<p>For me, it was...
Reach: Brown, Columbia, Duke, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, UChicago, UPenn, Williams
Match: NYU
Safety: UVM</p>
<p>I'm not sure if some of my reach schools would be considered high match, though, anyways.</p>
<p>I got accepted into..
Reach: UChicago, UPenn, Williams
Match: NYU
Safety: UVM
Waitlisted at Duke, Columbia, and Princeton, and rejected at the rest.</p>
<p>I decided it would be best to apply to so many reach schools being almost positive I'd get into at least one, while still having my match and safety schools there for me. I knew it was a crapshoot with the reach schools so I knew by applying to more I'd increase my chances of getting into at least one.</p>
<p>Safety: Accepted to 2 of 2
Low Match: Accepted to 4 of 4
Low Reach: Accepted to 0 of 2 (1 of which was a waitlist)
High Reach: Accepted to 0 of 1</p>
<p>Applied to:
Reach: Bates College, Boston College, Barnard College, Holy Cross, Villanova (kind of a high match I guess)
Match: Bryn Mawr, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, American University, Fordham
Safety: Wilkes, U of Scranton, Saint Joseph’s</p>
<p>Accepted to:
Reach: Villanova
Match: everywhere
Safety: everywhere</p>
<p>Waitlisted at Barnard, Bates, and Holy Cross. Rejected from BC.</p>
<p>Reach: Duke University, Cornell University, Georgetown University, University of Virginia, Vanderbilt University, Tufts University, Wake Forest University, Boston College
High match: New York University, Lehigh University
Match: The George Washington University
Low match: University of Maryland, University of Miami, Penn State
Safety: Rutgers University</p>
<p>Accepted (7) - Wake Forest University, New York University, The George Washington University, University of Miami, University of Maryland - College Park, Penn State - University Park, Rutgers University (Business & Arts and Sciences) </p>
<p>Safety: accepted @ Chapel Hill w/ scholarship + honors… not much of a safety but they’re suckers for instate kids, you know that)
Match: WUSTL (in), Georgetown SFS (higher match…? waitlist)
Reach: Harvard (waitlist), Stanford (in), Princeton (rejected), Penn (in), UChicago (in)</p>
<p>I probably should’ve applied to more match and safety school but I’m not really complaining. I’m pretty happy with the way things turned out. I wish I’d gotten into Georgetown but Stanford and Penn ain’t too shabby imho</p>
<p>Reach: Stanford, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Pomona, CMC
High Match: Northwestern
Match: University of Rochester
Safety: OSU Honors</p>
<p>For acceptances:</p>
<p>Reach: Yale, Dartmouth
High Match: Northwestern
Match: University of Rochester
Safety: OSU (not honors, rejected from that due to a lack of SAT scores; that was, of course, motivated by my Dartmouth likely letter, so don’t read too much into it)</p>
<p>This is how people chanced me back in July when I posted my chance thread (I know … it’s so hypocritical of me to criticize chance threads these days :D) and how they ended up: </p>
<p>Accepted: Univ of Michigan, Michigan State (with $12,000 scholarship over 4 years or something like that) </p>
<p>Waitlisted: Univ of Chicago </p>
<p>Rejected: MIT, Brown, Stanford </p>
<p>Time spent on essays: ~4 months (waste of time I tell you) + checked by teachers and fellow CCers</p>
<p>Basic stats
GPA: UW 3.85 with 9 total APs
ACT: 34
SAT: 2260
ECs: Relatively weak with a few leaderships here and there (search for my posts for extra details) - Orchestra Section Leader, NHS Webmaster, Latin Club Secretary
Income bracket:: Upper, 250k+
Extra stats: AMC 12 105, AIME qualifier, AIME 3, USNCO Regional Honorable Mention</p>
