Applying TO to top ranked engineering programs

I agree 100%. The assumption behind no test score is that it’s low. 700 is not low.

No matter her stats, the odds are very much against her at those schools anyway. It’s in no way a reflection on her and her accomplishments. It’s a simple math game of too many high stats kids applying to too few programs.

The more important thing is that it just doesn’t matter that much. No school prints golden tickets (maybe quantitative financial analysis from MIT), but certainly none for engineering. It’s pretty egalitarian out of the gate and very meritocratic from then on. There’s no correlation to any school monopolizing the best jobs, at least for technical engineering.

Best of luck to her.

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