<p>what are some matches for high stats applicants, ie applicants with 2350+ SAT1, 2350+ SAT 2's, and 4.0 UW?</p>
<p>What do you want to study? Large or small school preference? Geographic preference? Financial aid a factor?</p>
<p>Without knowing, the only useful one I can come up with is your state flagship.</p>
<p>medium to large universities preferred. small liberal arts schools seem boring to me. cost isn't a concern. right now i am thinking about UMich and UCLA as stats-driven match schools. i also like northwestern but it would be more like a reach than a match, right?</p>
<p>Tufts, Northwestern, JHU, state flagships like UCB and UVA, Middlebury, Colby, Carleton, Claremont McKenna.</p>
<p>Whoops, wrote this before I saw no LACs, but frankly I'd consider them if you don't get into the very top tier and hope to transfer.</p>
<p>Son thought New College was incredibly boring and picked UF as his safety. However, he picked Pomona as his number one choice because of the 5C consortium...Pomona, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, Claremont McKenna & Scripps are all walking distance from each other, and it actually can give you more choice than you might have in a larger university. Dining halls are the first things that come to mind - they actually compete because they're serviced by different vendors and when one school starts losing students, they try harder. Anyway, that's my LAC rant.</p>
<p>Back to you. What do you want to study? Are you a math/science kid? A poli sci/econ kid? Pre-med? Tech? Pre-law? You get the idea. Your stats are stellar. You have a wealth of safeties...needs some narrowing. What is your dream school?</p>
<p>I actually think Northwestern would be a match. It's too competitive to be considered a safety necessarily, but definitely a match. If it were a safety for anyone though, it would be for you.</p>
<p>i have legacy at princeton and wharton, which are my reach schools. i'm not a math buff (my best SAT section was an 800 in reading) but still have some talent for it . i am looking to go into business or law and major in econ or philosophy.</p>
<p>Considering the legacy coupled with your stats, I'd have to say you're a match at both Princeton & Wharton, unless there are some felonies you're not sharing - again, not safety, but match. Do you love either of those? Are you looking for more options? Are you looking for safeties?</p>
<p>i like both a lot and will likely apply wharton ED. but i want a few backups(don't need to be safeties but i should have good chances) in case those two schools don't work out. no felonies, but i think if you looked at some princeton and wharton results threads you would hesitate before calling anyone a match.</p>
<p>Well, a match isn't a safety. You could reasonably be refused by a match - in my mind anyway, a match is 50/50.</p>
<p>Anyway, I like Claremont McKenna a lot for economics....definitely a match/safety. Pomona is great, a touch more selective, but for just econ, CMC wins - they are also a bit more business-y. You might also want to consider the PPE major (politics, philosophy & economics) - for this major I like Pomona a touch better. This is offered at UPenn as well. Pomona and CMC are the only other schools in this country that I am aware that offer it. Oxford was the first school to offer it. Definitely, take a look at it. I think it would suit you. There is also a Public Policy Analysis major offered at Pomona where you have a choice of ten concentrations including econ.</p>
<p>Rice might also fit the bill, along with Emory and Duke.</p>
<p>washington university in st louis...MAYBE cornell...carnegie mellon also has a good business school. NYU Stern?</p>
<p>^^^^ great suggestions</p>
<p>Take a look at law school admit rates and where kids are being admitted to from the schools you're considering too.</p>
<p>Here is Pomona's list (I have it because my son was admitted to '13) - he is now actually torn between the PPE and PPA majors - btw, he had your SAT scores, but a lower GPA:</p>
<p>Honestly, I believe that if you applied ED to Wharton and RD to Princeton, you would probably get into one of them. With your legacy/stats, they're somewhere in between a reach and a match.</p>
<p>Cornell/Hopkins would definitely be matches for you.</p>
<p>Have you taken the SATs yet? I was scoring between 2250 - 2400 on practice tests, but the day of the actual test I got exactly a 2250, which was my lowest limit. That was just 6 questions wrong and an 11/12 on the essay.</p>
<p>Bottom line: don't count your chickens before they hatch. Take the exam, then see where you stand.</p>
<p>didnt this guy just say 2350+ sat1 and 2350+ sat 2?</p>
<p>I believe the OP was speaking hypothetically, since he very recently posted on a thread where he stated that he had only taken practice exams thus far.</p>
<p>OK... good to get words quantified a bit as regards "chances" and "reach", "match" etc so we're on the same page.</p>
<p>I would call:
Reach: 10% - 30% chance
Match: 50% - 66% chance
Safety: 85%+ chance.</p>
<p>Therefore you'll see in between % called reach/match, safety/match, etc. and below 10% as superReach.</p>
<p>That's just me... but words can mean so many different things. With that out of the way...</p>
<p>Your stats put you into:
Super Reach: HYPS (not just you... almost all applicants are high stats and they only take 8%)
Reach on all the the rest of the Top 10
Reach/Match on 10-15
Match on 15-30
Safety on 30+</p>
<p>To get into Reach/Match on the Top 10 there needs to be something that really makes you stick out as extraordinary in your cohort of High Stats.</p>
<p>Here is an interesting discussion of applicant pools with almost all high stats kids, and how the adcom makes an attempt to find the kids that will be offered -- this is particularly relevant if you are targeting CHYMPS or Williams/Amherst/Swarthmore/Carleton.... But its also relevant for 7-20... there are lots of 1600 students who are not admitted to Berkeley, which currently holds a rank of 21 in the USNWR list.</p>
<p>MIT</a> Admissions | Blog Entry: "What's the big deal about 40^2?"</p>
<p>It's kind of absurd how many excellent schools there are, and yet how hard it still is to be accepted to one of them.</p>