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<p>The answer is no. Schools do NOT compare notes on applicants. (And if they did, they’d be in violation of antitrust laws.) You were just very lucky.</p>
<p>The one great advantage to applying to only one or two prestigious schools, rather than ten, is being able to spend more time writing really strong applications to those one or two.</p>
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<p>Consider the following outcomes from the CC “Stats Profile” tables.
(SAT M / SAT CR / SAT W / Rank / GPA (UW) / outcome)</p>
<p>Vassar
720 / 730 / 800 / top 5% / 3.98 / waitlisted (2014)
680 / 740 / 640 / top 10% / 4.13 / waitlisted (2014)
740 / 800 / 720 / top 10% / NA / waitlisted (2015)</p>
<p>Emory
700 / 750 / 760 / NA / 3.87 / waitlisted (2014)
790 / 790 / 730 / top 5% / 3.99 / waitlisted (2014)
680 / 800 / 800 / top 5% / 4.0 / waitlisted (2015)</p>
<p>The CC Stats Profile only covers a small sample of applicant outcomes. You can be sure that these schools waitlisted (and probably outright rejected) others with similar stats.</p>
<p>Also, nobody here seems to be talking about cost. Unless your family can afford any school in the country without aid, this needs to be factored into your reach/match/safety choices. </p>
<p>Even if cost is not an issue, be careful with some of the advice we’re seeing here. “Duke, Dartmouth, ND, Rice, Northwestern, Chicago, Williams, Amherst” as safety schools? Whether you are a credible candidate for HYP or not, these are all very selective schools. Dartmouth admitted less than 10% of its applicants this year. Amherst and Duke? 11.9% for both. Chicago admitted 13%, NU 15.3%. Moreover, these schools practice “holistic” admissions. So your stats could be through the roof, but you get rejected because the adcoms already picked a high-scoring tuba player from Northern New Jersey whose essays happened to be more interesting than yours. And please, don’t make the mistake of thinking that if you apply to N colleges with 1/N admit rates, your chances of getting into at least 1 are 100%.</p>
<p>you could consider university of minnesota-twin cities. I live in Minneapolis, it’s a great school, and admission is pretty much stats-based. you would get in there.</p>
<p>Please note that this thread was started in 2006 - I’m sure the OP appreciates the advice . . . but he or she has long since graduated from college!</p>
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Swarthmore is not one of the “ten most prestigious schools in the country”. Did you just bump a 6 year old thread to ■■■■■ for Swat?</p>
<p>This is an old thread, even stats are outdated.</p>