<p>thats what i was sayin</p>
<p>cause i dont think my gpa would really hurt me for nyu cause of my act scores
but at a school liek midd or northwestern, it definitely would</p>
<p>Coola is somewhat out of his mind.</p>
<p>IMHO:</p>
<p>NYU ED - low reach
Hopkins - reach
Northwestern - reach
Colgate - match
Middlebury - low reach
BC - match
tufts - reach</p>
<p>We could argue all day, but bottom line is that Cal is a MUCH better school than NYU, and they won't reject a major donor, so you should be fine.</p>
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Coola is somewhat out of his mind.</p>
<p>IMHO:</p>
<p>NYU ED - low reach
Hopkins - reach
Northwestern - reach
Colgate - match
Middlebury - low reach
BC - match
tufts - reach
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<p>Lol, that's pretty much what I said with the exception of NYU & Tufts w/o syndrome! :p.</p>
<p>There's no such thing. Not anymore, anyway. (Yes, perhaps 20 years ago). Just because the Harvard acceptee doesn't get into every other school doesn't mean there's a syndrome. Schools like Harvard are very interested in stats. Other schools, like Tufts, like the LACs, like so many other great universities, are interested in more than number-one student with perfect SATs.</p>
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When they see high test and low GPA they think lazy and underachiever
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<p>Look at his AP scores and Junior Year GPA... what reason would they have to think that the OP still is an underachiever?</p>
<p>My argument here is that a 3.5 UW GPA is not an "auto-reject" for schools like NYU (especially for Early Decision) if standardized test scores are above NYU's 75th percentile (which a 34 ACT is...). </p>
<p>High ACT/SAT scores show a lot of potential to succeed in college (since they show high reasoning skills), the college environment is very different than that of high school. </p>
<p>But sorry about talking about "Tufts syndrome".. that was more so out of jest ... even though schools will do that to increase their yields. </p>
<p>I do agree though, schools like Tufts definitely don't do it as much as they did years ago, especially since schools at the very top have become MUCH more competitive!</p>
<p>Yield isn't important for rankings anymore seeing its not longer a criterion in the US News ranking, which is the most popular list, albeit not completely accurate but that's a whole other story...</p>
<p>I never said the OP was an auto-reject. I just don't agree that schools like JHU and Tufts are matches for him. They're reaches (slight or high, depending) for everybody except for a very small minority of students.</p>
<p>lolabelle.. I wasn't saying that you implied that the OP was an "auto-reject". I was talking to suze by saying that a 34 ACT could definitely make up for a 3.5 GPA for NYU, especially if that 3.5 GPA is accompanied with a 4.0 GPA in Junior Year with an AP courseload! Also the fact that the OP is applying to NYU Early Decision increases his or her chances significantly. </p>
<p>Your predictions are fair.. JHU isn't an easy school to get into, I said that it was a Reach for the OP and Tufts would be at best a match (but now that I come to think of it now, the school's probably a slight Reach.)</p>
<p>Interesting though, never knew that yield was even part of the US News rankings... when was it taken out? US News is not the only thing which determines a college's "prestige". </p>
<p>Also as the OP pointed out, NYU's average GPA is only slightly above 3.5.</p>
<p>I agree that IN NYU'S CASE, the ACT might make up for a less-than-stellar GPA. As it might at BC and Colgate.</p>
<p>However, JHU and Tufts are both reaches. Tufts is more selective than JHU, if you look into acceptance rates, even though the accepted student stats are very similar. Tufts' acceptance rate is 26%, JHU's is 27%. Northwestern, which you also called a reach, has an acceptance rate of 29.7%, yet also has accepted students stats that are very close to those of the kids accepted at Tufts & JHU. The difference is therefore negligible, but if JHU and Northwestern are reaches (and for the OP, they are), Tufts must be as well.</p>
<p>A high ACT will probably not make up for the GPA at schools like JHU, Tufts, Northwestern, and Middlebury. Therefore they remain reaches.</p>
<p>I agree that rankings are not the only thing that determine schools' prestige, but people usually argue that schools would reject people they knew were using them as a safety to keep up their yield and therefore help themselves on rankings. My point is that is no longer a consideration--if it ever was. I don't know when yield was dropped -- read it somewhere.</p>
<p>wait so tufts is reach.
or slight reach?</p>
<p>BIGTWIX: Tufts would probably be a moderate Reach. lolabelle makes a good point, the applicant pools to all three schools have very similar stats.</p>
<p>BIGTWIX:</p>
<p>UCB/UCLA: Slight Reach
UCSD: Match
UCI: Safe Match</p>