chances for an 08er // doing 4 EAs

JustinTime
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:27:46 +0000

Well the school awards sure won’t do much when there are only 61 people in the class (speaking about the AMC and AP USH awards). But your GPA and standardized test scores are good enough so that you’re not at a disadvantage even at your biggest reaches. Of course, being an Asian male, you will need amazing recs and essays to have a shot at Harvard, Dartmouth, Amherst, or Williams. All of the other places, though, you have a very solid chance at. Middlebury is a nice match for you, and Cornell and Northwestern are good as very slight reaches.

You might want to think more about small LACs vs. big universities though, as the 13,000 undergrads at Cornell is quite a contrast from those LACs.