<p>I was wondering what would be the approzimate order of the following schools, from least likely to get into to most likely...</p>
<p>UChicago
UMich-Ann Arbor (in-state)
Northwestern
MIT
Princeton
Carnegie Mellon
Johns Hopkins
WashU in St. Louis</p>
<p>my guess would be:</p>
<p>Princeton
MIT
UChicago
Johns Hopkins
Northwestern
UMich
Carnegie Mellon
WashU</p>
<p>Considering which schools you're applying to, JHU might be a bit easier to get in for you.</p>
<p>One thing about JHU is that they have an abnormally high acceptance rate because the adcom there hates losing so many acceptees to schools like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc.</p>
<p>I don't know about the other schools you've listed, but JHU is a tiny bit easier to get into. I would say switch JHU with northwestern. I also think Carnegie Mellon is a bit easier than UMich. But that's all me. Anyone out there have other opinions?</p>
<p>umich acceptance rate=62%, no way its harder than washu or cmu(if instate).</p>
<p>According to the Princeton Review rankings (<a href="http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/rankings/rankingDetails.asp?categoryID=1&topicID=10)%5B/url%5D">http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/rankings/rankingDetails.asp?categoryID=1&topicID=10)</a>, MIT is harder than Princeton to get into. </p>
<p>However, I'm sure the effect is very small, and possibly not even worth dithering over.</p>
<p>Princeton
MIT
Northwestern
UChicago
Johns Hopkins
WUSTL
Carnegie Mellon
UMich</p>
<p>um, I am sorry, but I disagree a tad bit. Saying, it is like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 is a tad bit crazy. The difference between Northwestern, Chicago, and Hopkins is like too minute to rank differently. It would be like Northwestern/Chicago/Hopkins/Cornell.</p>
<p><em>according to College Board</em>
Princeton - 13%
MIT - 16%
Wash U - 22%
JHU - 30%
Northwestern - 30%
CMU - 42%
Chicago - 46%
Mich - 62%</p>
<p>However, other things I have read indicated that MIT's was lower, more like 10-11%. Also, b/c of the quality of apps @ Chicago, it is just as difficult to get into as Wash U or Northwestern.</p>
<p>MIT
Princeton
UChicago/Northwestern/Johns Hopkins
WashU
Carnegie Mellon
UMich- Ann Arbor</p>
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<p>What do you mean by selectivity? Do you mean the general academic profile of the students they enroll? Or do you mean the percentage of students that they admit? The latter isn't very meaningful unless you also consider the other. </p>
<p>There are a number of reasons why an excellent instituitions with high standards might have a fairly small, self-selecting applicant pool (which leads to a high admit rate), or why it might have a lower yield and thus needs to admit a high percentage (same result--a high admit rate).</p>
<p>U of Chicago is just as selective as Northwestern if not more, look at just some ppl, so many get waitlisted by chicago but into northwestern. Chicago is realllly hard to get into whether you like it or not. How many kids with below 1300 sat scores apply to the University of Chicago.</p>
<p>Two from my high school and they both got in...and not into any other top school.</p>
<p>Princeton RD is probably harder than MIT RD, but Princeton ED is quite a bit easier than MIT EA.</p>
<p>slipper on the west coast, barely anyone applies to either, we are lucky if ppl even know of it.</p>
<p>A few kids that I'm friends with got in, ones going, they weren't really academically excellent or whatever but they were really neat</p>
<p>Don't use the Princeton Review ratings.</p>
<p>Following US News rankings, which are about the most reliable of their rating or ranking data, and not focusing on any particular school or area of study, here are some rough selectivity groupings. . .</p>
<p>Princeton/MIT
Washington U/Northwestern
U of Michigan/JHU/U of Chicago/Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>Just look at the SAT profiles of each school. I find that the most accurate, for both selectivity and relative intelligence of the students. The two schools with the highest SAT score averages are arguably the most selective: Harvard and Caltech. Caltech, however, is technically less selective than MIT. Caltech applicants may be more self selective or there are simply less applicants because it's not in the northeast.</p>
<p>Wow, just looked at chicago's profile. For the caliber of their students, either the pool is extremely self selective, or there is a low yield, or both.
35% yield.
I guess the atmosphere really scares off a lot of people.
Chicago did really improve its incoming classes, judging by SAT scores. Went from 1330-1480 to 1360-1490. <a href="http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level3.asp?id=377%5B/url%5D">http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level3.asp?id=377</a>
14-1490 scorers went from 32% to 40% of matriculated.</p>
<p>In no particular order w/in groups...</p>
<p>GROUP 1:
Princeton
MIT</p>
<p>GROUP 2:
WashU
UChicago
Northwestern
Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>GROUP 3:
Michigan
Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>There is a disconnect between college board and Uchicago website regarding acceptance rate. According to Uchicago its 40%, and at Collegeboard it says 46%.
<a href="http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level3.asp?id=377%5B/url%5D">http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level3.asp?id=377</a></p>
<p>CB is wrong. Princeton Review also said 40%. <a href="http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/admissions.asp?listing=1023043<id=1&intbucketid=%5B/url%5D">http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/admissions.asp?listing=1023043<id=1&intbucketid=</a></p>
<p>BTW - you had better have a 3.9 UW average, some smoking SAT scores and one very solid EC activity if these are the only schools you are looking at, though if this is the case and you live in Michigan you could have a little bit lighter profile and it might be a safety for you.</p>