<p>hey, the juniors who are about to enter the realm of death, post your current list of safeties, matches and reaches</p>
<p>happyjanezhang:
safeties: University of Alberta
matches: McGill, Toronto, QueenslandU(Australia), Wake Forest
reaches: Columbia
still looking into: a few LACS</p>
<p>safeties: Northeastern, American
Matches: GW, BU, Brandeis
Reaches: Georgetown, Harvard, UPenn</p>
<p>safeties: Ole Miss, Auburn, Millsaps, Wofford
matches: Rice, Furman, UGA, Washington and Lee
reaches: Vandy</p>
<p>safeties: Alabama, Mississippi State, Ole Miss
matches: Maryland-College Park, Bryn Mawr
reaches: Georgia, Virginia, Washington-Seattle, NYU</p>
<p>Safeties: American, George Washington
Matches: Georgetown, UChicago, Northwestern
Reaches: Harvard, Penn Huntsman, Princeton, Columbia</p>
<p>Safeties: Ohio State, USC, Case Western (might not apply here though)
Matches: Michigan, Northwestern, Washington University in St. Louis
Reaches: Stanford, Columbia, MIT, Princeton</p>
<p>safeties: Columbia, Northwestern, Georgetown, USC
reaches: MIT, Duke, Pomona, Rice, Brown</p>
<p>I don't have a "match" yet because I'm still narrowing down exactly what I want. Do I want to kill myself with work? Do I want to cruise through, have some fun? hmmmm</p>
<p>Columbia, northwestern, georgetown are reaches. USc may be a match.</p>
<p>Hold on a second....Columbia a safety...are you an incy wincy bit out of your mind cornerstones?</p>
<p>** Safties: ** </p>
<p>[ul]
[<em>] University of Pittsburgh
[</em>] Case (maybe)
[/ul]</p>
<p>** Matches: **</p>
<p>[ul]
[<em>] University of Rochester
[</em>] Carnegie Mellon University
[/ul]</p>
<p>** Reaches: **</p>
<p>[ul]
[<em>] University of Pennsylvania
[</em>] Brown University
[<em>] Johns Hopkins University
[</em>] Washington University in St. Louis
[<em>] Cornell
[</em>] Columbia
[/ul]</p>
<p>A lot of reaches, I know.</p>
<p>You asked, I answered. I answered based on the people I've seen get into these places, and I answered based on my stats. Nonetheless, Columbia may be more of a "match," but from what I've seen/heard, I'm pretty much in. I'm not really interested, however, in the school itself - I just like the location (who doesn't, right?).</p>
<p>cornerstones, I've seen some rather underserving people get into places like Columbia, and I've seen a lot of people who could have gotten in who didn't. IMHO, unless you are nationally recognized for something or have very generous connections, you can never say you are 100% guaranteed to Columbia. </p>
<p>Anyway. </p>
<p>Safeties--Univ. Florida (Bright Futures, baby!) </p>
<p>Matches--uh...working on that. Univ. Chicago, maybe? </p>
<p>Reaches--Brown, Wellesley, Amherst</p>
<p>Safeties:</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh (Regular)
Northwestern University (Regular)</p>
<p>Matches:</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh (BA/MD)
University of Rochester (BA/MD)
Case Western Reserve University (BA/MD)
Drexel University (BA/MD)
Temple University (BA/MD)
University of Miami(BA/MD)</p>
<p>Reaches:</p>
<p>Harvard
Johns Hopkins University
Northwestern University (BA/MD)
University of Rice/Baylor (BA/MD)
George Washington University (BA/MD)
maybe Brown University (BA/MD)</p>
<p>I'm well aware.</p>
<p>Safeties: Boston University, UMass
Matches: Boston College, Uconn, Brown
Reaches: Dartmouth college</p>
<p>Safeties - haven't thought about
Matches - haven't thought about
Reaches - haven't thought about</p>
<p>Why the panic, guys? =)</p>
<p>(Haha just kidding, I'm just waiting on a decent SAT score so I can finalize my plans)</p>
<p>Safeties: WPI, Rutgers-Engineering (in-state)
Matches: Carnegie Mellon, Cornell
Reaches: MIT, Caltech</p>
<p>Safeties: Michigan and Rutgers
Matches: Chicago, Columbia, and Cornell
Reaches: Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale</p>
<p>Btw I define a match as a school whose average quantitative stats (GPA, SATs, etc) fit mine, as opposed to defining it as a school that I will probably get into.</p>
<p>Safeties:
San Francisco State, Portland State, UCSC</p>
<p>Matches:
New York University
DePaul University</p>
<p>Reaches:
UC Berkeley
Reed College</p>
<p>Safeties: UCSC...I need more.
Matches: Whitman, Brandeis....need more.
Reaches: Amherst, Vassar, Georgetown.</p>
<p>I need to make some decisions here.....once I get my new SAT scores, I'll figure it out a little more.</p>