None of the Ivies. Maybe BC. Probably not NU unless you showed a lot of interest and you get lucky. No opinion on the others.
@fretfulmother I am in an identical situation as he is in haha. We did pretty much everything the same, but he seemed to be more polished in his approach, so I guess we will have to see what happens in the end! If I were you, I’d place the bet on him getting more acceptances, to be completely honest.
Here is a hint everyone: I am already deciding between two very decent/top tier (in my opinion, at least) colleges, and have been rejected at a college or two! 
Let’s see how the guessing games goes off of this haha.
@IAmTheGOAT - good luck, and I’m interested in reading more about both of your results when it’s time. I"m not that good at chancing, so I’ll just watch 
Hey there everyone! Good to be back. No, @IAmTheGOAT is not me, but from what I can see we took very similar approaches to our college application process.
@TheAtlantic No need to be “disgusted” just because some people are a little more creative in their approach…
Here are all my schools:
Amherst College
Boston College
Brown University
College of William and Mary
Colorado School of Mines
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Fordham University
Georgetown University
Harvard University
Lehigh University
Northwestern University
NYU Stern
Princeton University
Rutgers University
Stanford University
University of Chicago
University of Michigan
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt University
Villanova University
Williams College
Yale University
Yale-NUS College
So far, I have been accepted to Fordham, Villanova, U Pitt and Rutgers, waitlisted at UChicago, Colorado School of Mines, William and Mary, and Notre Dame, and rejected from Boston College, Northwestern, UVa, Vanderbilt, and Yale-NUS. The rejections from Boston College and Vanderbilt came as a bit of a surprise but I wasn’t too shocked (Boston College was the one place I submitted a rather weak essay); however, getting waitlisted at Colorado and W&M was very surprising indeed - my ACT is a full 5 points higher than the averages at those schools. I’m thinking it’s Tufts syndrome. Currently I’m waiting on all the Ivy’s and I’ve got my eye on NYU Stern, Amherst, and UMich, and perhaps Lehigh as a safety/low match.
@Baloney1011 it was a joke…no need to have an attitude.
Im very happy for anyone to get acceptances wherever they do, and I look forward to seeing how GOAT’s approach turns out.
You however have displayed an entitled attitude throughout these forums that leads me not to be surprised about your current results
@Baloney1011 Well, all the decisions should be in by now. Any updates?
IAmTheGoat - You really are a goat if, after all your requests for predictions, you decline to report results.
Wait, where are the shotgunner’s results? Is there another thread? Came back to see how it’d shake out, the predictions vs. reality , and nothing? Should we assume IAmTheGoat got rejected at all his top choices and feels too horrible to let us know?
@MYOS1624 @woogzmama - both @IAmTheGoat and @Baloney1011 have been very quiet lately. (I haven’t seen any replies from them in the past few days, at least on the shotgunning threads.) My guess is, you are right about the false hubris.
Hey there everybody…
Things sorta worked out. I got the “transfer option” at Cornell, so I always have the opportunity to graduate with a Cornell degree (as long as I don’t screw up my grades in wherever I decide to enroll next year). I was waitlisted at a whole bunch of other places. Here they are, in my preference order:
U Chicago
Williams College
NYU Stern
U Mich
Notre Dame
William and Mary
Lehigh
Tulane
Washington and Lee
Colorado School of Mines
So, basically, I guess you could say I was “accepted” to Cornell in the sense that I’m guaranteed to graduate with a Cornell degree as long as I maintain a decent GPA next year at some other institution, and it doesn’t really matter where I go for that year. Right now, I’m really hoping to get into Chicago or Williams off the waitlist. But that’s a separate matter of course.
If I don’t get into Chicago or Williams, this October, I will apply to Oxford/Cambridge/LSE. Since my standardized test scores are top-notch and my interview skills are very good but my high school grades are really bad, I’m an ideal applicant to top English schools, which don’t care about American high school grades, and put nearly all emphasis on scores and interviews.
Anyhow, I’ll still probably be hovering around the Chicago and Williams forums, and in the international section to figure out what to do there. Whether my method worked out or not is for you guys to decide. Does Cornell transfer option count as “acceptance?” Conditionally, I guess. But those are the results, so yeah, make what you will of them!
I’ve made this post in a few different threads btw.
@Baloney1011 Did you get in anywhere, though?
Your only hope off the WL is if your family can be full pay and you can convey that elegantly when you update them on your wonderful 2nd semester achievements and new awards. Otherwise, forget the WL. Where are you going to attend college for your 1st year pre Cornell?
It’ll be interesting to see if @IAmTheGOAT updates how it compares to Baloney’s. For now, it seems we have one example of shotgunning being little more than a failure by garnering so few acceptances.
@redpoodles
From post #23
Thank you for updating, Baloney. You showed some integrity in doing so.
We know a student who went to Pitt Honors for a year, entered Cornell as a sophomore, and then went on to medical school. Had an outstanding academic experience. Good luck to you!
Thank you for coming clean @baloney1011. So Fordham, Villanova, U Pitt, and Rutgers were your only acceptances?
EDIT: That’s wildly unsuccessful.
I wouldn’t really count waitlists as successes, so I’m seeing it as 4/31 - even more unsuccessful. Good thing is that future shotgunners might take a more balanced approach after seeing these results.
@irlandaise I thought those were the acceptances… I am revising my post
@CaliCash -
Post #23:
Post #29:
So, 4/31 acceptances, 10/31 waitlists, 17/31 rejections, 1/31 being Cornell’s guaranteed transfer, unless I missed one.
@irlandaise Thanks for the breakdown. And ouch to basically 27 rejections.