CHANCE me (Ivies, MIT, Caltech, Stanford, etc.)

MWolf
Mon, 14 Sep 2020 19:23:09 +0000

In which state do you live? It is important for calculating tuition and admission chances to public universities (some, like Michigan or GTech, which have higher acceptance rates for in-state students).

if you really want to keep Harvard, do so. You should also understand that engineering at these schools are somewhat different, character-wise - for example, MIT leans more to “traditional” approaches to engineering, while CMU has a broader approach.

You have done your best over the past three years to be the best student that you could be. Now it is time for you to find the college which would be the best for you. So do some more in-depth research on these colleges (and on your matches and potential safeties), and decide which colleges would be the best colleges for you.

What are you looking for in a college? What type of student body, what type of environment, what type of geography? Do you want a larger school or a smaller school, a rural location, an urban location, or a suburban location? Do you want fellow students who are more liberal or more conservative, more laid back or more intense, more geeky or more preppy (well, at least kinda-preppy, they are engineers, after all), etc. Do you want larger classes and more independence, or smaller classes and more support and in-class interaction? Do you want access to a wider variety of research opportunities, or access to more opportunities of independent research?

These are the questions that you should be thinking of now, and use them to decide which will be your top choices among your reaches, matches, and to determine what will be your safety/ies, and whether you will apply REA/ED to any college (and which).