Stats favored over ECs

dearsiryes
Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:13:29 +0000

Amherst is, on the whole, NOT a High Stat favored place. This does not mean that they don’t take students with top scores; rather, many students who get into Amherst are the consummate all’rounders, same with Swarthmore, and much less so with Williams.

By high stats, I hope we are talking about the same thing(s). Top 3-4% of the class, 2350+ SAT combined score, 5-6 APs (or more) with scores of 5 and the two SAT IIs of 770+. Those numbers, along with a mediocre EC record of some volunteering and some school club participation could give you a solid shot at:

Rice, Penn, Dartmouth, Brown and Duke.