Chance Me: 3.85 UW, 1520 SAT, MIT hopeful [TX resident, top 5% rank, Computer Engineering/CS]

Yes, so one of the possible answers for the OP would be that they were looking for colleges with direct or free choice admissions to those programs.

And to be clear I wasn’t intending to ask a rhetorical question, I am thinking it would be helpful to know things like this.