Pls suggest 2 each for reaches, targets, safeties for this student

[Anonymous]

Haverford, Wellesley, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell Tech, Barnard, Drexel

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Anonymous wrote:Some of this depends on whether she is interested in ED/REA. Some of these schools take a lot of kids in early rounds.

Reach - brown, northwestern, Vanderbilt, Pomona

Ed2 if willing washu

Target: William and Mary, Wesleyan

Likely: macalester, Carleton, haverford, Bryn mawr

No to swat and Chicago

OP: which ones give an advantage in ED/EA?

DD doesn’t plan to do Yale/ Brown type schools that some posters suggested above for EA/ED. She’s a very mature, rational kid. She knows as an unhooked applicant, her chance of an Ivy is very low, so she doesn’t want to waste an ED/EA on Yale/Princeton (no interest in Harvard) type school and end up having worse odds in RD at a school she could had a higher chance getting in early.

Vandy takes half the class ED1 or Ed2(w big advantage being ED1) Emory also takes a lot. Washu also big advantage and middlebury.

At our top dc private the kids who get in those places - and northwestern annd Wesleyan are almost all ED1 or sometimes ED2.

In the later rounds those schools get all the unhooked kids who were deferred from Yale/brown early so a tougher pool and at the same time they’re trying to round out the class.

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Reach: Rice!!! Yale, Pomona, Georgetown, Notre Dame

Targets: BC, BU, tufts

Safety: holy cross, trinity, GW, American, McGill

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Are Yale and Brown known for chemistry?

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Anonymous wrote:- Ideal small to medium-sized interdisciplinary college in a city or suburb
- chemistry major, also wants to take classes in AI and applied math
- wants high exposure to professors and research opportunities
- has strived in high rigor environment but doesn’t want the kind of place where fun goes to die or everyone is studying for grades
- collaborative, highly intellectual culture where students love learning, not all about jockeying for IB connections or the next IPO opportunity
- Female, unhooked, non URM, from a top private, full pay, quiet nerdy but has lot of friends
- 1580, 3.88 from a school that’s known for rigor/doesn't grade inflate (no one gets a 4.0), decent ECs (STEM leadership, part time job year round, volunteer year round, some regional math and writing awards)

I love how every post feels compelled to point out that their private school does not inflate grades. The fact is, virtually all schools do, private or public.

Cathedral famously does not. Her description sounds very much like NCS.

[Anonymous]

- Ideal small to medium-sized interdisciplinary college in a city or suburb
- chemistry major, also wants to take classes in AI and applied math
- wants high exposure to professors and research opportunities
- has strived in high rigor environment but doesn’t want the kind of place where fun goes to die or everyone is studying for grades
- collaborative, highly intellectual culture where students love learning, not all about jockeying for IB connections or the next IPO opportunity
- Female, unhooked, non URM, from a top private, full pay, quiet nerdy but has lot of friends
- 1580, 3.88 from a school that’s known for rigor/doesn't grade inflate (no one gets a 4.0), decent ECs (STEM leadership, part time job year round, volunteer year round, some regional math and writing awards)

Reaches: Wellesley (it can be intense, but plenty of students spend every weekend in Boston and socialize with college students on other Boston area campuses); Pomona/Harvey Mudd

Targets: Carleton; Reed
Likelies: Bryn Mawr; Macalester

[Anonymous]

Reach: Rice, WashU
Target: W&M (would get Monroe), Carleton
Likely: Bryn Mawr, St. Olaf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- Ideal small to medium-sized interdisciplinary college in a city or suburb
- chemistry major, also wants to take classes in AI and applied math
- wants high exposure to professors and research opportunities
- has strived in high rigor environment but doesn’t want the kind of place where fun goes to die or everyone is studying for grades
- collaborative, highly intellectual culture where students love learning, not all about jockeying for IB connections or the next IPO opportunity
- Female, unhooked, non URM, from a top private, full pay, quiet nerdy but has lot of friends
- 1580, 3.88 from a school that’s known for rigor/doesn't grade inflate (no one gets a 4.0), decent ECs (STEM leadership, part time job year round, volunteer year round, some regional math and writing awards)

I love how every post feels compelled to point out that their private school does not inflate grades. The fact is, virtually all schools do, private or public.

Cathedral famously does not. Her description sounds very much like NCS.

2 of my kids went to NCS and I agree. OP, ask the CCO for guidance here. They will help her identify the right school for ED. I agree with previous suggestions that Rice sounds like a great fit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:- Ideal small to medium-sized interdisciplinary college in a city or suburb
- chemistry major, also wants to take classes in AI and applied math
- wants high exposure to professors and research opportunities
- has strived in high rigor environment but doesn’t want the kind of place where fun goes to die or everyone is studying for grades
- collaborative, highly intellectual culture where students love learning, not all about jockeying for IB connections or the next IPO opportunity
- Female, unhooked, non URM, from a top private, full pay, quiet nerdy but has lot of friends
- 1580, 3.88 from a school that’s known for rigor/doesn't grade inflate (no one gets a 4.0), decent ECs (STEM leadership, part time job year round, volunteer year round, some regional math and writing awards)

UChicago, Columbia, Emory, Rice, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Georgetown

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Anonymous wrote:Reaches: Brown, Yale, Harvey Mudd, Stanford (stay away from Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn, Harvard, Duke).

Targets: Hamilton, Haverford, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Bates, Davidson, Wake, W&M

Safeties: Beloit, St. Olaf, Denison, Kenyon, Colby

(Given stats and a small elite private school, these targets are different than what many would suggest for a public school student).

Colby is not a safety, and it’s in the middle of nowhere.

Colby is 100% a safety for this kid from a strong private. They will take down to a 3.4 or so from ours. My kid was one of them this year.

Colby takes the lower 1/3 of our private too.

How many were ED? How do you think Colby maintains that low admit rate? They don’t produce a CDS but I suspect they are heavy in ED and savage in RD.

Colby will take lower 1/3 in RD. My kid was one of them. Middlebury is the same. My kid got in RD off the waitlist this year and hadn't even submitted a LOCI which was shocking to us.

These small LACs (just beneath WASP) really, really, like kids (from
any place in the class) from some top private schools.

[Anonymous]

Tulane
Wash U
Boston College
Villanova
Fordham
Pitt
Providence
DePaul
Loyola MD

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Anonymous wrote:Tulane
Wash U
Boston College
Villanova
Fordham
Pitt
Providence
DePaul
Loyola MD

Other than Wash U, this list is safeties for OP's kid. In fact, kid would likely get full tuition at Villanova (if she could convince them she would accept), Fordham, etc. Be serious.

[Anonymous]

Villanova is not giving her full
Tuition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tulane
Wash U
Boston College
Villanova
Fordham
Pitt
Providence
DePaul
Loyola MD

Other than Wash U, this list is safeties for OP's kid. In fact, kid would likely get full tuition at Villanova (if she could convince them she would accept), Fordham, etc. Be serious.

Boston College requires you to ED1 or ED2 from the top privates. At my DC's Big3 this year they took down to a 3.6 in the ED rounds but the high 3.8's were waitlisted RD and then denied. My child was one of these (denied with a 3.9 RD) and there were several of others (all who applied at this point).
You NEED to pick them early on.

[Anonymous]

If she’s open to women’s colleges, I think Smith could be a good fit and realistic target.