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Reach (lowest percent to highest in each section):
Cal tech
MIT
Duke
Yale
Stanford
Princeton
Harvard
UCLA
UPenn
Columbia
Hard Target:
Brown
Northwestern
Johns Hopkins
Vanderbilt
Georgia Tech
Georgetown
UMich
UNC Chapel Hill
Target:
UT Austin
UF
Safety:
Virginia Tech
Ohio State
Penn State
Pitt
Tennessee
WVU
I’m a freshman, so I have time to write all of those essays. I plan on majoring in Biomedical Engineering as my first choice and Aerospace/Aeronautical Engineering as my second choice (I might double major, but I can worry about that later). I also plan on minoring in music. All of the schools on this list have at least one of the majors, except for Princeton, so I might apply for Biology.
Obviously these is a lot of colleges and the list is pretty top heavy, but I was wondering if there were any more schools that u could add? My Target and Safety sections are pretty small, so if y’all could give me suggestions I would appreciate it. My only guideline is that the program is nationally recognized, there are undergraduate research opportunities, and that there is a good culture (God forbid my safeties doesn’t have a good D1 football team).
I’d prefer to stay on the East coast, nothing west of the Mississippi.
As a freshman - you really can't figure out your reach,target, safety yet -because you don't have much of a GPA.
Also -your 'Hard Target' list are typically Reaches for everyone -- Brown? Vand, Johns Hopkins, UMichigan, GT are reaches. Honestly, anything with a 10% or less acceptance rate is a REACH for everyone ---including 4.0 GPA students with perfect ACT/SAT scores.
I appreciate your drive (!) but 1) give yourself some time to enjoy High School 2) develop a broader Target list --because otherwise you'll be like the kids on Reddit that are crying because they didn't get in anywhere but their safeties. And honestly -some of those safeties? Probably targets. Safeties should have 80% (85%) or greater admission rate.
Yeah, on one hand I get that, but on the other, I’m at the top of my class in the best school in my state (it’s a low income state), I’m the best freshmen in the state for the instrument that I play, I’m doing cancer research and I’ve created a startup worth over 15k. So I know that what i’m doing is hard, but at the same time, it’s not too hard to manage a social life on top of it.
I would look for some more targets because you only have two.
Your chance of acceptance
Your chancing factors
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