<p>pierre0913</p>
<p>I don’t mean to criticize you or your school, but to be honest, the list you posted was good, but not extraordinary. It is similar to many excellent public schools with a fairly wealthy student body. The top schools where your school exceeded expectations were Harvard, MIT and Brown, which are reasonably close in location to your school and where the counselors are probably extremely familiar with the school and its students. But, in places where Belmont had no such “hook”, your school did very well, but nothing out of the ordinary for fine suburban schools–i.e., 1 at Penn, 3 at Cornell and none at Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Dartmouth, Columbia, and Chicago.</p>