Tentative college list

College Search & Selection
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<p>OK, so you’re an impatient (4 bumps in 27 minutes in the middle of the night! Give it a rest!), “A” student, who feels they have an average chance at the top schools in the US. Great. At Harvard, this year that meant a 7% (1 in 14) chance.</p>

<p>I haven’t looked at the admit stats of all the schools on your list, but I believe after the first 6, all the remaining schools have less than a 20% admit rate. Most people here would not characterize a 1 in 5 chance as “decent”.</p>

<p>Vermont & Clemson are your 2 safeties, after that it gets very competitive, very quickly. Statistically, apply to all of your first six with the expectation of getting into 3 or 4, then apply to your asterisked 6 with the expectation of getting into 1.</p>

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<p>rocket6louise, no one said that a decent student absolutely can’t get in. That Adcom woud look at the application and throws it in the garbage. Just that a decent student have LESS chance of getting in, not the same chance as stated in the original post. For example, 16.4% of Princeton’s admitted students have a 4.0 GPA, while only 4.1% have below 3.5. The biggest group admitted is the 4.0 group. 28.1% admitted have SAT I score above 2300, while 6.2% have between 1900 and 2090. Yes, there is still that 6.2%. Doesn’t in any way mean that an average student have the same chance as a top student.</p>