@lostaccount LOL Legacy?? Are you kidding me? Lol’d. Wealthy parents? If you call middle class 130k family income wealthy, then you must be right. My parents graduated from India schools, just fyi. And all of the waitlists alone should tell you that I am qualified for these schools. That is what the waitlist means. It is for people who are qualified but not as qualified as those accepted, but the next go-to kids for the university. Yale waitlists still puts me in to 10-12% of Yale applicants, as does Columbia’s or Penn’s most likely.
And just for your information, I was accepted at Duke and JHU BME as well, but the same issue applies to Duke, and JHU is good for BME, but I recently discovered that job prospects for BME are not too great in general, especially for going into pure CS (which I am much more interested in).