<p>Admission is not determined by where a college ranks. It is determined by your application relative to the applicant pool among other things. </p>
<p>In all honesty, all the top 20 schools really have practically identical applicant pools - it just depends on what they are looking for. Thinking in statistical terms - all of your probabilities are independent of each other… as in admission to one school has no bearing on admission to another.</p>