Denied at almost every school...

Alexandre
Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:15:55 +0000

You had very poor advice KochAndPepsi. Anybody who says that Stanford is “a bit of a reach” is delusional. Even valedictorians with 2250+ on the SAT and a slew of 800s on the SAT IIs should consider Stanford a major reach. UNC OOS would be considered a straight out reach and UVa a match. I realize that a hispanic female engineer is in high demand, but that will not alter things as much as some people would lead you to believe.

The only school on your list that was a safety was V Tech. You should have applied to one more safety and to 2-3 more matches and reaches.