@chembidad
You’ll be happy to know that’s exactly what College Transitions did.
https://www.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/infographics/top-wall-street-feeder-schools
@QuVntt. Assuming you have access to LinkedIn, it’s super easy to search WS employees by company and school; I just ran GS by top LAC’s;
Amherst - 258
Bates - 45
Bowdoin - 131
Carleton - 60
Colby - 97
Colgate - 226
Davidson - 54
Hamilton - 189
Haverford - 79
Middlebury - 272
Pomona - 75
Swarthmore - 84
Vassar - 131
Wellesley - 216
Williams - 243
And I threw in two top universities that don’t offer MBA’s as LinkedIn doesn’t allow filter of schools by undergraduate only;
Princeton - 1356
Brown - 798
I’m sure I missed some schools, but it gives you a snap shot and I think it’s the best way to get a true picture.
BTW, UCLA is a match if not a safety, you’re in the top 2% of those applying to UCLA (stat wise), the only way you would be rejected (and it won’t be an outright reject, it will be a waitlist to see if you are really interested) is if they think you aren’t serious about UCLA. You can look at the admit list on CC for UCLA and you will see the average admit is well below your stats. Your reach schools are reach schools because they routinely reject applicants with stats like yours. Finally reach/match/safety are different for different applicants.
Beware of people who single out colleges as reaches they are usually an alum and don’t see things objectively about their schools.
UCLA is a reach because the OP needs a large merit scholarship to afford it, and these scholarships are rare.
I’ll buy that for this OP but Gumbymom specifically mentioned the 20% acceptance rate as to why its not a high match. For this OP I would almost guarantee admittance, whether they can afford it is another matter.
@CU123, a 20% acceptance rate doesn’t “almost guarantee admittance” for anyone.
Again, high match, reach, safety is not dependent on the school, it is dependent on the applicant. Believe it or not there are a few applicants that even Harvard and Stanford are considered a match, very few.
@CU123, a 3, 4 or 5% acceptance rate can never be considered a match, and as Harvard and Stanford will deny far more perfect scores than they accept they are reaches for everyone.
@Chembiodad You’re talking about the normal high stat/perfect stat kid, I’m talking about something quite different, a rare jewel that all schools are looking to admit.
However, people outside the school’s admissions office tend not to have visibility in whether a given applicant is a “rare jewel that all schools are looking to admit”. Hence, it is risky to assume that a super-selective school is a non-reach without some insider information (e.g. of the type that comes with athletic recruiting or development-level donations).