<p>Harvard1009, you really aren’t helping with this kind of advice. Please do some reading, and look at some results threads. There are only a tiny number of students who are “in across the board” when they are applying to places like MIT, Duke, Harvard, Cornell, and Hopkins. Really good students with high stats get rejected at all those places. It’s not because they aren’t qualified–it’s because lots and lots of other people are also qualified.</p>