"Standing out" (also a "chance me")

Poseidenj
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:36:35 +0000

being a twin is not a hook
Your ECs are pretty generic, and to me they look stacked
You’re a white male from Massachusetts

To be quite frank, in my opinion anyone applying to more than 10 schools…well, shouldn’t apply to more than 10 schools. Maybe it’s just a peeve, I dunno, but based on your stats (which I’m not denying aren’t good, but plenty of people have great stats nowadays :p) you will get into at least a few of these schools, though, since most of them are top schools you never know.

Cornell- your legacy puts you in IMO, to whatever of their schools you wanted.
Tulane- above their 75ths for everything.
WUSTL- I know people with worse stats who got in, though, they were a URM.
Georgetown- if your uncle is a prominent professor, yes.
Johns hopkins- I know people with worse stats who got it.

Narrow it down, and I don’t care if you’re the top “1000” applicants in the country, you need a state safety on there.