Chance Me Please? 8-9 Schools!!!

vinceh
Sat, 29 May 2010 09:48:04 +0000

Stanford - Reach for everyone. You’re an average candidate for a school that admits about 7.5% of applicants.

MIT - Reach. Good news, females get admitted at more than twice the rate as males (17% vs 8%). Bad news, you’re Math SAT is barely above the 25th%tile.

Penn, Cornell, Duke, Rice and JHU: Match because your stats are 50th%tile or slightly better. Reach because all those schools have admit rates less than 25%, (except JHU which is around 28%). Female in engineering should help.

GT - Safety. You’re 75th%tile stats-wise for a school with a 60%+ admit rate.

You’re a strong candidate, you’re just swimming in pools with fish of equal or bigger size. My guess: In at Texas & GT, In at 1 - 3 of PCDRJ and an outside shot at MIT. If the cold weather isn’t an issue, you might want to consider Carnegie-Mellon, basically the same stats as JHU but slightly higher admit rate.