Chance me pls! 🙏 HYPSM + other schools [4.0 GPA, 1540 SAT, physics major]

[thumper1]

@e_w_13

I certainly need to have targets and safeties as well, but picking those is more tricky since I haven’t really heard much about them and need to research.

I would suggest that you find two sure things for admission, that you like, that are affordable. Find those now. It’s easy to find elite schools…not so easy to find those sure things. So…find them…NOW.

You are a very strong student, and certainly have a chance of admission at your very top heavy list of colleges. But so are the vast majority of applicants to these colleges.

Please read the thread I’m about to link. It’s older, and admissions have only become MORE competitive. This student was a top student, NMF, excellent ECs, LOR, GPA…the works. No one expected that he would be shut out everywhere he applied his senior year of high school…but that is what happened. He did land on his feet after a well crafted gap year, but his senior year of high school was not a happy time. You don’t want to be in this position. 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…