The biggest thing you can do to boost your chances for T20 admissions is to expand your definition of “T20”. I’ve always thought that there are probably 30-40 T20 colleges and universities and it pays to familiarize yourself with them now, before you get too caught up in the “hurry up and wait” of the traditional admissions cycle. Get a leg up on colleges you may never have heard of, colleges like Hamilton in Upstate New York (beautiful campus in a bucolic part of the northeast); Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, VA (physically imposing university campus with first-rate offerings in STEM); Washington University, in St. Louis (often confused with UWashington, but really an Ivy-lookalike, judging from the architecture); Grinnell College (another academically impeccable LAC, but in the Midwest.) There are a lot, lot more, eleven are in the New England Small College (NESCAC) Conference alone:
NESCAC Spoken Here: - College Search & Selection - College Confidential Forums
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