<p>Was anyone you know who is top 5 in school rejected from these schools?
H = Harvard
Y = Yale
P = Princeton
S = Stanford
M = MIT
C = Caltech</p>
<p>Yes. In some cases, all 6. In the end, your high school class rank is just a number like your SAT scores, and becomes meaningless once at college.</p>
<p>then what will be the safe colleges except the 6?</p>
<p>sorry, I think I phrased my question incorrectly:</p>
<p>Anyone you know APPLIED to ALL of the 6 schools and got REJECTED from every single one of them?
I thought there is a high possibility for a competitive student for getting into at least one of the 6 six. It would really suck if the competitive student got all 6 rejection letters.</p>
<p>Yes again. All six rejections letters. And he was a very smart kid, with many accomplishments. It happens. And it’s not really very predictable either. Every applicant is different, it’s not like there’s a common scale to measure each one by. I have a friend who was accepted to Harvard and UPenn, and yet was rejected by Brown and Columbia. </p>
<p>There are no guarantees with those six schools. Just get your applications done to the best of your ability, and try not to think about it until December/April.</p>
<p>It’s your job to research safe colleges.</p>
<p>i think that happens almost every year. Maybe one, two in a good year, of the top 20 gets into one of those schools.</p>
<p>Yes,you are right.
Good luck to everyone.</p>