Hi BrownParent, thank you for the great advice. I’ve actually toured both campuses and my dad is close friends with a professor from Stanford. I’ve also been given the opportunity of taking a course at Stanford as well. Because I’ve come to experience those schools, learn their culture as well as see how school life is, I’ve been thinking that those two schools were my dream schools, ones that I would love to attend. I don’t feel like attending a great college is just about bragging rights it’s that those two are the top two schools I want to go to but there is the acceptance rate that I am concerned about. In order to be part of the schools I’ve been wanting to go I have to get good grades and GPA but sophomore year has really been a bummer so far. I would love to hear about how to increase my chances of getting in and being with the Stanford community or MIT community.