Chance at UPenn, Duke?

randomafk
Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:02:59 +0000

I see, thanks for the advice again.

I’m going to have to spend quite a bit of time on my essays, I guess. I’ll try to tweak them to show more ‘facets’ of my personality.

One of my teacher recs is coming from my history teacher, so I’m hoping that might make me more well-balanced. I was going to originally go with two math/science teachers who really like me, but my brother (who attends a top 3 school) advised me against it, and only allowed me to choose one.

Final question (Or at least, I’m trying to), what other schools should I try to look into that are a better match for my resume, but still a top school? I’ve also been looking at Cornell, Brown and Johns Hopkins, but I feel they might also be pretty far reach schools for me.