<p>Regarding HYPC or CHYMPS: Does anyone know on how much admissions are based on passion/personality vs. scores/grades/GPA between these schools? I know Stanford underlines the personality factor and MIT underlines the scores factor, but for the others? Obviously it's good to have a balance but it's good to keep in mind when applying.</p>
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<p>I would put it this way:
At schools that send a lot (say more than 5) of kids and even more applications to each of CHYMPS grades and test scores rule (as well as difficulty of courses). Very few surprises on the history of admissions tables and graphs.
When it comes toschools that rarely dend kids to CHYMPS (say not even val and sal get into one or moreof those) - it's more about the presonality.</p>
<p>Oh I see. That kind of sucks for me then cause I go to a pretty big public school that has sent maybe two or threekids to CHYMPS schools as far back as I can recall. Dang.</p>
<p>Thanks anyways citymom!</p>
<p>Go HYPSMCB</p>
<p>is "C" caltech or Chicago?</p>
<p>All of them count, perhaps to varying degree at each college and with each reader.</p>
<p>The C may be Cornell?</p>
<p>It's definitely Caltech.</p>
<p>wouldnt the "C" be columbia?</p>
<p>My first thought was Cornell, but now that you say Columbia, maybe that's right. Perhaps it should be C3HYMPS (3 for Caltech - or 4 for Chicago). I like the CHYMPS anagram tho - quite fitting :)</p>
<p>lol @ Pyroclasm response</p>
<p>C is definitely Caltech.</p>
<p>OP: don't forget that at schools that sends a lot of kids to HYPS every year there is another issue - competition from your classmates. So getting top grades takes more personality.</p>
<p>Yes, if M=MIT, then C must = Caltech!</p>
<p>(C)altech
(H)arvard
(Y)ale
(M)IT
(P)rinceton
(S)tanford</p>
<p>C alternate could be Columbia.</p>
<p>C is Caltech (California Institute of Technology), which happens to be by a wide margin the school with the highest testing students.. The progression goes like this:</p>
<p>HYP = Harvard, Yale, Princeton
HYPS = add Stanford
HYPSM = add MIT
CHYMPS = add Caltech
Ivies = the eight Ivy League Athletic Conference members, HYP + Brown, Penn, Dartmouth, Columbia and Cornell.</p>
<p>CHYMPS is what I use for "top 6". I don't find any value in omitting Stanford, MIT and Caltech (or west coast), so I don't ever think in terms of only HYP. When I am trying to determine the quality of graduating students at a high school, I ask "how many were accepted (or enrolled - different question) at CHYMPS. For examply, my daughter's school sent 8 student to CHYMPS last year, out of a class of 510. It is therefore a very high achieving public high school for Los Angeles. My second question is how many enrolled in Top 40. The same high school sent 52 students to Top 40 (my own creation -- Top 25 Universities + Top 15 LACs). The third question is how many enrolled in 4 year colleges. The same high school sent 250 to 4 year colleges. As you can see it is a very diverse student body with regard to college aspirations. I personally don't find value in "the Ivies" either, because like HYP, it excludes west coast.</p>
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(H)arvard
(Y)ale
(M)IT
(P)rinceton
(S)tanford
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<p>Close. The H is definitely Hampshire College, though.</p>
<p>Haha, nice. If I had to make my own CHYMPS acronym, it'd be Columbia, Haverford, Yale, Michigan, Princeton/Penn (tough choice), and Swarthmore.</p>
<p>Chicago
Hampshire
Yale
Macalester
Pitzer
Skidmore</p>