Chance/advice for a scared junior

AustenNut
Tue, 05 Apr 2022 13:42:15 +0000

I agree, to a point. I thought about adding small liberal arts schools like Williams, Bowdoin, Hamilton, etc., but I decided not to because OP already has a bunch of highly selective/rejective colleges. But I think that OP should definitely look at some of these and see if these are preferable options to those already on his list. So I’d understand if OP wanted to switch out some of his “reach” schools for these, but I wouldn’t add more schools into that category.

Personally (and it truly is personal and others may not feel that way), I think it is very hard to go through an admissions cycle where more than half of the schools one applies to are a denial. Highly rejective schools are going to be denying most highly qualified candidates. Thus, I would not have that category make up the majority of the schools I applied to. But, I understand that others may feel differently.