What order should I open: I applied to Penn, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia
I might be late to the party but at least I’m here!! I just want to get my rejections out of the way 
(I applied to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia). My essays were actually decent and my numbers are good, but my recs suck and my ex’s aren’t godtier (just average overachiever :P)
@wormholes no they don’t. The major has a special circumstantial thing where you have to do it through the biology major with a concentration on biochem (which is what my essay is all about cries). I just selected chemical biology thinking that was the same thing but it isn’t
My order is (in order of least to most likely):
Harvard
Yale
Princeton (although HYP are interchangeable in terms of unlikeliness)
UPenn (didn’t get the missing financial documents notice which is positively correlated with acceptance and applied for biomedical engineering but accidentally sent in psych teacher rec instead of bio)
Columbia (likely letter)
Cornell (likely letter)
I just can’t wait to get all my decisions so I can start planning college visits.
Also, who else got the PFAA email and got a little excited before they realized the correlation stopped last year?
Would it be better to open from least to most likely to most to least likely? I want the one that’s gonna give me the least anxiety and tears
I applied to Dartmouth. I will open my decisions in the following order:
Dartmouth
The order is subject to change depending on how I’m feeling.
I’m going in a random order @emli8100 (https://www.random.org/lists/)
@basquiat Didn’t get the email even though I have missing docs so maybe there is a correlation this year?
I actually cut up strips of paper and pulled them out of a hat, haha I’m lame
Yale (I was deferred SCEA so this works out nicely lol)
NYU (Ik it’s mixed in here too)
Princeton
Columbia
Dartmouth
Harvard
Cornell
UPenn
I feel like on Thursday my CC account will be flooded with notifications from all my bookmarked threads.
Parent here. Would anyone care to offer an opinion? Kid accepted Northeastern honors for liberal arts fields. If accepted to Dartmouth, money being equal, would it be crazy to choose NEU over D? Thanks for your reasoning and good luck to you all.
@binky17 Why are you considering NEU over D?
@binky17 if there is no money issue or any other important issue, I personally do not see why one would choose NEU over Dartmouth. Why are you thinking of doing so?
@realityhitshard oh, I am not; my child is the applicant. But I am starting to feel that the city and its culture are calling. None of this matters, of course, unless and until an acceptance from Dartmouth. But I guess I just want to know if the accepted wisdom would say that it would be crazy to choose NEU over D? Back in the day, it would’ve been. I just don’t know anymore and haven’t been that involved. The landscape has shifted. Is it a no brainer in terms of education and opportunities? This is a genuine inquiry, forgive me if I seem a bit dim, haha. The perception is that NEU is on the ascent and D, maybe not so. What do you guys, who are way more tapped in, think?
@Penn95 pls see ^ #254, thx!
@binky17 I don’t think that’s crazy at all. I also got into NEU honors and they seem to have some great opportunities going for them! It’s my top choice at the moment as well.
@binky17 this thread has mostly (prestige valuing) students, so you’ll probably get alot of " “if money is not an issue why would you not choose the ivy”.
I personally think fit is most important. So if your kid values being in a great city vs in the middle of rural New Hampshire, with all the opportunities the city gives- that is most important. Also, does Dartmouth have what your son is looking for in a major? If not, that is a factor too.
@basquiat I applied to the same Ivies as you!! We sure have good taste applying to the most selective ones eh ><
Hi @suzyQ7 ! The major/minor conundrum is probably the salient issue at this point (if he sticks with his prospective fields, Dartmouth is definitely stronger). The point is almost certainly moot anyway, given how hard it is to get in. I just like to track all possibilities, whereas he takes it as it comes. I guess that’s why I am on CC and he isn’t.