Rank My possible College choices

College Search & Lists
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Okay so in terms of the full picture, everything taken into consideration, where would you go out of my choices? Rank them in order:

Oxford (offer for Economics and Management)
UCLA (acceptance for Pre-Economics)
Harvard (waiting)
Stanford (waiting)
Yale (waiting)

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1.Harvard
2.Stanford
3.Oxford
4.Yale
5.UCLA

All are excellent but IMHO if you get into the top 4 your a genius :wink: BTW dude what are your Stats?

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What stats do you mean? I’m from the UK so not sure if you’re familiar with GCSEs and A Levels if you mean those?

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@CHughes96‌ Yeah

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@10thgrader‌ at GCSE I got 5As 4As, at A Level I have 1A taken early and predicted 4 more A*s at the end of this year. My SAT wasn’t very good at all but I explained in my interviews that I decided to apply to the US on the deadline for registering for the SAT, so I’d had no practice for it. I got 2050. However, my interviews and essays went pretty well and Oxford said that my interview was exceptional when I had that, so hopefully that saves me and I get an offer from at least one of the three I’m waiting on!

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SAT 2050 is not bad as you have got really got good grades to make up for it, don’t forget that the mentioned schools are the very best of the world, i wouldn’t be surprised if you get into at least two of them though :smile:

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Thanks, we’ll have to wait and see!

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anyone else?

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  1. Oxford
  2. UCLA

Unless or until you are accepted, the rank order of the other three do not matter. Besides, rank order is not a meaningful way to compare Stanford, Yale, and Harvard. If you have a specific area of focus it might help to differentiate between the three. For example, if you want to study engineering them Stanford, and UCLA, will rank ahead of Yale and Harvard. Also, what type of environment do you prefer? The environment, attitude/lifestyle/weather/ etc, are quite different at Stanford then at Yale/Harvard.

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This is a meaningless exercise.These are all highly regarded universities. The best choice for you depends on many personal factors such as:

  • net cost after aid (if any) and your family’s budget
  • intended major (Stanford is stronger than the others for engineering and CS; Harvard may be a little stronger than the others for some social science fields, Yale for some humanities fields, etc.)
  • your personal preferences for all sorts of things such as region, setting, climate, campus architecture, etc.

For economics I doubt there is very much difference among Harvard, Yale and Stanford at the undergraduate level.
Your specific program/course choices and the effort you put into your work would outweigh any marginal quality differences. I don’t know about Oxford. I’d expect larger classes at UCLA especially at the intro and intermediate levels.