College list and ranking schools

missacademy2018
Sun, 30 Jul 2017 01:01:50 +0000

OK, so I realized that the tier system isn’t really the same as reach/match/safety because it fails to account for selectivity. I looked back at my notes from my first college advisement session last year, and according to what I was told then, a safety school has a 75% or higher acceptance rate. But what halfway decent four-year school has an acceptance rate of 75% these days? Even CUNY York College, where the average admit has an 84 GPA and a three-digit SAT score, has a 37% acceptance rate. (That was among my safety schools before I realized there was no point in applying to a place I hated and was overqualified for.) Every school on that list has an admit rate of under 50%.

My reason for qualifying the schools based on academic stats was that, for example, at Howard, which has a 49% acceptance rate, I’d conceivably have a better shot at being admitted with a 97/1490 than someone with an 85/1000. If your SAT score is 1000, a schools that typically accepts 1200s is a reach for you, but if your SAT score is 1400, you’re way more likely to be admitted. Is this an incorrect assumption? Is it really all about acceptance rate?

@Wilson98 Visited Rochester. Not going to bother applying to it or any place like it, regardless of how prestigious the school is.

@Penn95 I’m applying to Penn (and Columbia and Yale) through the Questbridge National College Match. It’s like ED, except with multiple schools and a guaranteed full four-year scholarship if admitted.

@twoinanddone “What if you like Syracuse more than Penn just because you like the area better” I don’t. Went on a tour of Penn, visited Philly multiple times before that, just came back from a month away at SU.
“or the big name sports” Don’t care.
“or the dorms” I don’t.
I did rank the schools according to my own personal preference before I put them in tiers. There is some correlation between tier and rank, but not necessarily causation.