<p>Stanford isn't a match for anybody...sorry.</p>
<p>Safety : Rutgers, Temple
Match: Boston University, Amherst, Swathmore
Reach: MIT, Harvard, UPenn, Columbia</p>
<p>Haha we have similar tastes, well except for my lack of ivies :P</p>
<p>Temple and BU =D</p>
<p>Safety: University of Iowa
Match: Wellesley College, Northwestern, UCLA, Washington U-St. Louis
Reach: UPenn, Duke</p>
<p>Reaches: Brown, Stanford, Caltech
Semi-reach: Georgetown (Early Action School)
Match: UCSD, Johns Hopkins, Tufts, Emory, Richmond
Safety: RPI, Penn State Regular</p>
<p>Safety: IU-Bloomington, Ball State
Match: UChicago, College of William and Mary
Semireaches-reaches: Cornell, Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>all you people who think berekeley and northwestern and any ivies are matches are going to have sad awakenings next year...</p>
<p>jakem333, although you're probably right, I've heard numerous times that Stanford really likes music kids ==> I am pretty much convinced that I have excelled as far as anyone possibly could in music (both comp and saxophone) while still maintaining a great GPA in a private school with a very full class load (and still participating and winning in other ecs).</p>
<p>Safety: Gettysburg College
Reach/Match: Williams College <3<3</p>
<p>Safety: RPI, NYU, CUNY Honors ?
Match: (these might be slight reaches but based on school stats, I am an above average candidate) Cornell, Columbia SEAS
Reaches: MIT, Stanford</p>
<p>I agree with justcallmefunk, berkeley, ucla, northwestern, ivies, stanford, john hopkins are not usually matches for anyone especially since they have such a low percent acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Intended Major: Business or Economics</p>
<p>Safe: CSU Chico, Cal Poly, UC Davis</p>
<p>Match: UCLA, USC</p>
<p>Reach: Stanford</p>
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<li>I want to stay in CA.</li>
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<p>Intended Major: Computer Science and/or Biomedical Engineering
Safety: University of Florida
Match: University of Miami, Florida Institute of Technology
Reach: Brown, Yale, Princeton, UPenn</p>
<p>Some of you are being really unrealistic. HYPS are reaches for everyone, as well as all the other Ivies, though some of the less selective ones less so.</p>
<p>Ultra-Safety: Saint Peter's College
Safeties- Rutgers NB, Seton Hall
Matches- TCNJ, BC, BU
Reach- Princeton (Probably ED), University of Pennsylvania</p>
<p>Major - Math</p>
<p>Safety - Upitt, Rutgers
Match - Carnegie Mellon
Reach - U Chicago, Rice, Northwestern</p>
<p>iljets10 - I agree. However, post upon post on cc.com related to Stanford admission has contended that if you have participated in all state music or anything above all state, you are immediately placed in the top applicant pool.</p>
<p>Safety - Michigan, Rutgers
Match - Chicago, Columbia, Cornell
Reach - Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Yale</p>
<p>It depends on how you define safety/match/reach. Personally, I define a safety as a school whose quantitative averages are below my scores, a match as a school whose quantitative averages match my scores, and a reach as a school whose quantitative averages are higher than my scores. With a couple exceptions.</p>
<p>And there we have it-- a living proof of the Tufts Syndrome, and he's not even a student there yet!</p>
<p>And the rest of you, give the juniors a break. Most of you seniors are just upset and crying about some junior here listing the college you got into as their "match." Tufts Syndrome anyone? I'm actually pretty impressed how well-informed the juniors here are. Their lists and perceived notions about the colleges are decently accurate. And I'm sorry but, yes, Northwester, JHU, UCLA are matches for many kids out there, and even Stanford for a very few. </p>
<p>Advice to the juniors: don't be discouraged by the admissions rates, after all, HYPS gotta accept SOME of you right? It could very well be you. Keep reaching as high as you can, as long as you got 1 safety and 3 matches to back them up.</p>
<p>technically top schools such as harvard and mit are matches for a very select few, despite many people saying, they are a reach for everyone.</p>
<p>for ex. when Bulgaria won the IMO in 2003, the people on the team with perfect scores immediately got offered admission to MIT, harvard, brown, princeton, etc..</p>
<p>more common would be people with impressive RSI + USAMO status (for MIT especially)</p>