Georgetown as Safety???

<p>@theartysone: The adult you talked to clearly thinks it is 1978. Congratulations on having stats good enough to guarantee that your paperwork will not be put through the shredder upon arrival at the admissions office of (most) of the top 25 schools in the country, and will likely end up on the stack of 4000 or so from which they will pick their final 1500 to whom they will make offers… now all you need to do is hope your essay about the best hamburger you ever ate isn’t read by a vegan AO, or that your AO isn’t saving a spot for a particular favorite at the slotting meeting on the same week your app gets across his/her desk. Or maybe you just look like your interviewer’s old boyfriend and she writes you up as “smug looking” for no good reason. Point being that it truly is a crapshoot once you have met the numbers (and you CLEARLY do that so please do not worry there). At a certain point, it becomes some lightning strike that actually pushes you across the line or, alternatively, keeps you from crossing that line. My year, the valedictorian failed to get into ANY of her schools except a state college with a low theshold for admission. No one knows why. Her scores were superb, her resume in general looked great, but there was something there that led 5 or 6 top schools to all flee… assuming no collusion amongst them, it seems possible that maybe it was 5 discrete things, different at each of the schools in question, but taken on the whole resulted in her ending up in a place she hardly envisioned. Oh and I think she had Georgetown as her safety too. :wink: … Just kidding. Good luck. You are well on the way. But take nothing for granted.</p>