<p>At this time of year, a lot of colleges (including my alma mater) are giving “on the spot” admission to strong applicants. This is a great time of year to get your application in to your safety college, before you apply to Princeton.</p>
<p>ohh, good to know, too bad i still need to write my essay</p>
<p>Reaches (in order of preference) : PRINCETONNNN, Dartmouth, Columbia, MIT
Matches: Carleton, Pomona, Vassar, Wesleyan, Berkeley
Safeties: Vanderbilt, UCSD, UCLA</p>
<p>i thought pomona is just as competitive as dartmouth?</p>
<p>Pomona is indeed just as selective as Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Does everyone have an application in to the safety college yet?</p>
<p>One more bump of this thread before the main EA deadlines pass. (I assume you won’t apply ED anywhere if you really think you have a shot at getting into Princeton.) Line up your safety, and then breathe easier during the weeks before Princeton’s application deadline.</p>
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<p>Finally someone speaks the truth. </p>
<p>Also, Mudd is just as selective as Pomona, if not slightly more selective. Yet it’s also mentioned in this thread.</p>
<p>Safeties: Boston University, Bucknell</p>
<p>Other safeties I considered but am not applying to: Case Western Reserve University, U of Rochester, U Mich, Ohio State</p>
<p>In other news, a Princeton rep is coming to my school in like an hour! Yay!</p>
<p>And it’s funny how some naive people I talk to think Princeton is much easier to get into than Yale and Harvard. They ask, “So where are you going to college?” I say “I’d like to go to Princeton, but it is so unbelievably difficult to get in there, so who knows?” They reply, “Wow! Well, at least it isn’t as bad as Yale or Harvard or something like that.” Then I laugh.</p>
<p>Safeties: UVA, W&M, and Rice.
Matches: Dartmouth, Swarthmore, Duke, and Middlebury.
Reaches: Princeton, Harvard, Yale. </p>
<p>This is all according to my CGC, and I do what she says, so those are the colleges I’m applying to. Yes, I know all my Matches and Safeties are ridiculously hard to get into. But I like them and would be a good fit there, and my CGC says I’ll get in, soo… I’m not going to object (:</p>
<p>Reaches: MIT, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia
Matches: JHU
Safeties: Tufts, Carnegie-Mellon</p>
<p>According to a variety of resources.</p>
<p>I was unofficially accepted to my safety the other day via a likely letter! (UNC Chapel Hill) So glad it is out of the way. Now I can focus on my really huge reaches :/</p>
<p>reaches: williams, princeton, harvard, yale, duke
matches: uva, vanderbilt, washu
safeties: emory and uga (in state)</p>
<p>Safety: Penn State, Accepted
Others applied to: Duke, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Penn, Cornell, Northwestern</p>
<p>Reaches: Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Stanford
Matches: Dartmouth, Georgetown, Middlebury, Pomona, Berkeley
Safeties: UVA (Double-Legacy Out of State), Colgate, NYU, Vassar</p>
<p>tongchen1226…Columbia is a match for no one…you do realize the CC admit rate was 8.9% 10.4% when including SEAS. lol, ok dude. These are comparable to HYP in fact lower then P-Town… SATs are slightly lower, but CU looks for different things (read unpredictable)</p>
<p>Columbia has a lower acceptance rate, but it is less *selective<a href=“the%20best%20measure%20of%20selectivity%20is%20student%20quality%20–%20SAT%20scores,%20etc.”>/i</a>.</p>
<p>And back to the person who had rice as a safety
It is more selective than all the matches</p>
<p>safeties: university of connecticut (uber safety), carnegie mellon, university of rochester</p>
<p>Since when were places like Tufts, Vanderbilt, RICE, Carnagie, Pomona considered safeties?</p>