Chance me 😭. For Engineering/CS; South Asian-Female; 1450 Superscore SAT; scores: 94- 9th,94- 10th, 96-11th; a research paper in international journal and national scholarship for an exchange program abroad- major honors; mediocre ecs

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@Rint

Wellesley
Davidson
McKenna
Notre Dame
Middlebury
Haverford
Grinnel
Wesleyan
Georgetown
Vassar
Brandeis

My opinion…this is a very top heavy list with NO real sure things for admission and a lot of schools with very very low acceptance rates.

Please read this thread before you apply to mostly reach schools. It’s older but a must read for anyone with a very top heavy list. The student in the thread was a NMF, class val, excellent ECs, excellent LOR and he didn’t get accepted anywhere his senior year if high school. Read the whole thread!

No Acceptances: One Kid's Story - A year later...

Part I of III Sorry this is long but some posters have pm’d me about our story and I thought it would be of help to re-tell it. One year ago I posted a question here on CC – “We’re Picking up the Pieces …but what went wrong?” My son had applied to eight schools, been rejected at five and waitlisted at three. I expected to get a few responses and see the thread disappear deep into the archives of CC. Little did I imagine that one year later, not only would I still be posting about the progress, but an entire cyber family on College Confidential would still be going through it with me. For the benefit of those of you starting out on college applications, or – hopefully not-- for those of you who may find yourselves in our position, this is the story of one kid’s worst case scenario and how he made the best of it. I’m re-telling it here by way of my own original posts and those of other CC posters whose advice was so vital to the journey. Thanks to all of you! My original post o…