Reach-for-anyone schools

Catria
Sun, 21 Oct 2012 21:35:07 +0000

Since I’m seeing a lot of threads about applicants applying to schools that are so competitive even qualified applicants with great ECs get rejected from there, I think it is best to identify them.

Here’s a preliminary list of “reach-for-anyone” schools:

Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Stanford
Johns Hopkins
MIT
CalTech
US Military Academy
US Air Force Academy
US Naval Academy
US Coast Guard Academy
US Merchant Marine Academy
Swarthmore
Amherst
Washington U in St. Louis
Pomona College
Williams College
Vanderbilt
Duke
UPenn
Brown
Dartmouth
Cornell
Columbia
Bowdoin
Olin
UChicago
Claremont McKenna
UNC-Chapel Hill (out-of-state only)