<p>Do you know your rank? Emory looks like a pretty long shot, unless you get much higher ACT scores, and your rank is higher than your GPA would imply. ED can give an admissions advantage for students whose stats are in-range, but doesn’t help students whose stats are out-of-range. Your SAT scores are below the 25th percentile for Emory, and especially troubling is how low your CR score is. Applying ED to Emory effectively amounts to throwing away your chance to boost your admissions odds with an ED application. </p>
<p>My advice would be to apply to Colgate ED1 instead. At some schools, ED1 have higher acceptance rates than ED2. And I recall that Colgate has much higher ED acceptance rates than RD acceptance rates. Your scores are also on the low side for Colgate, but the double legacy could be a boost. Lots of Colgate grads end up in the financial industry. </p>
<p>U. Miami seems more of a reach than a match. Your total SAT score is just a bit above the 25th percentile, and your CR score is below the 25th.</p>
<p>Your list does look pretty long. I suggest that you figure out which schools on that list offer Early Action and definitely try to apply to some EA schools. If you get any early acceptances, you can trim your list. And if you get early rejections, you will know to aim a bit lower in your remaining applications.</p>
<p>Ya i think im going to move Miami to the reach section or possibly remove it from my list. Also, i think i might apply ED1 to Lehigh. What are my chances there? Great advice. Much appreciated!</p>
<p>You do have more than enough schools in each category. If anything, you should cut the list down. But if you want to add one you should look at Fordham as a match school. </p>
<p>There is an advantage to applying ED to Lehigh so if that is your top choice, it is a good way to go. The school has an excellent business program.</p>
<p>I disagree with some of your assessments (ex. IMO Bentley is a match, Miami is a high match) but that is minor </p>
<p>Unsolicited advice: I’d apply EA to schools that have that option available (ex. Tulane, Fordham) and I’d apply to the SUNY schools early since I think they are rolling. If you get in early to one or two schools then you can take the safety schools off your list.</p>
<p>If there are any schools in the list that you would choose over any of your safeties under any circumstances, you can eliminate those schools.</p>
<p>If you get any early admission, that school becomes a safety if affordable. If so, then you can remove any schools that you would choose over that school under any circumstances. (Obviously, if you get an affordable ED admission, you’re done.)</p>
<p>I have known double legacies who have been rejected by their parents’ alma mater.
It caused a lot of resentment, bad feelings, and so on within both these families I know.
Parents stopped donating to their schools. (In both cases they were generous contributors)</p>
<p>If you cannot see yourself at Colgate and are only applying to please your parents, you might want to rethink applying there. Colgate does not have a finance major.</p>
<p>Have you read the Philadelphia Inquirer article on the admissions process at Lehigh? It’s a good article and might help you figure out how you stand there.</p>
<p>You should cut down your list a bit. Look into the schools even more and figure out where you aren’t really excited about. I also wouldn’t count on Binghamton, just because I have been following the boards and there is a lot of disappointment there. You have done a good job editing your original list, you are almost there.</p>
<p>Thank you for all the help. Im defintely going to start cutting down my list and i will also look at fordham. The only thing that i still dont know right now is where to apply ED. Im between Emory, Colgate, Lehigh, American or SCEA to Tulane. What are my chances at those schools if i apply early?</p>
<p>But a key factor you need to consider if applying ED is if you are confident that you would want to attend the ED school. </p>
<p>I think your odds at American would be pretty good ED. Lehigh and Colgate may be worth a try ED. Emory is too reachy, I think. I’m not sure about Tulane. </p>
<p>Once you know your ACT score, or if you retake the SAT, you can re-evaluate.</p>
<p>1) Wait a week or two until the current crop that had their final decisions in the past few days clears out. Some probably find it hard to focus on your dilemmas at least 6 months away.</p>
<p>2) Provide more data as was suggested and you will get more discriminating feedback.</p>
<p>3) My guess is that some are holding back so as not to be harsh. The limited data you gave does not indicate good chances at most of your reaches and matches, even using ED and/or EA. But maybe you have some other compelling qualities, activities, or interests that might swing things your way a little more.</p>
<p>This isn’t the “What are my chances?” forum. We aren’t Lehigh admissions officers, and we don’t know what your chances are. </p>
<p>For schools where someone’s scores are below the 25th percentile, it is easy to say that chances are not good. But for someone in the 25-50th percentile for test scores, it is very difficult to say, and depends on a lot of things: GPA, class rank, rigor of classes, ECs, essays, recommendations, even gender and URM status and geography, etc.</p>
<p>Purely from the perspective of using ED to optimize the ED admissions boost, I think the best bet is at schools with relatively low admissions rates (say under 35% or so) where the student’s grades/stats are at about the 50th percentile. At selective schools, plenty of applicants with 50th-ish percentile stats get rejected, but many also get accepted. Look at the scattergrams available on Naviance and other internet sources to see what I mean - you will see lots of acceptances and denials/waitlists right in the same area of the graph. Why are some students accepted and some rejected, with virtually identical stats? Other characteristics come into play. And that is where applying ED gives you a real boost. </p>
<p>But putting aside what I said in the paragraph above, there is no point in applying ED unless it is a school that you really like and want to go to more than any other school that you have reasonable odds of getting accepted to.</p>