Chance me fam

MWolf
Sun, 26 Jan 2020 21:28:21 +0000

Decide what size and type you would like (large university, medium/small university, liberal arts college, etc). What path you want to follow (neuroscience undergraduate, biology undergraduate, psychology undergraduate, MD route, etc). What areas in the country do you prefer?

With your stats, and you also say that you have no serious budget limitations, you have reaches, matches, and likely safeties in all of these categories. So first you need to define what you would like in a college. Then you need to make sure that you have a couple of colleges which meet those qualifications to which you have a very high chance of being accepted. Then you can choose some to which your chances of being accepted or rejected are about even. If you want, you can then add a few colleges from which you are much more likely to be rejected than accepted.

While people seem to be obsessed about making sure that they have reaches, and then obsess about the reaches, and mostly ignore any others, that is the route to disappointment and bitterness. The way to make sure that you end up happy with the college that you will attend is to make sure that you are as happy with your safeties as you would be with any other college to which you will be accepted.