Differentiating between reach, match, and safety

danas
Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:32:10 +0000

I sympathize.
Very, very roughly, if you have an accomplishment in the top dozen or so on some dimension in the country, you are a good candidate at HYPSM. If not, apply anyway.
Almost anywhere else, worth the price of an application fee.
My daughter’s best high school days friend had a 1600 on the (two part) SAT and a 35 ACT, and straight "A"s in the Chicago Public Schools. She was admitted to Harvard, Yale and the University of Chicago (with full tuition scholarship there). She attended and graduated from Yale. I’m guessing that her accomplishments as a ballet student may have been overestimated, but that she would have been admitted to one or more likely two regardless.
A smart person, as you are.