<p>@Blckmgc: I completely agree with you. The Ivies are dream colleges for anyone. And yeah I do know real little about the US. But I think you misunderstood me. I guess I used the wrong word. Instead of ‘safeties’ I should have used ‘my personal choice’ and I made it pretty clear why that is in my previous post. </p>
<p>And if you see my case in perspective, I wasn’t trying to imply that I can easily get in but that I am trying trying for the IIT’s and if I don’t make make it then my second choice will be the Ivies and so on and forth. That’s what I originally said. That after the inappropriate short question answer that I gave, even if I don’t make it to MIT it won’t really matter. Its not my first choice. And trust me I will make it to the IIT’s. Admission is not holistic and is based on a one time exam. And I know how to grind problems in math and the sciences better than you can imagine. I have a 2400 on the SAT’s and after the intensive coaching I have been taking for the last seven years to crack the IIT exam, it was a walk in the park. I was there for the IMO this year in Mar dal Plata.The only scenario in which I wont make it to the IIT’s is if I suffer from an accident on exam day. And in that case I have the Ivies as my backup plan. And I wasn’t accusing anyone of anything. Just got a little angry at ccuser95. </p>
<p>Tell me if you still think that I was being cocky.</p>