**Official Notre Dame Class of 2017 Decisions Thread!**

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<p>Rejected</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 1940
[</em>]SAT II: Biology-710, Chemistry-740
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA: UW-3.96 W-4.63 (IB Diploma Candidate)
[<em>]Rank: Top 5%
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): IB Spanish SL- 6</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Lots of work and were told they was very polished
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Very well written from what I heard. Supplemental letter talked about continued leadership over several years (from past MS teacher)
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Average
[</em>]Supplementary Material:
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Submitted one-page summary/abstract of my published research</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: West coast
[</em>]High School Type: Medium-public
[<em>]Ethnicity: White
[</em>]Gender: Male</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Three sport athlete, very involved with film and photography (employed working in both fields), chess coach, assistant track coach, various church involvement (began worship band, altar boy, youth group leader, etc.), lots of volunteer work including organizing regional canned food drives with school
[</em>]Awards: Regional science fair top-5 (State)
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] SAT did me in. Have had 8 or so family members attend ND (no legacy, unfortunately) and well-known uncle within ND community and so this is a strong disappointment. Higher test scores would have helped for certain. Not overly surprised by the decision–definitely was a reach school. I have a strong feeling that the decision would have been different if I had a stronger SAT or taken the ACT with a high score.</p>

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<p>I think the point is that an applicant is (ethically) obligated to withdraw RD apps once an acceptance via ED comes in. Unless Vandy had the latest ED notification date known to man, the applicant either forgot or, well, chose not to withdraw those apps. Never should have still been in the game to receive RD results.</p>

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<p>Everyone is 100% right regarding ED ethics. I posted these results because I am proud of my child (first applying to college and new to the process) and we’ve valued the information shared by others on this site. My post does not explain the misunderstandings and assumptions we made that led to an RD after an ED. 100% of these applications were submitted by December 1st (ED/non-binding EA/RD). We notified the HS the morning after ED acceptance; we were told the counselor (who was new and has already left!) would withdraw the remaining applications. We confirmed a mid-year report was sent only to the ED school. Receiving RD results on Friday was a COMPLETE surprise. We are following up with the HS and sending our own withdrawal notices. Understand the expressed concerns – wishing everyone the best.</p>

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<p>Meston. Dont blame the high school. It was your responsibility to follow up. You mostly likely took spots away from other students. </p>

<p>Knowing this, you have some nerve for posting the acceptances. You have some ego.</p>

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<p>Status: Waitlisted</p>

<p>Stats:
GPA: 4.3 W 4.0 UW
SAT: 720 CR 670 M 640 W
SAT 2: 660 Math 2 (bleh) 680 US History
ACT: 30
Past AP Courses: United States History (4)
European History (4)</p>

<p>Current AP Courses: Calculus AB
Economics (Macro and Micro)
English Literature
Environmental Science
Honors Courses: 12</p>

<p>Extra-Curriculars:
-3 years Tuba
-1 year Brass Quintet
-3 years weekly tutoring at a gradeschool
-Monthly food drive
-NHS
-Spanish Honor Society
-Future Business Leaders of America
-7 years altar server
-Voter Registration Drive</p>

<p>Awards:
-Commended Student
-Academic Letter, Principal’s List (Something my school does. It’s like a varsity letter, but for getting Principal’s list all year [All A’s all year])
-English 3 Honors Excellence Award (Highest grade of anyone taking any English 3 Honors class)
-Pre-Calculus Honors Effort Award (Like the English award, but for ‘effort’, usually either the 2nd highest grade or the teacher’s favorite)
-Computer Science Effort Award
-St. Michael’s College Book Award for Academic Achievement with a Social Conscience (I don’t know what this is or how I earned it)
-$2000 a year scholarship for Academic Excellence</p>

<p>Additional:
-Took 3 summer classes at Stanford (actually living on Campus)
-Legacy (Father and Uncle, Mother went to St. Mary’s across the street. This was back before the school was co-ed.)
-White Male from Washington D.C.</p>

<p>Honestly, I’m disappointed but not too surprised. My scores don’t really match up with a lot of people who have gotten in. If anyone has any suggestions on how to get off the waitlist, that would be much appreciated, but with schools like Notre Dame, waitlisted is a kinder way of saying no. Congratulations to everyone who got in, I hope you have a fantastic time at Notre Dame :]</p>

26

<p>Rejected RD</p>

<p>Deferred EA </p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<p>ACT: 32
GPA: 4.0 uw / 4.93 w<br>
[ *]Rank: 4/553
[ *]Other Tests AP: 5-5s, 2-4s, + 6 and 2 Honors this year</p>

<p>[ *]Essays: very good
[ *]Teacher Recs: Excellent
[ *]Counselor Rec: Excellent
[ *]Supplementary Material: Letter from pastor
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none</p>

<p>[ *]Location: IL
[ *]High School Type: public
[ *]Ethnicity: W
[ *]Gender: F</p>

<p>[ *]Extracurriculars: 4 year Captain-varsity soccer, Founder and captain-mock trial, NHS board member, Spanish NHS, HS/district IMEA choir, Youth group/bible study leader, …
[ *]Awards:AP scholar w/ distinction, Rotary Club-Academic, All Conference. Athlete/Academic, HS Team MVP
[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:Confirmed very high level of interest and passion about ND after EA deferral including letter from pastor. Disappointed but moving on… Good Luck to all acceptees!</p>

27

<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2210 (800 CR, 750 M, 660 W)
[</em>]SAT II:
[<em>]ACT: 35
[</em>]GPA: 4.0
[<em>]Rank: N/A
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5,5,4 on AP US, Euro, and English Language</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Talked about intelligence versus wisdom, my faith, and Notre Dame. Faith one might have set me apart
[</em>]Teacher Recs: very good on both, one superior
[<em>]Counselor Rec: superior (perks of a small school)
[</em>]Supplementary Material: N/A
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Catholic, not from Midwest?</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: Empire State (NY)
[</em>]High School Type: small public
[<em>]Ethnicity: white
[</em>]Gender: male</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Varsity Soccer (captain, All League Honorable Mention), Varsity (Indoor and Outdoor) Track and Field (captain, All-League, nationally ranked), President of NHS, captain of Academic Team, officer in Peer Leadership Club, cofounded current event newspaper, intern at NYU Neurology, position in county government, first chair in Band and Jazz Band, Youth Wind Ensemble, church youth group, busboy at local restaurant, soccer referee, referee coordinator, volunteer work with youth group and school bands, unpaid tutoring, tutor coordinator
[</em>]Awards: nothing special
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] I got a likely a couple weeks back and will be at the Reilly Weekend. I’m just happy to have such an incredible option. If financial aid comes through, I may be taking my talents to South Bend next year. For future applicants, if you’re of faith, let it shine through in your application. If I could go back and do anything differently in my applications, I would have been a little more down to earth and shown who I am as opposed to who I will be. The best person you can be on your application is yourself; unless you’re an awful person, I suppose.</p>

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<p>Students who get accepted or wait listed do they get any credit applied for AP courses they took in HS towards their Degree program…??</p>

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<p>Congrats to all those who were accepted!! I hope to join you all next year as the incoming class of 2018 :)</p>

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<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ list]
[<em>]SAT:N/A
[</em>]SAT II:N/A
[<em>]ACT:34
[</em>]GPA:3.98
[<em>]Rank:N/A
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5 AP bio, 4 AP Chem</p>

<p>[/list]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I felt like they where pretty good
[</em>]Teacher Recs: 1 excellent, don’t know about the other but felt it was good
[<em>]Counselor Rec: excellent
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Had a superb letter of recomendadtion from the person I did summer research with
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Did cancer research before senior year, submitted to Seimens Competition and achieved National Semi-Finalist</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location:South Alabama
[</em>]High School Type: Public Math and Science Boarding School. Very high level in Math, im in Calc three now. Also high level sciences, I’m taking Organic and Physics C
[<em>]Ethnicity: White
[</em>]Gender: Male</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Soccer, Cancer Research, Club president of Habitat for Humanity
[</em>]Awards: National Semi-finalist for Siemens competition, NHS, NAtional Spanish Honor Society, Schools Achievment in Math and Biology
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Very glad I got in, really was not sure if I would get in. Was rejected ED from UPenn, Wait listed from Wash U, and accepted to Auburn, Georgia Tech, and UNC-CH</p>

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<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2270 (CR: 800, Math: 770, Writing: 700)
[</em>]SAT II: Korean: 800, Math 2: 780, Bio-M: 750
[<em>]ACT: 32 (did not send)
[</em>]GPA: 4.3 Weighted
[<em>]Rank: Top 20%
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP: Euro-4, Comp Sci-4, US History-5, Calc AB-5, Biology-5, English Language-5</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Pretty good
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Solid
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Generic most likely
[</em>]Supplementary Material:None
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: Southern California
[</em>]High School Type: Public Magnet
[<em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>]Gender: Male</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Leadership positions in NJROTC, Summer internship, Library volunteering
[</em>]Awards: National Leadership Award, National AP Scholar, various NJROTC awards
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] This was my dream school! Wow… I can’t believe it. Good luck to all!</p>

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<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2120 (620CR, 700M, 800W)
[</em>]SAT II: 590Lit, 650Bio-M, 720Math1 (TWICE), 720Bio-E, 710Math2, 760Bio-M (retake), 680Lit (retake), 800Math2 (retake)
[<em>]ACT: 34 (34E, 34M, 33R, 36S, 09E)
[</em>]GPA: 4.0 (Unweighted); 105.321 (Weighted)
[<em>]Rank: 1/515
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Human Geography (4), AP World History (4), APUSH (5), AP Biology (5), AP English Lang (5), six more this year.
[li]Senior Year Courses: Band, AP Music Theory, AP Environmental Science, AP English Lit/Comp, AP Calculus AB, AP USGoPo, AP Microecon, Honors Physics.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I felt pretty good about them. I honestly felt better about my UND-specific essays.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: I never saw them, but they were from two AP teachers who had me for two years; I made 5’s on both of their exam, coincidentally only the second student in both of their teaching histories to do so.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Again, I didn’t see it, but I’m assuming it was pretty great!
[</em>]Supplementary Material: None sent in.
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Hmm, geographic diversity? That isn’t really a hook though.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: New Mexico
[</em>]High School Type: Large Public (~2200)
[<em>]Ethnicity: White
[</em>]Gender: Male</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Science Olympiad (several state medals; 1st in one event for two years), Marching Band (Drum Major, two years), Symphonic Band (1st chair, three years; 1st chair in all-state, two years), Pep Band, Student Council (Secretary, PR Rep., District President), NHS (Executive Board Member), summer volunteer job for a month at a church camp in Texas.
[</em>]Awards: AP Scholar with Distinction; Science Olympiad State Scholarship; local scholarship.
[<em>]Other Schools: Deferred SCEA from Yale. Applied RD to all Ivies (sans Yale), Stanford, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, and UCBerkeley.
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Notre Dame isn’t at the top of my list, but I am so happy to be accepted! This is my first acceptance so it’s very exciting.</p>

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<p>Waitlisted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2120
[</em>]SAT II: 720 bio m, 690 ush, 680 math1
[<em>]GPA: 3.83 w
[</em>]Other Tests (AP): Bio (5), USH (4), Writing (4), Stats (3)</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: amazing
[</em>]Teacher Recs: wonderful
[<em>]Counselor Rec: literally couldn’t be better
[</em>]Supplementary Material: wrote on wisdom vs. intelligence, ordinary being a failure, and why nd? I thought all of them were really strong and are probably the reason I was wailitsed and not rejected
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: Ma
[</em>]High School Type: public
[<em>]Ethnicity: white
[</em>]Gender: female</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: varsity tennis 9-12 captain, mock trial 9-12 captain, xc 9-12, jsa 9-11, student govt (officer) 9-12, mu alpha theta 9-12, Latin nhs 10-11, NHS 11-12, peer ed 11-12, internship for my local congressman, worked at dunkin’ donuts for 8 months a bunch of volunteering
[</em>]Awards: ap scholar with honor, gold medalist for national latin exam, beacon award
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] accepted: BU and villanova, waitlisted: uva, wustl, and here waiting on BC, Georgetown, and Michigan</p>

34

<p>REJECTED</p>

<p>SAT/ACT: 1350/30
GPA W: 4.23
Class Rank: Top 10%
AP classes: 6</p>

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<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 800 CR, 750 M, 730 W
[</em>]SAT II: 800 US History, 700 Chemistry, 660 Math IIC
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: 3.8887
[<em>]Rank: 11/395
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Statistics (5), Calculus BC (5), US History (5), Chemistry (5), Biology (in progress), European History (in progress)</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Very good if I say so myself. I say this because I have gotten into a lot of top schools with not so many ECs.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Probably good.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Don’t know.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: N/A
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: New Jersey
[</em>]High School Type: Public 2000 students
[<em>]Ethnicity: Caucasian
[</em>]Gender: Male</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: President of a cultural club, volunteering in local forest, teaching Italian to elementary students, mission trips, working on uncle’s ranch.
[</em>]Awards: National Merit Finalist, AP Scholar with Honor
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Notre Dame was my wildcard school. I’ve never visited but I had a hunch I might like it so I did an app. I will have to visit to see.</p>

<p>Other school decisions:
-Washington University in St. Louis (accepted)
-Rice University (accepted)
-UNC (oos- accepted)
-Tulane (accepted)
-Wisconsin (oos- accepted)</p>

<p>-UVA (waitlisted)
-Bowdoin College (waitlisted)</p>

<p>Duke (deferred, yet to hear)
UPenn (yet to hear)
Michigan (yet to hear)</p>

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<p>Son-Accepted</p>

<p>GPA 101W-93UW
SAT 2200 (720CR710M770W)
SAT2 710Physics, 700USH
AP Scholar with D
National Achievement
Great reccomendations
Rank 6/399 (2%)
NYState
Male / AA and Hisp(URM)
Varsity Sports x3
Some Volunteer
Three great letters of
Accepted to Cornell, St Johns(FULL), Binghamton, Hofstra, Baruch(FULL)
Waiting on other IVYs NYU—Harvard Deferred.</p>

37

<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT:2110 (CR 740 M 620 W 750)
[</em>]SAT II: US History 670 and Literature 740
[<em>]ACT: 30
[</em>]GPA: 100.52
[<em>]Rank: 23/463
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): APUSH 4, Gov 3, IB Spanish SL 6, IB Math Studies 7</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I thought they were very good. Kind of quirky. I really let my personality be known when I wrote them.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Written by two of my favorite teachers whose classes I’ve done well in so, I think they were great.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Probably superficial, she doesn’t know us personally.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Nothing.
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Legacy. My dad went for Law School.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: Texas
[</em>]High School Type: Public
[<em>]Ethnicity: Hispanic
[</em>]Gender: Female</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Oh boy. A lot. Tons of volunteer hours, NHS, 4 years of dance team, Dance team captain. A few other things.
[</em>]Awards: National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholar
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] I really think being in IB helped a lot.</p>[/li]
<p>Accepted:
-University of Texas at Austin in their Liberal Arts Honors program.
-Amherst College
-Saint Mary’s College
-St. Edward’s</p>

<p>Waitlisted
-Rice University</p>

<p>Waiting
-Harvard
-Columbia
-Princeton
-Vanderbilt
-Williams College</p>

38

<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT:1890
[</em>]SAT II: Didn’t Take
[<em>]ACT:30
[</em>]GPA:4.0
[<em>]Rank:13 out of 746
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Psychology(4) , AP English Language(4), AP United States(3)</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays:Common App was better than supplments, but my personal experience at ND’s summer program proved to be a great topic for my “Why ND?” essay.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Great
[<em>]Counselor Rec:Work personally wityh her/ great relationship, so I am assuming pretty good!
[</em>]Supplementary Material:
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location:Arizona
[</em>]High School Type:Public
[<em>]Ethnicity: Hispanic
[</em>]Gender:Female</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Mayor’s Youth Council, National Hispanic Institute, NHS, Girls State, Hispanic Mentorship, Piano, Museum Volunteer, Varsity Golf Team
[</em>]Awards: National Hispanic Scholar
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] I am so elated!!! I attended the Leadership Seminars this past summer, and after one week I knew that Notre Dame has a soul like no other. Go Irish!</p>

39

<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT:
SAT II: Math II 780, Math I 760, Chem 740
ACT: 33
GPA: 3.9 (UW)
Rank: N/A
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Chem 4, Taking BC Calc, Physics, Stat </p>

<p>Subjective
Essays: Very good. Wrote about my reason for wanting to attend ND to study architecture
Teacher Recs: Very good I assume
Counselor Rec: Again very good I assume
Supplementary Material:
Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): absolutely none!</p>

<p>Personal
Location: FL
High School Type: Private
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female</p>

<p>Other
Extracurriculars: Many academic and charitable activities. Also 4 year varsity athlete.(not being recruited)
Awards: Quite a few academic awards from my school.
Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?
Good luck to everyone. It seems like admissions can be so random with super qualified applicants not getting into schools that they should. Everything always works out for a reason. I wish everyone the best!</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 800 M, 800 CR, 800 W
[</em>] ACT: Didn’t send
[<em>] SAT II: 770 Math II, 730 Literature
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/5
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load:
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NMF, U.S. Senate Youth Program
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Lots of them, mostly music-related
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Restaurant & opera jobs
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 400+ hours
[<em>] Essays: Really good, very candid
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Awesome
[<em>] Counselor Rec: A tear-jerking work of genius
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[<em>] Intended Major: Program of Liberal Studies
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): Alaska
[<em>] School Type: Small private Catholic
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: $200,000+
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Scores, grades, extracurriculars, recs,
[li] Weaknesses: No AP, IB, or Honors classes - school doesn’t offer them[/li][/ul]General Comments:</p>

<p>Other schools:
Accepted: USC, Washington & Lee, Dartmouth (likely), UChicago, Northwestern, Rice
Not accepted: Yale (deferred EA), Bowdoin (waitlisted)
Still waiting: Stanford, Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Vanderbilt</p>