicant pool.</p>
<p>Sorry, but Princeton/MIT are 'matches' for no one, not even on football. Plenty of people in the same position as you get rejected. You seem to have misunderstood what a 'match' is; try for schools that aren't so selective.</p>
<p>As a last resort backup just in case I would apply to Wisconsin or Indiana. Like barring some sort of major eff up you'll get into at least Michigan, but stranger things have happened, I suppose.</p>
<p>I think You can get into Chicago easily if you write good essays</p>
<p>Everyone of those schools is a reach for anyone, except Umich and mabye Notre dame</p>
<p>I'd say you prob should have applied to at least SOME schools not in the top 10 (not counting those other 2), just in case the admissions officers are each one is having a bad day</p>
<p>and MIT is not a match for any human being - perfect gpa, president of the world ,cured cancer, #1 athlete in existence, watever - they still might reject u anyway</p>