<p>I suggest you narrow that list down. Never apply to all 8 Ivies- they communicate. If they see that you applied to all 8, they get the impression you’re applying to them just because they are Ivies, not because you like the school. It’s better to pick 2-3 Ivies- you’re more likely to get in one by applying to 3 than all 8! Not to mention they all have a COMPLETELY different feel. I doubt a Brown student would be happy at Yale. </p>
<p>BC is not a safety. People have gotten into Harvard and Yale and rejected from BC. Be careful with Tufts too- Tufts Syndrome (rejecting “overqualified” applicants).</p>
<p>“BC is not a safety. People have gotten into Harvard and Yale and rejected from BC”</p>
<p>I’m sorry, but where did you hear that crap? I agree that BC is not a safety, it is a target. but for you to suggest that someone who gets into harvard or yale (8% and 9% respectively) would be rejected from BC (27%), is pretty ludicrous. </p>
<p>btw, don’t take this a bashing BC, take it as the simple statement of fact that harvard and yale are WAY harder to get into and therefore if you have the credentials for them, there is no way you dont have those equal or surpassing those required for admittance to BC.</p>
<p>(UNLESS of course you’re referring to legacy kids who get in because daddy bought a building. but even then, harvard and yale cannot except a complete bonehead, so i doubt that it even pertains then.)</p>
<p>In today’s admissions climate, any school with an acceptance rate of 27% is a reach for almost everybody. I think it is quite possible for someone to get into Harvard and get denied by BC and Tufts. (And it is even more likely that they will get denied by all of them, which is why students need to find true safeties.)</p>
<p>i agree with the “get denied all of them part” but COME ON! I like BC and plan on applying there. as a target. people with 2130 (i think that’s what OP has) and the gpa the OP said have a better chance of getting into BC then they do harvard. the argument just doesnt make sense. harvard gets more applicants, all of whom are probably qualified to go and they just have to pick the most “interesting” ones. BC probably gets a mix of people looking at it as a target or a reach and therefore harvard applicants (who could actually stand a chance) will have a far easier time getting into BC.</p>
<p>someone please explain these ideas better, because i’m just not getting it.</p>
<p>also, while 27% is low, students who stand a fighting chance at ivies can probably look at them as mid to high target or maybe low reaches. very few ivy applicants would consider bc or similar schools reaches simply because of the caliber of schools they are also apply to.</p>
<p>(I want to say again that i really do like BC, it’s just that saying things like “accepted at harvard, rejected at BC” just dont make any sense.)</p>
<p>NONE of your safeties are EVEN CLOSE to being safeties. Having been deferred from Brown, what makes you think that Tufts, Amherst (which is harder to get into than Brown), Bowdoin, NYU and BU will be academic and/or financial safeties?. For your safeties, apply to your state flagship. With your scores you’d pretty much be in. </p>
<p>Are you aware of how different Brown is from Columbia, and how different a place like NYU is from Dartmouth? Do you want to be in an urban area (a la Columbia, NYU, BU, Penn) or the middle of nowhere (Dartmouth, Cornell)? </p>
<p>Clearly you’re just shooting for top schools because of their prestige. If I were you I’d consider doing some serious research on the schools you’ve listed. Determine what, or at least what kind of environment you want to study in and narrow your list as such. I know that it’s difficult to know what you want as a high school kid, but some of the schools on your list are polar opposites. Ask yourself why each school is appealing to you. Don’t compile a list of top USNWR ranked schools and your anticipated admissions outcome based on outdated and severely inaccurate Collegeboard statistics. Each schools website, albeit biased, is a MUCH better source of information than Collegeboard, or this site, will ever be.</p>
<p>bowdoin is not in any way a safety school, and neither are bates or colby for that matter. I am the daughter of a colby prof and I know just how much those small amazing liberal arts colleges are struggling at the moment so if you are asking for a lot of financial aid then you better have kick ass grades and scores, oh and extra curriculars like there is no tomorrow.</p>