<p>I just got deferred ED from Brown… depressing i know… So now i’m going to apply to SEVERAL other schools. Yay. I was just wondering where you guys are applying RD, and particularly how many schools. Here are my schools in order of my likelyhood of getting in:</p>
<p>REACH:
Harvard
Yale
Stanford
Caltech
Princeton
MIT
Columbia
(Brown)
Cornell
Dartmouth</p>
<p>MATCH:
Tufts
Swarthmore
UPenn
Wesleyan</p>
<p>SAFTIES:
Amherst
Bowdoin
Boston University
NYU</p>
<p>Also, don’t take offense if i list some great schools as safties and matches… I am probably not going to get into them anyway.
By the way if you were wondering, my SATS: 800M, 730CR, 640W</p>
<p>Are you just applying to the Ivies just because they’re Ivies? It would be a good idea to pick a school based on how well you feel you would fit in, the Ivies are all quite different. Plus, you might want some target schools, since you only have 2 legit targets.</p>
<p>i agree with the previous posts
you’re seriously applying to a bajillion Ivy’s?
there is no way to know that you’re a sure thing for any of them
but i shall indulge you deferree:</p>
<p>deferee your list looks weird. i am 99% sure Amherst is harder to get into than Cornell, and Penn is at least equally difficult, and yet one is a reach, one is a match, one is a safety. what criteria are you using for putting schools under categories? And what do you mean you’re probably not getting into them anyway? The whole point of applying to safeties and matches is so that you DO get into them. That’s what makes them safeties.</p>
<p>Lol at that list. Amherst as a safety? Penn is harder to get into than Cornell, and applying to 18 different schools is far too many. You should definitely narrow down your interests more rather than sending a blanket of apps to every school in the top 20.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t consider Bowdoin or Amherst safeties, considering they are among the top liberal arts colleges.
Colgate, BC, and Bard are more practical safeties.</p>
<p>Colgate and BC are not safeties. Colgate’s acceptance rate was 24% and BC was 28%. They are reaches for almost everybody.</p>
<p>BU is also a tough school to get into. Bard is a viable safety for some students.</p>
<p>HeartLikeASocket: You can get an early acceptance to Bard, I think, and you should. Other than that, all the other schools on your list are reaches. That’s a very risky list if you want to go to college next year.</p>
<p>fireandrain, thanks but that’s actually not the whole or final list. Although I wouldn’t call all of the schools on there reaches, I do agree that I desperately need safeties. I’m also in a worse situation than most people since I’m an international student asking for lots of financial aid. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>But I’m curious as to why you think Bard will accept me and not Brandeis and Bates… I kind of grouped all three as matches, but I don’t really know how to compare chances using anything other than SAT score ranges and acceptance rates. </p>
<p>Does anybody have any safety recommendations?</p>
<p>Wow, I just checked Bard’s statistics, and things have changed there – acceptance rate of 25%. So I take back what I said about Bard being a safety – with that rate, it is more like a reach. I’m really surprised. Bard has something called the Immediate Decision Plan, but since the dates are passed, no point in dwelling on that now. Same with Brandeis – with an acceptance rate under 30%, that (in my definition) makes it a reach for almost everyone.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, Heart, since you are an international student needing aid, I don’t believe there are any safeties or even matches for you among the top 50+ schools. They will all be reaches. The only suggestion I have is to look at Tier 2 and 3 schools that provide large merit awards based on SAT scores and GPA. And universities in your home country. The situation for international students needing aid is bleak in the US these days.</p>
<p>OP, did you just look at u.s. new report and choose the top 20? bc thats what it looks like. sorry, but you need a reality check. i wish you the best of luck
and btw remember you have to pay for all of those, so bsically you could pay for a semester at school if you spend that much money in app fees and sat/act scores and css profiles
i mean i dont want to discourage you, apply to those top school bc you never know (hey luck was the biggest reason i got in ED) but still all of those schools are so different and yu ave to choose the ones that are right for you based on their programs, not just rank and rep.</p>
<p>You might want to google the “decades hottest schools” for some reality check. Tufts may be a reach, as well (I know of stunningly high data kids (SAT, SUBJECT IIs, and GPAs) who were turned away for early decision, a week ago. Bard, too, has become “hot” and isn’t a safety by a long shot. </p>
<p>As well, I would put more effort into educating yourself about the culture at all of the schools that you are considering–some of them are radically different from each other and, just because a school is prestigious, does not mean that it would be a fit for you.</p>
<p>I know innumerable students who have transferred, in the past, from Princeton, Cornell, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst, Brown, Swarthmore, lamenting everything from pretentiousness to size to geography to political sensibility of the school to diminished interest in a social life to lack of intellectual sensibility, etc.</p>
<p>Good luck–the possibilities are endless and confusing.</p>
<p>Do you guys know the chances of an International student who has lived in the US half her life and who is NOT applying for financial aid at schools such as Brown, Duke, Northwestern and Tufts?
Like would i have it harder just because Im international or easier because Im not applying for aid?
(SAT: 2350)</p>
<p>Deferee do you like anything about any of those schools or are you just hunting for prestige? Your list speaks volumes about your intelligence as well.</p>