<p>On another thread, I read a post stating that it didn’t really matter that a student’s list was “reachy,” so long as he had safeties. Since, as sybbie posted above, this list includes schools that are not just safeties in terms of admissions, but also in terms of finaid, does it matter that this student’s list is a bit top-heavy? </p>
<p>I’m not sure abut the Ivies, but I know of three girls with with similar or slightly weaker profiles who were recently admitted to Bates (white), Haverford (white) and Amherst (black, just got off the wait-list). Every admissions pool is different, but I would expect a boy to fare at least as well as the girls. And then there’s just luck; as the NYS lottery ads say, “You’ve gotta be in it to win it,” and “Hey, you never know.”</p>