What are my Chances??? Ivies!??!?!

Community2605
Wed, 01 Jul 2015 11:18:22 +0000

My son is Yale '19 so we just came off our experience at the college application thing. Our experience was very educational. He is midwestern, white and male (obvi) and some would say those are anti-hooks, you know? He was accepted at 2 Ivys (YP) but got several rejections/waitlists from those non-Ivy, highly selective schools like many that you mention. Someone here on CC suggested that schools like those know that top students will get better offers on Ivy day, so it makes more sense for them to reject those that they know won’t come and they don’t want to mess up their yield statistics for their US News and WR rankings. I’ll tell you that you have fine chances (but as MegaMetalHead said - those schools are reaches for everyone) but it might not mean that you won’t face some rejection. Don’t let your ego get too wrapped up in it or it can make for a discouraging March.