A Dose of Realism, Please?

Lindagaf
Mon, 01 Jan 2018 17:38:08 +0000

There is nothing you can do to move HYPSM, Brown, etc…into the match category. They will always be high reaches for everyone. Your strategy of deciding which school to apply EA to is a red flag that you are looking for prestige. They will sense that. You need to show a college why you are a good fit. They will choose students who offer what they are looking for. Applying SCEA is not a good strategy if you are simply hoping to increase your odds at a highly selective college, especially since all of those colleges saw a big increase in the number of early applications. You will have to submit “why this college” essays for almost all of those schools and they all need to be different and unique. You need to understand each of those colleges and know what they are looking for.

U Chicago is very different from Georgetown. American and GWU are your only matches. I do not believe you have any true safeties. AU has a 25.7 acceptance rate and is not a safety. GWU has a 39% acceptance rate and is the closest thing to a safety for you. Those schools will want to see interest too, because they don’t want to be viewed as back ups. You need a true safety school, because matches don’t always come through. Hope that was a helpful dose of realism:-)