Please Rank My List

advantagious
Wed, 30 May 2007 12:20:19 +0000

I think your list looks great. As others have said, WUStL is pretty tough these days, but I do think that interest has a lot to do with it…if you show them that you really want to come and aren’t just responding to their mass mailings, you will be ahead of a lot of people. Carleton and UChicago are in the high match/low reach category…you seem very competitive, but can’t walk in. The rest seem very likely to take you…I can’t make guarantees, but from bare stats, you are plenty qualified and will very very very likely be admitted to all.

The first three schools are competitive enough that they can be plenty picky with who they choose. I know someone with very strong stats who was denied from UChicago, for example, because the pool is very competitive and certain “red flags” (poor ecs, dropping a class/classes, etc.) were serious detriments to his application, even with probably a top 3% rank and 33 ACT.